The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1893-12-22
THIRTY-FIVE.
The Number Lost in the Louis
vile Bridge Disaster.
Their Bodies Pinned Down by Timbers-
Morning Breaks on Desolate Scene
Relatives Awaiting the Worst-Ths
Bridge Co. VIII BE Bankrupted.

JEFFERsoSvILLE Ind, Dec Is.-Tho
scene Of the Louisville and Jefferson
willie bridge calamity Saturday morn
ing battles description. Only con-
glomeration OF iron and timbers meets
the eye. Saturday morning thousands
hoclsed to the wharf and looked in
nmazement at the effects of the catas-
trophe. Many wives whose husbands
were employed on the structure could
be seen among the throng awaiting in
expectancy to learn their fate
No bodies were discovered Saturday,
but it is said that no less than thirty
five bridge hands are under the debris
The Phoenix Bridge Co. is using all Of
its energy TO clear the wreckage so
that the bodies can be brought to the
surface.
All bodies when rescued will be taken
to Louisville, where they will be pre-
pared for burial 1t is said that the
calamity will not only prove disastrous
TO the Phoenix Bridge Co., but it will
likely bankrupt the fun.
Bridge men look upon the disaster as
the worst that has happened in bridge
building in this country. The bridge
proper was to be completed by January
l, 1894, consequently large force OF
men were employed on the structure.
LoUIsyII.LE, Ky, Dec Is s-After the
fall OF span of the Louisville and
Jeifersonville bridge Friday, carrying
down 60 workmen, the banks of the
river were lined with Mortified specta.
tors and the ferry-boats carried thou
sands out TO the scene, and under a Sec
ond part of the bridge where an unseen
danger lurl5ed
When night had covered with her
sable mantle the gaunt timbers, and
the chaos of wreckage, another span OF
the bridge came crashing down, entire.
ly blocking the river Providence
stayed this second wreck until after
dark. Had the span fallen while the
ferry boats were steaming underneath,
the loss of life would have been
doubled.
The crew at the life-saving station
worked like beavers and dashed righ'
into the wreclSage TO save the maimeC
and the drowning. II is a settled fac
that the high wind loosened the trav
eler, which in topping over, carried
the span with It. Eighteen are know
TO have been killed, and thirteen ar,
badly hurt The river may give VI
more of the dead.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Dec. fs-Genera
Foreman Mckee has large force o
men at work at the scene of Friday
disaster.
AT the scene everything is In con
fusion, and the work OF recovering tn
bodies win be rapidly pushed until al
are found. The impression is that no
many Of the bodies are entangled in tn
debris, but have foated away and hay
probably gone over the falls.
The bodies that go over the falls, an
do not lodge at the island or at Port
land dixie, may iloat many miles dow
the river before they are recovered.
The iron and steel, in an entangle,
MACS, now lies 40 feet below the to
of the piers. The ferryboat W. c. Hit
had narrow escape whan the spar
| fell
The injured are confined in SEP
arate ward in the new part of the cit,
hospital and are receiving the best at
tention. II is thought all will recover
The inquest will probably not be he'll
for several days