The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-16
HARVEST
OF DEATH
A Large Number Hurled
Into Eternity
WITHOUT WARNING
A Bridge in the Course Of Con-
stfuction Falls.
THE LIST OF DEAD AND MISSING
With Sudden Cracking OF Timbers the Whole
Mass rlunges Headong Iuto the River
Fifty Feet Below-Crushed or Drowned.

CINCINNATI, June IA casualty such
as throws pail of sorrow over conmun-
ity and sends thrill of horror through the
civilized world happened on the Licking
river, between Newport ana Covington,
KY, this afternoon. A wagon and street
railway bridge was in course of construc-
ton between the two cities. The contrac-
tors for the iron work were Baird Brothers
Of Pittsburg They were Andrew and
Robert Baird and they
BOTH WENT DOWN TO DEATH
with their two score or more of workmen.
The bridge was a strong wrought iron
structure. The stone piers on each side Of
the river were finished.
The iron works of the approaches are
very massive. The span between the two
piers is about 300 feet. and the height of
the truss which was to form the bridge
span between the piers was sixty-five feet
above water. False work in piling timbers
had been constructed in the river.
On the top Of this false work the con-
struction Of the iron truss began, midway
between the two piers and the work was
pushed from the middle both ways. Five
sections Of the ponderous iron work had
been constructed. On top Of this was an
apparatus known 10 bridge men as a
traveller which is used to extend q
structure from the ends. The traveller
was full OF men at 10 80 this morning and
some OF them were near the top. nearly one
hundred feet above the water Of the Lick
ing river. The timbers of the false work
were beams about ten inches square, old
ard weather-beaten and had evidently
been used before. 1t was mass of iron
weighing hundreds upon hundreds Of tons
that overmatched them and wrought the
ruin and gathered the
AWFUL HARVEST FOR DEATH.
Thirty six men wore in the traveller at
1879 when the awful crash came. and no
one can tell how many were working be-
low.
The crash came like bolt from heaven.
Suddenly the overhead beams of pine broke
and crashed into the river below mass of
ruins, under which a score OF lives went
out. The debris filed the deep stream
from bank to bank. The people filed both
shores and the stream was soon full of
skigs and the
WORK OF REsCUTNG LIFE
began without a directing head. This
work was kept up all day and is still going
on tonight.
about the bridge when 1t fell. The follow
ING is. a revised list of the
AlALLD'
c. D. CHAMPoIx,
THOMAS Down,
An unknown about 40 years of age.
n *. hOLfs
ELMER BARBER,
- ELoIs.
c. w. PEAFEEBACH,
Dick GoRMAE,
g Lon, AR PANS
ROBERT BAIRD.
ANDREW BAIRD,
CHARLES GRESHAM,
EDWARD SULLIVAN.
JAMES JOHNSON.
DENNIS HARLOW.
E. A. NOLAN.
CHARLES STALL,
CHARLES TYRE,
WILLIAM BURTON,
PATRICK MURRAY,
.ss-,-.
49, -
George BURKE,
y. Burton.
WuIlAM Wrestling,
FRED BRANr,
DICK ADAMS,
JouN PHILLIPs,
K,kRRY OSBORNE.
Osborne is probably fatally injured and
nineteen others more or less Injured.
AT the hour of the accident there were
but few other workmen On the bridge
pesr the scene. which leaves the few sur
vivors among the victims as the only ones
70 tell the story.
Bruce Thomas waa working on the
bridge. He SAYS:
Toe first thing knew was falling. 1
heard no cracking timber, no outcry, only
hNh" WAS SohNS DO"N
and had hardly time TO think when / found
myself on the bottom Of the river about
twenty feet from shore. / only got bruised
On tue iess t "a Osroas ''l0U
Alta cottage on Thornton street. New
mort. not 200 YARDS from the bridge lay the
dead bodies Of John r. Roby and brother,