The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-07
THIRTY MEN KILLED
COLLAPSE OF AN UNFINISHED
BRIDGE NEAR ST. REGIS, CAN.
Death Comes to WOrkmen without a
Moments Warming i'm the ST.
Lawrence River.

noon to-day two south spans Of the inter
national bridge of the New York & Ottawa
Railroad, now under construction across the
st. Lawrence river, about three miles above
st. Regis Indian village, fell without warn
ing. with eighty men at work on the bridge.
all being thrown into the river, sixty feet
below. Nearly two score were picked up and
taken 70 Cornwall Hospital and forty are
still missing. Late reports from Cornwall
Hospital says thirty-three men have been
the hospital Eighteen of them have since
died. The latest information makes it prob
able that the death list will reach thirty.
Following is list of the dead made up at
midnight:
W. j. CURRY. Paterson, n. j.
w. j. JACKSON, Columbus o.
LOUIS BANNER, Johnstown, Pa.
f. L. DYSART, Tyrone. Pa.
J. D. CRAIG, 222l Franklin street, De-
troit, Mich
PAT MURPHY, Toronto.
THOMAS BIRMINGHAM.
DAN HUGHES, Cleveland
FRANK LEVIGNE, Ogdensburg, n. 7.
W. SHERMAN, Cornwall, Ont.
w. SAUNDERS, Baltimore.
JOHN CLAUSE, Caughnawega, n. Y.
H. DAVIS, Pittsburg
CYRIL CAMPBELL, Cornwall, Ont.
Wounded-John Wilson, Laden, Mass. leg
broken; George BloXon, Peeknsville, VT,
leg fractured; Bert Brant, Toronto, Ont.
bruised Peter O'Keefe, Conway. leg and
chest injured Louis White. Cornwall, spine
injured: P. Day Cornwall, scalp wound;
Mitchell Reeves, Cornwall, serious; Andrew
Smith. Rochester. N. Y, serious; w.
Thompson Montreal, leg broken; John
Fraser, Quebec. leg cut OFT: John Bero, In
dian, Cornwall, internal injuries; p. Dele
want Elkhart. Wis, legs injured; D. Bar
ton, Buffalo. legs crushed; M. Burke, Johns
vile, slightly hurt; p. White, Cornwall,
slightly hurt.
AS far as can be learned, eighty-seven
men were on the pay roll. of whom eighty
two reported for work this morning. OF this
list only thirty-eight have actually been ac-
counted for. Among those thrown into the
river was the foreman, Thomas f. Brady
Cor Bricery), whose home is in Pottsville.
Pa. He has not been accounted for up to
late hour tonight. Just before dark the
dead body of an Indian Iaborer was picked
up on the Cornwall side. There was only
Slight bruise on his forehead. He probably
was stunned by the fall and drowned.
The bridge consists of three spans. of
which two were completed and the third
was nearly completed, when the south pier
gave way at its foundation, causing both
spans to fall into sixty feet of water, TAX
ing its load of human freight with it.
The names of the killed and drowned cam
not at present be ascertained, as they were
Indians from the ST. Regis reservation. The
scene of the accident is located about four
miles from Hogansburg above the ST. Regis
Indian reservation. The bridge that gave
way was being built across the st. Law
renee river at the foot of Long Saulte
rapids, near Reinhardts island. The water
at this point is known to be as swift as
in any part of the river.
The immediate cause of the disaster and
the giving way of the span of the bridge
seems to have been from the washing away
of one of the large piers The pier in ques-
ton was begun last fall and work was con-
tinued all winter and finished this summer
The contract work was in charge of Messrs.
Sooy, Smith & Co., who are well known
as extensive and careful contractors in their
line and known to have had instructions
from the railroad company to build for
'permanency." The pier had been accepted
as PERFECTLY reliable and safe. 1t wouldl
current was underestimate.