St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-16
LITTLE BEN'S BIG BURDEN.

sound, saw no excitement, only knew
that we were going down in heap. L
scrambled on some timbers, and some
one rescued me, and here am."
Hero of the Hour.
Charles Wilkerson is hero. His
home is in Louisville. KY, but he was
brought up on the Maumee river, near
Toledo. and mas lived at Buffalo and
other places on Lake Erie. He is at
home in water. His work was OH the
engine on the Newport approach. He
rushed to the rescue. He says the timbers
of the false work buckled down stream
and everything went down in a heap as
quickly as stone let fall from the top
of the works. WilkerSon saved many
lives of the wounded, then went to div
ing for the dead.
The first dead man he got was James
J. Johnson, of Havre De Grace. Md.
This man had brother injured at
Canova. WA, who has become insane
from his injuries received while work
ing for the Baird Brothers. He
had sued the Baird Brothers for
$4,000, and was here Oh the
bridge looking up testimony among
the men engaged in these works. Inc
next man Wilkerson recovered by div
ing was Andrew Baird, one of the con-
tractors who arrived here only TINS
morning. and was on the bridge with
his brother Robert inspecting the work.
He
Intended to Go Away
tonight. Robert has been here all
along experimenting the work. These
Bard Bros, by the way, were engaged
on the great bridge at Memphis, and
have had much experience in bridge
building. WilkersoE. after telling his
story, started for the river, saying: 81
am going to keep on diving" ana at
sunset he was zealously Keeping his
word.
There is one point in which all testi-
mony agrees, and that point is that the
fall was in the twinkling Of an eye, with
no warming. a point on which there is
no testimony is what caused the false
work to give way. There are
conjectures that the piliug was
not driven deeply enough III the
bottom of the river. But the
structure did not sink-lt snapped. One
thing is clear, it was not strong. though
it looked so. The wounded were scat
tered all over the three cities of Cincin-
matt. Covington and Newport, and
surgical attention was prompt. efficient
and amply sufficient.
There were sixty-eight persons on and
about the bridge when it fell. The
following is revised list of the killed,
injured and missing:
Dead.
CD. CHAMPION SEMPLE, of Boston.
THOMAS Down Wheeling, ". Va.
AN UNKNOWN about 20 years old.
h r. RoBY, brother of j. X. Roby, Gin
cinnati.
WILLIAM ALoIs, Ohio.
c. W. PFAFENBAeH, of Wheeling, ". Va.
DICK CoRMAN, Dolphina, Penn.
JOHN ADAMS. No. Walnut street. Gin
cinnati.
FRANK ADAMS No. Walnut street. Gin
ciunati.
RoBERr BAIRD, of 1922 Columbia street.
New port, Ky.
Robert.
CHARLES GRESHAM, Covington, Ky.
EDWARD SULLIVAN. Ludlow. KY.
JAMES JOHNSON. of Havere de Grace, Md.
DENNIS HARLOW, Parkersburg, W. Va.
Z. A. Nolan, Erie, Pa.
CHARLES STALL, Ironton, 0.
CHARLES TYRE, Michel. Ind.
WILLIAM BURTON, Pendleton.
PATRICK MURRAY, Greenbeyer. VIVA.
Injured.
DANIEL BR1NKLEY. twenty-one years old,
Hill Station. o., badly injured internally and
about the head and legs.
BRUCE THOMRL, Indianapolis, head cut and
right ankle spraned.
JOE AELING, Newport, KY, head, arms and
shoulders cut.
A German, nicknamed Shyhookds, name
unknown. head cut and right arm dislocated.
CHARLES II. WLKERsoN, Louisville, Ky
slightly bruised on shoulders.
Ben ARNOLD, NicholsYille., KY, shoulder
dislocated and head cut.
JOHN MURRAY, Newport, head cut and
right ear mangled.
WM. THOMAS, Xenia. Ohio, bruised slightly.
JOHN PHILLIPS, Newport, left leg broken
in three places below the knee; head cut
and terrible internal injuries; will die.
A WHITMAN, known as Rabbit Neinger-
sen, leg fractured and body bruised.
c. II. FETTERs. Ironton, o., left ankle
broke: flesh of right leg torn away at calf,
A. TEoAs, head cut.
j. 2. LYNCH, colored; internally injured
and leg broken.
WM. WILSON. Inspector of works; bruised
and cut about the head and body.
HARRY OSBORN, London, Eng; skull
crushed; will die.
FRANK WALLACE, injured about body.
THOMAS LAWN, Covlngton; head badly cut
and shoulders dislocated.
HENRY KRAMER Newport: head cut.
DAN HINKLEY, Newport; face and back
cut
s. H. NEAL, fgners and back hurt.
THOMAS X. RUSH, cut about the head.
Missing-MaItin Luther, Lagrange, KY;
Frank Mure. Newport. KY; George Burge.
Covington: ". Nessling Newport; Fred
Brait, 4s. Main street. Cincinnati; Dick
Adams, Cincinnati; n. Burton. Winchester.
Those who came out of the wreck mn
injured. as nearly as could be learned,
are: Murry Raierden and James Cald-
we'll. Others went to their homes and
could not be traced.