The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-06-22


bridge looking up testimony among the
men engaged on these works. The next
man Wilkerson rescued by diving was
Andrew Baird, one of the contractors, who
arrived here only this morning and was
on the bridge with his brother, Robert, in
speeding the work. He intended to 60
away tonight Robert has been here all
along experimenting the work. Those
Baird Bros. 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
from the river, saying, I'm going TO
keep on diving" and at sunset he was zeal
ously keeping his werd. THERE'S one point
In which all Testimony agrees, and that
point is that the fall was in the twinkling
of an eye, 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 1t looked
so.
The wounded were scattered all over the
three cities of Cincinnati, Covington and
Newport and surgical attendance was
prompt and efficient and amply sufficient.
The Killed.
There were sixty.eight persons on and
abot the bridge when it fell. The follow
ing is revised list OF the killed, injured
aud missing:
ROBERT BAIRD of 1O2: COlumbiAst.,
Newport.
ANDREW BAIRD of Pit,sburg, brother Of
Robert.
CHARLES GRESHAM. Covington.
EDWARD SULLIVAN, Ludlow, Ky.
JAMES JOHNSON, Havre de Grace, Nd.
DENNIS HARLOW, ParkerSburg, w. Va.
Z. A. NOLAN, Erie. Pa.
CHARLES Sr0LL, Ironton, O.
CHARLES TYRE. Mitchell, Ind.
WILLIAM BURTON, Pendleton.
PATRICK MURRAY, Grcenbrier, W. Va.
c. d. CHAMPOlX SEMPLE, Boston.
THOMAS DOWN, Wheeling W. Va.
An UNKNOWN about forty years old.
j.. ROBEY, Radford City. Va.
WILLIAM R0BEY, brother OF J. r.
ELMER BARBER, Cincinnati.
WILLIAM ALOIS Ohio.
G. W. PFAFFENBACH Of Wheeling W..
Va
DICK GORMAN. Dolphin, Pa.
JOHN ADAMS, Cincinnati.
FRANK ADAMS, Cincinnati.
The Injured.
DANIEL BfNKLEY, twenty-one years old, Hill
Station, o.; badly injured internally and about
the head and legs.
Bruce THOMAS Indianapolis head cut and
right ankle sprained.
JoE AIRING, Newport, Ky; head. arms and
shoulders cut.
A German nicknAmed "Skyhooks." name
unknown; head cut and right arm disocated.
CHARLES III. WILKINSON, Louisville, Ky,
| Slightly bruised on shoulders.
Ben ARNOLD. Nicholasvills, KY, shoulde r
dislocated aud head cut.
JOHN j. MURRAY. Newport, head cut and
| right ear mangled.
WILLIAM THOMAS, Xenia, o., bruised
slightly.
JONI PHILLIPS, Newport, leg broken in
three places below tho knee; head cut aud ter
ribe internal injuries; will die.
A white man known as "RabbiV HEfNIGER
! left arm fractured and body bruised.
c. III. FErEES Iron on, o., left ankle broken,
flesh of right leg torn away at calf.
A. THOMAS, head cnt.
J. z. LYNCII, colored. internally injured and
| leg broken.
+. BURKLEY, bruised and cut.
WILLIAM WILSON, inspector OF works;
| bruised and cut about head and body.
FRASK WALLACE, injured about body
HARRY OSBORNE, London, England; skull
| crushed; will die.
THOMAS LAWN, COvington; head badly cut
and shoulders disloosted.
| Henry KRAMER, Newport, head out
| DAN BINKLEY, Newport, face and back cut.
| ). IL. HE'LL, myers and back hurt
| THOMAS kRAUsE, cut about the head.
The Missing.
Martin Luther, Lagrange, Ky.
Frank Mure, Newport
| George Burge, Covington.
N. w. Burton, Winchester. Ky.
William Wessing, Newport.
| Fred Brant, As Man-st., COvington.
| Dick Adams, Cincinnati.
Those VINO came out Of the wreck uninjured
] Ra:rden and James Caldwell. The others
went to their homes and could not be traced.