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AWFUL BRIDGE ACCIDENT. Over a Heare of Workmen Drowned by the Falling of the Structure. Conswain, Ontarly (Special) —A most Applsing disaster ovcnrred near here ,Tuesday, and tts results will probably make a death rat of more than thirty. The great railroad bridge being erected across the SE, Lawrence by the New York and Ottawa Railroad, now undergoing construction, AVG WAV about noon sending upward of sixty workmen down with the debris into the mighty rushing over sixty feat baron. That anongle min seesmed to alinoat inte rneutous Following to a partial Met of the dead Cyril Campton, Cornwall, Ontario; FD. Crate, Detroit, Michiel 7. Cabby, Pate verson, NOD; Wi Pyamt, Fyrone, Bonn ; Woo, Jackson, Columbus, Ohio; Louis Baumer, Johnstown, Penn; Pat Mure phy,Toronto; Thomas Birmingham, Dan Hughes, Cleveland, Ohio; Frank Lavigne, Ogdenahurg, N. Y.; W. Sherman, S Cornwall, Ontario; W. Sannders, Balti vare, M John Clause, Canghpawaga, N.VH. Davis, Pittsburg, Penn. Thirty-three of the giatina were brought to the hospital there, wand eighteen of these are dead. It (s beloved that over twenty yet remain iv the river, and it is expected that the death toll will not be completed for many days. The workmen were largely from the New York ardy of the river, and it is almost fine portible to obtain Chet names. A ntaber of the victing wees Enmlinna from the fa moust. Regly tribe, whose resueration , the northwestern part of Franklin County. . The cruss of the andlden crumbling away of the pier is generally thought to have been the acttor of the water on the con crete foundation. All the plaza have been put In upon a concrete foundation and Pler No. 2, which went Tuesaday, had stood the test of the lee last winter without percepti bie damage. An Investigation, which to all probability will soon be held, will deter mine the cause of the accident satisfac torily. There is absolutely no sign of the pier. It has disappeared as completely as if it were a card house.
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Cranbury Press
Cranbury, New Jersey, US
Fri, Sep 09, 1898
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