The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-08
BRIDGE DISASTER VICTIMS.
Fifteen Were Killed and Sixteen In
jured by the Fall of the Structure.

CORNWALL, Ont, Sept. IA revis-
ed list Of the killed and injured in yes
terday's bridge disaster shows that f1f-
teen men were killed and sixteen in
jured.
The Killed-W. ]. Cubby, Paterson, N. j.;
F. F. Jackson, Columbus. O.. Louis Banner.
Johnstown. Pa; r. L. Disart, Tyron, Pa;
Murphy, 1879 Bathurst street, Toronto. Ont;
Tom Birmingham, address unknown Dan
Hughes, Cleveland; F. Lavigne, Ogdensburg,
William Saunders, i4lO Fort avenue Balti-
more; John Clause, Gaughnawauga, Que;
Harry Davis, Pittsburg; Cyril Campbell, Corn
wall, Ont; Robert Martin. 16 Guy avenue
Montreal.
Seriously Injuged-G rga Blay ONE, Perkins
vile, Vt, compound fracture Of leg and body
badly bruised; Peter Oak Qndian), Cornwall
Day Gndian), Cornwall Island. scalp wound,
hurt internally; M. Reeves Qndian), Corn
wall Island chest crushed; Andy Smith, Smith.
Thompson, Montreal, right leg broken and
body badly bruised; John Fraser. Quebec
province, one leg amputated and internally
Y, hurt internally; P. Delehanty, Elkhart,
Wis, both legs severed, cut and one hand
smashed; D. Barton, Buffalo, n. Y, both legs
wall Island, both hands smashed; Peter White
Qndian), lacrosse player, slightly injured.
William White, the famous Indian lacrosse
player,
bruised besides internal injuries.
TORONTO, Ont, Sept. IA special
dispatch from Cornwall, giving details
Of yesterdays bridge accident there,
says the cause of the disaster will not
be positively known until divers have
searched the wreck lying in the bottom
Of the ST. Lawrence. The river is di-
vided by Cornwall island, and the
scene Of the disaster was in the south
channel. There are two stone piers in
the center Of the stream, supporting
three spans of iron work, each 800 feet
long and thirty-seVen feet above high
water. The accident centered around
the pier nearer the south or American
shore. 1t was about three minutes to
the noon hour when the WOrkmen on
that part of the bridge say two Of the
southern spans gave way beneath
them, and they were thrown into the
water or caught and crushed in the
wreck.
None Of them can give a clear idea
of what happened, and there will prob
ably be expensive litigati On before the
liability is placed.
The piers and mason work We're bNilt
by the Sooysmith company, Of New
York, and the iron work by the Phoc-
nix Bridge company, Of Phoeaixvllle,
L d. Lite ludSOuTy, InOuSn not formally
accepted, was practically completed
and all the men at work were employees
Of the bridge company. Naturally,
therefore, the tendency, so far as it is
based on the testimony Of employees,
Is to blame the SoOysmith company
On the other hand, there is the en-
phatic statement of an eye witness to
the contrary.
Capt Bonner, on the tug Beaver, was
a short distance below the bridge at
the time, and says that the southerly
span collapsed first, pulling the pier
and the next span with 1t towards the
American shore. The spans which fell
had just been completed and the false
work underneath was being removed,
and 1t Is possible that in some way
the bridge was injured.
Another theory is that the founda-
ton of the pier had been undermined
by water and crumbled away, drag
ging down the bridge. In that case
the pier would not show signs OF be-
ing pulled towards the southern shore,
but would be directly in the channel
Of the river. Only a thorough investi-
cation can settle the point.