Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-06-18
BRIDGE WoRKMEN KILLED.

Twcnty-nine Mon Killed Rnd SIX Injured
by the Fall of n bridge In kentucky.
CINCINNATI, June 16.-A bridge in
course of construction over the Licking
river between Covington and Newport,
KY. fell this morning, and OF forty-tive
worlsmen on the structure, so fur as Is
now known only two escaped unhurt.
The high river had washed out the
earth about the supports of the false
work, and it is said one of the contract
ors said day or two ago that he was
afraid the structure would not stand
under the weight Of the heavy material.
But still they kept Mt work.
A force of forty-three men I'M
der the direction OF Robertand William
Baird, the contractors, was engaged in
putting in place the heavy iron work
on the main span. Suddenly, without
warning, there was n cracking sound,
n swaying of the structure and head
long plunge of the whole mass of tim
bers, iron and workmcn into the river
fifty feet below. Few forms We're to
be seen struggling on the surface, the
others were drowned or crushed by the
material.
There were sixty-eight persons on and
about the bridge when it fell. The fol-
lowing is revised list OF the killed, in
iured and missing: Killed - Robert
Baird, of 1928 Columbia street, Newport;
Andrew Baird of Pittsburgh, brother
of Robert: Charles Gresham, Covington;
Edward Sullivan, Ludlow, KY; james
johnson, of llavre dc Grace, Md; Dennis
Harlow. Parkcrsburg, w. Va: Il. A.
Nolan, Erie, Pa, Charles Stall, Ironton,
O.; Charles Tyro, Mitchell, Ind; Will
lam Burton, Pendleton, Ky; Patrick
Murray, Cirecnbrier,W. Va; c. d. Cham
polk Semple. of Boston; Thomas Down.
Wheeling, w. Va; an unknown. about
10 years old; J. Il. Roby, Radford City,
Va; William Roby, brother of j. F.; FL
mer Barber. Cincinnati; William Alois,
Ohio: C. w. Pfatfbaugh, Wheeling. w.
Va: Dick German, Dolphin, Pa; John
Adams, Cincinnati; Frank Adams Gin
cinnati
Iniured-DanielB inkley, Hill Station,
O., u years old, badly injured inter-
nally and about the head and legs;
Bruce Thomas, indianapolis, head cut
and right ankle sprained; Joe Airing,
Newport, Ky, head, msand shoulders
cut; a man niclinamed ''Shyhooks,"
name unknown, head cut and right
arm dislocated; Charles II. Wilkerson,
Louisville, KY, slightly bruised on
shoulders; Ben Arnold, Nicholasville,
Kv., shoulder dislocated and head cut;
John Murphy, Newport, Ky, head cut
andright ear mangled; William Thomas,
Xenia, O., bruised slightly; white
man known rs Rabbit" Heiniger. left
arm fractured and body bruised; c. II.
Fctters. Ironton, o., left ankle broken
and flesh of right leg torn away ut calf
A. Thomas, head cut; ]. 2. Lynch, col
ored, internally injured and leg brolsen;
+. Burlllcy, bruised and cut; William
Wilson, inspector of works, bruised and
cut about head and body; Frank Wal
lace, injured about body; Harry Osborn,
London, Eng, skull crushed, will die;
Thomas LAWN, Covington, head badly
cut and shoulders dislocated; Henry
Kramer, Newport, KY, head cut; John
Phillips, Newport, KY, left leg broken
in three places below the knee, head
cut and terrible internal injuries; will
die; Dan Binkley, Newport. Ky, face
and back cut; S. II. He'll, fingers and
back hurt; Thomas Krausc, cut about
the head.