Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-03-12
NINETEEN MEN
ARE DROWNED
As Result of CapSilinS Of FerTybOat
on the Hudson Near GlOnnS Falls.
CAUSED BY SCARED ITALIAN BOY
Eight Men We're Aboard When the Boat
Went DOwn-Wildest Excitement Pre-
vailed. Partial List of Victims.

Glenus Falls, n. Y, March Mime
teen men are dead as a result of the capsiz
ing today of the ferry boat used by work
men at Spier Falls, about ten miles west
of Glens Falls on the Hudson river Over
thousand men are employed there al
present in the construction Of the power
dam of the Hudson River Power Company.
The laborers and many of the masons are
Italians who live in shanties on the north
side of the river. The main portion OF
the work is carried on at present at the
opposite side of the river. The men have
been in the habit of crossing a small
bridge where the river flows through the
unfinished portion Of the dam but the
river has been rising foi several days and
the company fearing that the bridge was
unsafe destroyed it with dynamite Below
the work about a half mile is ferry. The
boat Is a scow shaped affair thirty feet
long and thirteen wide and operated by
means of cables. 1t is large enough TO
carry a heavily loaded team, and as many
as $50 men have been taken across at one
time. Yesterday when the men were be-
ing ferned across by an Italian boy known
as Cigarette" became frightened and fel!
overheard. He was rescued however.
This morning seventy or eighty men got
aboard and the boat started, leaving big
crowd on the bank waiting for the next
trip When eighty feet from the shore
the water splashed against the rail and the
Italian boy who had fallen overheard the
previour day seized one of the tackle ropes
which ran from the overhead cable to the
stern of the boat. Some Of the men
started toward him and instantly the boa,
careened and fleI, everyone being
thrown into the water. The Hudson,
swollen by the freshet bore a score or
more of The struggling men down the
stream. Many others succeeded in catch
ing hold of the boat which had rghted
and they clung there until pulled ashore.
The widest excitement prevailed but
the current carried many of the men i'll
toward the shore where they were rescued.
Teams were quickly harnefsed and
loaded with skilled log drivers and sent
down along the river to points yhere the
bodies would be likely to land. Dozens Of
dinner pals, hats and coats were fished
out but it was nearly four O'Clock before
the first body was found. This was found
in a log Jam two miles below the dam and
was recognized as that Of Fred Foran, an
Italian Interpreter. The river for miles is
being watched and dragged in hopes Of
finding bodies Of the other victims. There
were but two or three Engllsh-speaking
men on the boat, the Italians being all
designated by number. The rolls of the
men were called and this evening every
body had been accounted for except Elk
teen men and it is certain that these men
we're drowned. These known to he dead
are:
MICH L. KENNEDY, married, leaving
wife and four children.
FRED FORAN, Italian Interpreter,
married
CIGARETTE" the Italian boy who
started the panic.
SIXTEEN OTHERS are missing.
1t is unlikely that all the bodies will
be removed. The rver is full Of logs and
at the big boom FIVE miles down the river
there are many thousands of them.