The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-12-22

A BRIDGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
GIVES WAY.

Fifty -One Men Were Precipitsted no
Feet Into the Ohio River ut Louisville.
The Catastrophe Supposed to Have Been
Caused by the Traveller" Becoming
Loosened by the Wind.
LOUISVILLE. Dec. 18.--At few min
utes past 10 o'clock Friday morning the
false work and that part Of the middle
span of the Louisville and Jeffersonville
Bridge company in place gave way and
with all the workmen was ~precipitated
10 feet into the water below. There
was but a moments warning and those
who escaped going down with the mass
OF iron and timber started for the piers
after the first trembling that indicated
the giving away of the false work.
The accident was a horrible one and
is the last of long list OF castastrophes
that have marked the construction OF
this bridge The foreman in beginning
work noticed that during the night the
''traveler," which had been put in place
Thursday night, had been worked loose
by the wind. An order to draw it back
into place was given, and the men and
engines started.
The wind was high at the time and
the gentle swaying of the false work
gradually forced the traveller off of the
piles on which it was resting. Wien
the end slipped, the whole work
trembled and the men, realizing their
danger, started for the piers. AS luck
would have it, the central bent was the
first to give way, and the men on this
bent went down to be covered by the
the mass of iron and timber Of the
other bents, which fell almost immedi-
ately, carrying with them the other
workmen who failed to reach the piers.
The north bent, or the one attached to
the Indiana pier, did not fall for 10
minutes after the other parts went
down.
AS near as can be ascertained there
were 81 men on the bridge when the
alarm was given by the engineer in
charge of the work. OF this number
several succeeded in reaching the piers.
Of those that went down some were
covered by mass of timber from be-
meath which it will be days before their
bodies are recovered.
The revised list Of dead, injured and
missing is as follows:
Dead.
L. G. GARLOCK, Buffalo.
JOHN COURTNEY.
+. BURNS.
c. MURPHY.
G. w. COOK.
Missing.
CT. HoLDERER.
A. SODDEN.
j. CREGAN.
Frank SIMMONS, Jacksonville.
G. II. HINKLE, Dauphin, Pa.
j. HOLDEN
jill. WILSON.
PAT KELLY.
j. II. OWENS.
+. SHERIDAN.
j. ALLEN.
p. f. MOORE.
GEORGE LILIEY.
r. /. DERFLING, Virginia
II. PLISS.
Injured.
j. MYERS, Lexington, KY. left leg badly
fractured. y
HARRY LEE, New Albany, Ind; slightly
injured.
H. ID. PUGH.
K. HILDEBRAND, three ribs fractured
internally injured, will probably die
q. w. BROWN, lrvington, KY; arm
broken in three places.
G. THARP, Oswego, N. Y; ankle badly
G. Z. sHEEHAN, Greenup, KY; flesh
A. T. HALL, East Tennessee; badly
bruised.
S. PARKS, Scotland three ribs broken
and ankle sprained.
Il. GALLOWAY, 2707 Sayre street, South
Pittsburg leg fractured
Il. SHERIFF, 461 South State street, Chi
cago; fatally injured.
X. HOLM, fatally injured.
w. A. SHARPE, 721 Oldham street, Louis
vile; left arm broken. hurt internally.
General opinion ascribes the cause of
the disaster to the stiff wind that was
sweeping the river. 1t bore with great
force on the ponderous framework
which necessarily became lQosened
from the constant strain and swaying
of the heavy timbers. A great mum Der
of people before the first span fell
could see the great traveller" rising 80
feet above the piers, swaying and
quivering in the wind in what APP
peared to be a most alarming manner
to those on shore. The motion, how
ever, was hardly noticeable to the
workinen and they had no idea Of their
deadly peril until the great mass of
wood and iron began to sink and the
awful cracking and crashing of the
timbers smote upon their ears.
The third span of the bridge col
lapsed at $50 Friday night. So far as
known there was no one injured. This
will be an additional loss of about $75,
600 to the bridge company. This span
had been completed, but the collapse of
the fourth span is supposed to have
loosened and displaced It.