Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-16

false work buckled down stream and every
thing went Gown into a heap as quickly as
stone let fall from the top of the works.
wilkerson saved many lives of the
wounded, then went to diving for the dead
The first dead man he got was James J.
johnson, of Havre de Grace, Maryland.
This man had brother injured at Canova,
w. Va, who has become insane from his
injuries received while working for the
Baird Brothers He had sued the Baird
Brothers for $40, 600 and was here on the
bridge looking up testimony among the
men engaged on these works
The Hero Continues His Work.
The next man Wilkerson recovered by
diving was Andrew Baird, one of the con-
tractors, who arrived here only this morn
ing 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
Baird Brothers, by the way, were engaged
on the great bridge at Memphis, and have
had much experience in bridge building.
Wilkerson, after telling his story started for
the river, saving: 81 am going to keep on
diving" and at sunset he was zealously
keeping his word,
There is one point on which all testimony
agrees, and that is that the fall was In the
twinkling of an eve, with no warning. A
point on which there is no testimony is
what caused the false work to give way.
There are conjectures that the piling was
not driven deeply enough in the bottom OF
the river. But the structure did not sink;
it snapped. One thing is clear. 1t was not
strong enough, though it looked to be so.
The houses of the wounded are scattered
all over the three cities of Cincinnati,
Covington and Newport, and surgical at
tendance was prompt, efficient and amply
sufficient.
The Death Roll Includes q Pittsburger.
There were 6S persons on and about the
bridge when it fell. The following is re-
yised list of the killed, mi jured and miss
ing. The dead are:
ANDREw BAIRD, Pittsburg
EoBERT Z BhIRR MpRES ssyPST1 ssTsit RS Boston
THOMAS DOW, wheeling.
AN UNKNOWN. about 40 Years old.
=; B. RoBY; Radford City. Va
ELhEk MlaEIAk shRbEk FGsf sEGsasl elneinnaf. al D.
wv eGlMk.fAFF FAFENRheH, AiSas; GnlSi Wheeling.
DICK GORMAN. Dolphin, Pa.
T3aS ERi IN kPhNs 3 haMs cnsinna5,i GianInn,t
tH1RL s sGRfsHkM. Covinxton.
JAMES j. HSsoN. Hsvre " de Grace. Nd.
DENNIS HARLOW, Parkersburg.
CHARLES TYRE. Mitchell. Ind.
WILLIAM BURTON. Pendleton, Ky
PATRICK MURRAY, Greenbrier. VI. Va.
Tn. List of the Injured.
DAN BRrNKLEY, q years old. Hill station. o.:
badly injured internally and about the head and
legs.
BRUCE THOMAS, indianapolis: head cut and right
ankle sprained
JOE ARLING. Newport. KY; head. arms and
A GERMAN nickn,med .'shy Hooks. " name un-
known; head cut and right arm dislocated.
CnARLEs H. HILKERsoN. Louisville. slightly
BEN ARNOLD. Nicholsville KY, shoulder dis
located and head cut.
J. MURRAY Newport. head cut and ear manged.
JOIN PHILLIPS. Newport. left leg broken in
three places below the knee. head cut and terrible
A WHITE man known ''Rabbit'' Heiniger; left
arm fractured and body bruised.
Z. Il. FETTERs. Ironton: left ankle broken; flesh
of light leg torn away at calf.
A. THOMAS. head cut
J. r. LYNCH. colored: internally injured and leg
F. BURNLEY bruised and cut
WILLIAM WILSON. inspector Of works; bruised
and cut about head.
HARRY OSBORN, London; skull crushed: will die.
FRANK WALLACE: injured about body.
THOMAS LANIN. Covfngton; head badly cut and
shoulders disOcated.
HENRY KRAMER. Newport: head cut.
DAN BINhLEY, Freport; face and back cut.
:. II. Hell. fingers and back hurt
THOMAS kRUSE cut about the head.
The missing are:
MARTIN LUTHER. LaGrangem KY: FRANK MUIR
RAY, Newport. head carpenter: GEORGE BURGE
CovinRton: W. BURTON, Winchester Ky;
FRED BRANT, Cincinnati, and DICK ADAMS,
Cincinnati.
Those who came out of the wreck unin-
jured, as nearly as could be learned, were:
Murray Rairden and James Caldwell. Others
went to their homes and could not be traced.