The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-06-21
NO W AIMING
Given the Many Victims OF
Their Impending Doom.
Sudden Collapse of the False Work
of Bridge
Building Between covington
and Newport, Ky.
FoRTY-FlvE MEN BUslLY AT WORK
AT THE TIME.
ONLY TWO KNOWN TO HAVE Es-
ONLY TWO KNOWN TO HAVE Es.
CAPPED WITHOUT INJURY

After the Plunge of FIrty Feet Into the
Licking River Where Their Comrades
Were Either Drowned or Crushed to
Death-Not a stick OF the False Work
Extending One Hundred Feet from
Pierts Pier Remained After the Acct
dent-Doth the Contractors Among this
Dead
CINCINNATI, June ia terrible ac-
cident by. which probably forty lost
their lives and a number of others were
| injured occurred Wednesday morning
about 1890 o'clock on the new bridge
being built over the Licking river be-
tween CovinSton and Newport. Ky.
The bridge is being constructed for
the kenton and Campbell County Land
company.
1t was begun last fail. and two spans
one hundred feet in length had been
completed
Forty-five men were on the false
work putting in the iron braces for the
floor, when suddenly, without warming.
the entire structure gave way, carrying
the men down with it. But two men
lives.
All Went.
Not stick of the false work. from
pier to pier, remained, and the river
was filled with tiInbers and iron work
with scores of men struggling for life.
News of the terrible accident spread
rapidly, and soon a crowd of hundreds
had gathered and the work of rescuing
the bodies was at once begun.
Mostly Strangers.
The men Were for the greater part
strangers who had no near connections
in Covingtou, and there was notice
able lack of the scenes which are usually
made when the notwithstanding intelli-
gence of the death of a relative by acci-
dent is received.
Cause of the Accident.
The horrible calamity is due directly
to the recent heavy rains.
The traveller was full seventy feet
high, and the false work fully sixty
three feet high.
At the time of the accident the men
We're working about fifty feet above the
water
AT the place where the disaster oc-
CURED the Licking Is about one hundred
yards wide. The new bridge has two
piers, one on each bank, and the iron
span leading from the street In Coying-
tom to the pier had been practically COM
pleted.
This span was not injured by the
collapse of the false work.
Many of the men killed were fright.
fully disigured. One of the victims
taken out on the Covington side was
horrible object. A hole had been made
through the chest into his lungs, his
skull was crushed and blood spurted
from his eye ears and mouth. He lived
for some minutes in great agony.
Killed.
Andrew Baird, Pittsburg.
Robert Bird, Pittsburg.
Billy Allen, top Bird -eman.
Jack Ruby, thirty lone, married, Thorn
ton street, Newport.
Will Ruby, twenty-five, Thornton
street, Newport.
Charley Champau, foreman, Canada.
boards ON Thornton street.
Billy IVES ling, carpenter, Newport.
Dick German, carpenter.
Thomas Downing, III Monmouth
street, Newport.
Dick Sponsor, Covington.
Fred Brent, ironworker.
Charles Droneck, 512 West Eleventh
street, Newport
Jim johnson, ironworlrer, boards in
Newport.
n. w. Burton, ironworl5er.
Dennis Harlow, ironworker.
u. Z. Phelps, ironworlEer, boarded in
Newport.
in Newport
B. Thomas, Pittsburg, carpenter.
William Wilson, inspector, l59 East
Twelfth, Covington.
Thomas Burke.
Charles Gresham, 14S Linn street,
Covington.
Fred Pierce.
Frank Shoiner, Parkersbu-g.
William Harion, Jeffersonviiie, Ind,
drowned.
Road Touvill, Jeffersonyille, Ind.
Dan Arnold.
Vaughn Adams, Cincinnati.
Charles Stamper, Covington.
Joseph SoulSer, Cincinnati.
L. Mure, Newport.
William Avis, Wheeling.
- Culbertson, Portsmouth, o.
Thomas Rardon.
- 'Brien, Louisville.
Three unknown, at A. AIenninger's
undertaking establishment.
Injured.
l.. Z. Thomas, 121 Pike street. Coying-
ton, head and shoulders crushed.
i. b: Phelps, Newport, hip and head
+. Grouse, Newport arm and head
Charles Filters, IrontOn, o. back,
Escaped.
The two men who escaped without in
Murray Reardon.
Jim Caldwell.
Gamblers Tragic Death.