Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-16

llrd. Ever hereafter tuey
of In the past tense, for
down 10 death with their
ore Of wOrkmen.
Se was q strong wrought iron
O.. The great stone piers ON
.ide OF the river were diminished as
IN. were the approaches 70 them. The
ron works Of the approaches are very
passive. The span between the two
Aers looks 70 be 300 feet, The height
the truss which was to form the
tidge span between those two piers
fas 65 feet above low water.
False work Of piling aud timbers had
been constructed in the river On the
.op Of this false work the construction
lf the iron truss began, exactly midway
2etween the two piers, and the work
hs pushed from the middle both ways.
Five bents or sections Of the ponder
iron work had been constructed.
&ch bent, or section was thirty feet
|ng, making nearly half the span. On
he top of this was an apparatus known
10 bridge men as the traveller, which Is
used TO extend the structure towards
LlE eNuss his kANHCllCA ANNN NDlAAN AAAaA q ,
leet above the main structure.
lIt vE1s full OF men at 1880 this morn
HES and some OF them near the top OF
Iere nearly 100 feet above the waters
the Licking river. The timberS Of
false work were beams about l6
les square. They were old and
ther-beaten and had evidently been
before. However, in bulkiness,
all outward appearance they
A. rOng.
An 'cts show they were not strong
Dr the immense weight they
ellred 20 bear. The burden Of
mea, or for that matter Of thir-
lndred men, wOUld have been
lLg FOR these great beams OF yell
u IL was the mass OF iron weigh
Areds OF tons that OvermatC he'd
FrOught ruin aud gathered an
rvest for death.
about 1880 o'clock this morn
hen thirty-slX men were on the
sller and no one alive can tell how
~ men were working below, when
awful mement came. IL came, too,
a bolt from heaven. No warning
given by those Overtaxed beams of
'lrdy pine. Suddenly, as il broken by
me reSistlesS, invisible force, they
ckled, broke and crashed down into
q river below, a mass of ruins, under
.h a score OF human lives went out.
Il course, there was a rush 10 the
me from both sides Of the river. The
,bris filed the deep steam from bank
~ bank. The stream was soon full
skifs, and the work Of rescuing the
began aud went on brayely with
directing hand.
the hour Of the accident there
few, other than the wOrkmen on
-idge, near the scene which leaves
survivors among the victims as
ly ones 20 tell the story.
ce Thomas was working on the
He says:
sitting in a sling working a
he first thing 1 knew l was
i heard no cracking OF tim
outcry OF human voices.
ew was going down. l had
ime 90 think when / found my
the bottom OF the river iu ten
water, about twenty feet from
I arose 70 the surface
know how. Then l heard cries
A young man near me whose
don't know, shouted Pm killed,
led he only had an arm broken.
ed him out / helped three others
have heart disease and / worked
got deadly sick. 1 only got bruiS-
little on the legs. l saw several
that escaped. don't know their
names. We know each other by
rue point In which an the
yrees. and that point is that
in the twinkling OF an eye
rniug.
which there Is no testimony
used the false work 70 give
re are Conjectures that the
not driven deeply enough in
N OF the river. But the StruC-
IoJ sink, il snapped. One thing
It was not strong enough,
e looked SO.
Wounded were scattered all over
ee cities of Cincinnati. COvingtOn
-wDOrt, and surgical attendance
prompt, efficient and amply suiii-
here were sixty-eight persons in and
lut the bridge when it fell. The fol-
ring is a revised rist Of the killed, iu-
ed and missing:
THE DEATH LIST
T. d. CHANPOIN SESIPLE, Boston.
THOMAS Down, Wheeling, w. Va.
AN UNKNOwN. about forty years old.
r. r.. RoBEY. RadfOrd City, Va.
WILLIAM ROBEY, brother Of j. +.
O. TER BARBER, Cincinnati.
LIAM ALOIS, Ohio.
W. PAFFENBACH, Wheeling, w.
-ICK GORNiAN, Dolphin, Pa.
JOHN ADAMS, Cincinnati.
RANK ADAMS, Cincinnati
OBEBT BAIRD. Newport, Ky.
NDREw BAIRD, Pittsourg, brother
lbert.
ARIES GRESHAM, Covington, Ky.
vARD SULLIVAN. Ludlew, Ky.
sJ0aSsoN, Havre De Grace,