Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-01-10
Horrors From Storm and
Flood.
THIRTEEN WORKERS ON 4 BRIDGE
Caught in a CaisSOn and Drowned Like
Rats.
BROOKLYN CHURCH WALL FALLS
And a Tenement House Crushed BY the
Tumbling Ruins - Two Families
Buried in the Debris---Two In
stantly Killed and Several
Badly Injured.

LOUISVILLE, KY, January 9.-Tfe
most appalling accident known here in
many years occurred this evening about
o'clock at the new bridge nov uuder cor
struction between Louisville and Jtfler-
sonyille. A caisson gave way, aud tire
workmen employed on il have been drowned
or crushed beneath by stones and timbers.
Toe caissop, known as No. !, was about one
hundred yards from the Ke=tucky shore.
As the wotkmen Of the pumping station
were looking for the men in the caieson,
to put of in their boats, leaving work for
the night, they suddenly saw the low
dark structure disappear, dashing white
waves, and heard, before they could real
ize Whist had happened, the roar Of the
furious maelstrom. A runner was des-
patched to the hfssaving station, and
three skiffs wers manned and pulled 10
the scsne of the wreck.
Word was sent to the police station and
a squad was st once ordered 70 the ground
10 aid in the work Of rttcne The Coroner
was called and went with q corps Of physi-
cians. The site of the bddge is at the
uupss end of the city, Just below Tow
Head Hand. Within m hour from the
disappearance Of the eaiseoU three thou
sand people were ON the shore strsining
their eyes trying u see something OF the
wreckage.
THIRTEEN CRUSHED TO DEATH.
Corrected reports show the following
list Of killed. Hayes William E., 40
years, Louisville; Kucx John, % years,
McAdsms Jsmts, 26 years, Hyde Park,
Pa; Massr Frank, 26 veers, New jersey
Nayior, Hal, 81 years, Philadelphia; Ash,
Thomas, 80 years, colored, Henderson,,
Ky Bowling, ~ cJlorfd, "a years, Hen
deuou, KY; Cbilss, Charles, coored, 80
years Henderson, KY.; Johnson. Thomas,
colored, 80 years, Henderson, Ky. Cor
don, Joseph, cnlortd, % yesrs, Henderson,
Ky Morris, II ,miltcn, Henderson, Ky;
smith, Thomas, - years, Henderson, Ky
Soapsr, Frank, colored, % wears, Hender-
son, KY Tyler, Robert, 16 years, Hen
dersou, Ky.
The men faved are all coloIed, ~ followe:
Abe Tsppler Lewis OOch and Frank II.
Haddock, all Of Henderson. KY.
STORY OF A SURVIVOR
Tapple says he s,oOd nearest the iron
ladder by which they got in and out OF the
csisson. He heard a rumbling and
there was rush of air almost at the
same instant. He jumped up the rugs Of
the ladder, followed by the other men.
They had hardly got clear Of the Ca'sson
when the water brust through tho man
hole ia a surge, knocking them all into
the river where they we're picked mp.
Hsddock says he saw H. Morris, who WIS
pfxt below him. swiftly drawn
under ny the aend ard heard bis c'its for
help, but could do nothing.
NO HOPE FOR THE MEN
The cassion is not wrecked ~ ct hrs,
supposed. hut has settled down 10 the bed
of the stream, completely filled with sand
and water. The pumping station II hsrd at
work clearing the wafer for The hodies but
uone will be reached tonight. There
seems absolutely no hope for any OF these
caught within the calseon. John Knox,
gang boss, took charge OF the work Monday.
the negroes who escapef say be he'd them
dig 100 deep before the caisson settifd, and
the digging was too close 20 the shore Of
the caisson. Just before the accideLt
Knox gave come order TO Robert Baldwin,
the keeper in charge of the upper door TO
the exit Baldwin then opened this
door, and the compressed air which kept
out the river rushed out, lettipg IN the
stream. The men say they were working
in an ungly q1icksand at the time.