Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-01-10
FOURTEEN DROWNED
WOrkmen Crushed Under TOnp
 of Stone and Timber.
IN A CA1ssoN.
The Massive Structure Gave Way Burying
 ing the Mon Under the Waves.

SOmbody Opened the Ar Shaft-Tho Men
 Working in all Ugly Quioksand When
 They Were Overwhelmed-The Gang
 Boss Censured by the Negroes Who Es-
 caped-Names of the Killed.
 LOUISVILLE, Ky, Jan. 1O.-Fourteen men were drowned at 6 o'clock last evening by the rising of water In a caisson of the now bridge across the Ohio, connecting Louisville and effer- sonville.
 The caisson at which the accident oo- cured is about one hundred yards from the Kentucky shore, and was built by Messrs. Suoy. Smith & Co.,, of New York, who are the bridge contractors. It was time to knock of rests, and some of the laborers had started in a barge for the shore, leaving eighteen men in the caisson.
 The caisson was sunk in about 35 feet of water and was : feet high. It had two pipes leading to the air. one through which the excavated material was sent out and the other for the passage of the mon.
 A Rush for the Air Shaft.
 The men in the caisson, just as they were preparing to leave, heard the rush of escaping air from the caisson. Ono of the doors of the air shaft had been left open.
 Robert Baldwin was in charge of the latter, but it is said that Knox, the foreman, who was drowned, had given him some other duty which took him away from the shaft. As the air es- capped the water rushed into the caisson from the bottom and rapidly filled the compartment.
 The men made 8 rush for the air r1, %l,~ T to the surface of the water, nearly 30 feet above. The men in the barge had been notified of the accident by the squirting of tho water through the ris- ing of air shaft.
 They pulled back to recue as many as possible, and succeeded in getting into their barge the four who had como through tie shaft. Ths latter were Abe Taylor, Louis Couch, James Murray and Frank Hoddix, all colored. Buried Under the Waves. The remaining fourteen were over | whelmed by the water and were Frank HoddiX was the last man out. He said he was at work digging for the pier excavation when he heard the rush of escaping ar.
 He ran for the ladder which led to | the top, and found the other three who | time he got to them the water reached | to his waist. Murray, who was just l ahead of him. reached back, grasped | him and pulled him out. Ham Morris was just behind him on the ladder, and he saw him overtaken and buried be- | meath the water.
 l The negroes who escaped say that l Knox dug too deep before allowing the caisson to settle. He also, they say, l gave Baldwin, the shaft tender, orders to leave the upper door of the air pipe | open, and that was the cause of the ac- l cident.
 l None of the bodies have been recov- | cred Work was at once begun pump l ing out the caisson.
 List of the Killed
 The following are the names of the men killed:
 White-William E. Haynes. Louis. vile; John Knox, Louisville; James McAdams, Hyde Park, Pa.; Frank Ma har, New Jersey; Patrick Naylor,, Phil adelphia.
 Colored-A. Thomas. Monroe Bow ling, Charles Chiles, Thomas Johnson, Joseph Gordon. Hamilton Morris Thomas Smith, Frank Soaper, Rober Tyler.
 | All the colored men lived in Hender