| From the New Orleans Daily Crescent |
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| October 12, 1861 |
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| The Monroe Intelligencer says: |
| On the 2d inst., while Mr.
Moses Wadley, the contractor for the building of the railroad
{Vicksburg,
Shreveport & Texas RR} bridge over the Ouachita, at this
place, was bringing the timbers of the road bed to the proper level by
wedging from below, the scaffolding between two of the abutments,
embracing a span of one hundred and twenty feet, gave way with a
terrible crash. Two negro men, belonging to the contractor, were upon
the scaffold at the time. One of them managed to seize hold of one of
the cords, and swing in mid air fifty feet from the ground for full
fifteen minutes, till he was raised upon the timber to which he was
clinging. The other fell amid the chaos of broken timber below. At
first it was supposed that the latter was not seriously injured, no
bones having been broken, but he died the next morning of internal
injuries resulting from the fall. The damage, inclusive of the loss of
the negro, is about two thousand dollars. |
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