Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1932, Page 6

3 BRIDGE DEATHS + HELD ACCIDENTAL Eounty Officials End Inquiry|s at Takoma Park—State to Make’ Probe. By & Btaff Correspondent of The Star. TAKOMA PARK, Md,, January 13.— The death yesterday afternoon of three workmen when a pgrtion of the Carroll Avenue Bridge here fell as they were engaged in demolishing it has been de- | clared accidental and no further in-| vestigation of the matter will be under- | taken by county officials, State’s Attor- | ney Stedman Prescott has announced. An engineering investigation to de- fermine the causes of the bridge falling while the men were working on it will, however, be undertaken by the State Roads Commission to provide informa- tion so that similar accidents may be avolded in future. Maj. E. Brooke Lee, member of the commission, stated to* day. A State Roads Commission in- spector assigned to the job had as his neipal function the seeing that the ob was completed according to con- tract, Maj. Lee said The three workmen lost their lives when a 40-foot concrete slab of the bridge gave way while they were work- ing on it, and crashed to the floor of the valley 75 feet below. Two of them were buried beneath masses of con- crete The dead are: Guy L. Cowperthwait of Elkton, Md., who leaves his wife and two children. He was temporarily room- ing in Baltimore. Edgar T. Tracey, 34, of 493 Jackson avenue, Takoma Park, survived by his widow and one child Harold Davis, colored, of Media, Pa. Twe Buried by Debris. Cowperthwait, who was superintend- ent of the work of demolishing the bridge, and Tracey, a mechanic, who had obtained work on the bridge but two days ago, were mangled almost beyond recognition. They were killed | instantly. Davis was not crushed so badly and Yved for several hours. He died late yesterday in the Washington Sanitarium of internal injuries, a fractured pelvis, leg., shoulder and arm Six men were on the span when it | collapsed, but three, all colored, leaped o safety. - Witnesses said that as the oridge started to crack all dashed up ) the incline toward the solid portion of the structure ‘The three who died failed to reach safety before the huge concrete slab parted from the rest of the bridge and toppled to the bottom of the valley. Students from the Washington Mis- sionary College, which is nearby, were the first on the scene. They were joined by Takome Park firemen and members of the Kensington Fire De- partment rescue squad. The victims soon were extricated Described by Witness. P. D. B. Austin, 202 Willow avenue, Tekoma Park, Md., was a witness to the accident. “The gang had been dynamiting before lunch,” he said, “and immediately after Junch began cutting through reinforcements with an acety- Jene torch. “Six men were on the bridge when the span gave way. The columns underneath the outer edge of the con- erete slab had been removed and the slab, weakened by the cutting of the reinforcements, tipped over. The three men nearest the standing portion of the bridge ran from the falling section and were sble to reach safety before the ::b was severed from the rest of the dge. About 40 feet of the bridge at the north end had been demolished be- | Commission. | Tracy fore the accident and the men were working on the next section. ‘The three colored workmen who es- caped were Archie Davis, brother of the dead man; Wellington Rose, Mount Airy, Md, and Edward Dotson, also of Mount_Airy. W. L. Guthrie, 507 Greenwood ave- nue, Takoma Pa-k, Md, and Fred Green, a student at the Washington Missionary College, were standing at the north end of the bridge when the n fell. They were the first to begin the work of getting the men from be- neath the wreckage. While doing so, Green inhaled a quantity of the acetylene gas used to operate the torch, and required hospital treatment. Other Students Ald. Other students of the college Who aided in the rescue work included Oscar Johnson, George Griffin and George Butterfield Montgomery ~ County Policeman Charles Barnes arrived at the scene & few minutes after the accident and ook charge of the situation. He sum- | moned an undertaker and notified the contracting firm, Forbes & Murphy of Baltimore The bridge, about 200 feet in length, was being torn down to make way for a new structure. ‘The contract for the demolition was awarded to Forbes & Murphy about two weeks ago, when they were declared he low bidder at & contract price of $2,000. A triple-span reinforced con- crete arch bridge will be constructed in its place under a contract recently let by the State Roads Commission This bridge will have a much wider roadway than the eld one. It will also have a walk for pedestrians on one side, and the arch construction will allow the building in the valley below of a continuation of the park drive in Sligo Valley Parkway o be under- taken next Summer by the Maryland- National Capital Park and Planning The new bridge will be built at & contract price of about $39,000, the State to furnish cement, making the total cost in the neighborhood of $60,000 The bodies of Cowperthwait and were taken to the Colonial funeral home of William Reuben Pum- phrey at Rockville and prepared for burial. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. the | HOOVER IS WORLD [FADER,SHYSFESS Tells Brooklyn Audience He Is | Outstanding in Relieving | Burden of Armament. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 13 —President Hoover was pictured last night by | Senator Simeon D. Fess, Republican | National Committee chairmanas “the | outstanding leader of the world” in irrl&e\'ing the people from the burdens | of armament. Mr. Hoover will receive “the most | emphatic vindication yet voted in the history of American politics,” Fess de- | clared, when the American people come |to realize what his leadership has | meant. | The Ohio Senator, speaking before a rally of Brooklyn Republicans, dis- claimed any glory-seeking on the part of the President. Has Prevented Strikes. Fess credited the President with | bringing together the forces of capital and labor with the result, he said, that consultation and co-operation, in & | “spirit of good will” have supplanted the strikes that usually attend economic disturbances. “When rightly viewed,” Senator Fess sald, “this achievement will be pro- nounced one of the greatest accomplish- { ments since the World War.” The world-wide depression has been a test, the Senator said, not only of the modern economic system, but 8lso of the stability of the government. | " After reviewing the President’s plan | for the Reconstruction Corporation, the Home Loan Mortgage Bank, the in- crease in the funds of the Farm Loan | Bank, and the recommendation for an- other corporation with a capitalization Our Savings Depositors’ Success contributes to our success. 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His third was his effort to induce Europe to meet about the table in the common interest of lessening friction between nations by reducing armament below the point of aggression.” OLDEST A. E. F. SOLDIER | EXPIRES AT AGE OF 84 Vermont Man Enlisted in 1872 and Records Show He Cooked for Gens. Miles, Wood and Pickman. By the Associated Press. BENNINGTON, Vt, January 13.— Frank Mulligan, 84, believed to have been the oldest American soldier other | than commissioned officers to see serv- ice in France, died Monday. He enlisted in 1872 under Gen. Nel- son A. Miles as & cook and took part in the campaign against the Sioux Al- though records here were not complete, his relatives maintained that Mulligan had remained in the service until he was discharged in 1923 He served in the Spanish-American Wwar, transferred to the 25th Michigan Volunteers in 1900, spent three years in the Philippines and was with the allied forces which put down the Boxer rebel- lion tn China. 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