Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1936, Page 8

"l' 8 % SRDGE CLLPSE BANEDONDRVER ighway Officials Report on % *Virginia Crash Fatal to #%: Four Relief Workers. 8y the Associated Press. "RICHMOND, September 3.—State +Bighway authorities placed responsi- “pllity today for the collapse of a S¥Bridge across Falling Creek in Ches- “ferfield County late yesterday, in “which four relief workers were killed, Z8n the driver of one of the trucks which they were riding. A report submitted to Chief High- Engineer C. S. Mullen by Bridge . eers W. R. Glidden and W. B. Adams placed the blame on the driver 781 the first of two Citizens’ Service “Exchange trucks, under the weight of . Which the structure gave way. Excessive Speed Charged. =% The engineers charged drivers of i~both vehicles, one of whom was killed, ‘With excessive speed as they entered ‘$he narrow approach to the bridge about five miles from Richmond, gdiTying the workers homeward from - & wood-cutting camp. « Their report said the leading truck pparently had difficulty swinging to ‘the bridge approach, crashed into an fron guard rail and then severed a ‘fiesTod in the center span. As the tie-rod snapped, the flooring collapsed under a second truck, the report in- dicated, and threw the machine and Its occupants to the bottom of a 15- ‘foot ravine. e Inspected Last Week. »« Highway Commissioner Henry G. Shirley, who ordered a department ‘examination of the wrecked bridge, said the span was inspected last week #nd found in good condition. ‘The engineers’ findings specifically "#xing responsibility on the driver of the first truck were made public sev- eral hours after Mr. Shirley’s state- ment. F. M. Minton was the driver of the first truck, He was injured, but not seriously. e ‘4 WORKMEN KILLED IN PLUNGE OF TRUCK Seven Others Injured as Vehicle Is Crowded Off Road in Virginia. By the Associated Press. DILLWYN, Va., September 3.—A | truck carried four- colored workmen | to death in a plunge over an em- | bankment yesterday near Gold Hill, | Buckingham County. ‘i Seven others were injured, two | seriously, when «-the truck was crowded off the road by an automo- bile and catapulted down the slope, | rolling over twice. The dead: Lee Bailey, 50, of Lynchburg; James | * Griff, 35; John Wesley Brown, 59, and * Paul Spauldin, 32, all of Farmville. ¢t Seriously injured were Willie Redd, ¥ driver of the fruck, and Junius Wal- ker, both of Farmuille. | Earnest Hayes, Richard Brown, ¢ Prancis Smith, Rithard Walker and Henry Davis Allen, also of Farmville, | ¢« Were less seriously hurt, All the injured were removed to ‘ Bouthside Hospital at Farmville. The 11 workmen were en route to Pal- tyra, where they were employed on ' the construction of a new school building. The driver of the automo- | bile, which survivors said crowded | the truck from the road, continued | on his way, apparently unaware of the accident. ‘Well, He Didn’t. Fined in court in Cardiff, Wales, for #itting in a car which did not belong to hiin, Alfred Johnson said he did so because his friends bet him he could | Bot drive. BOTHPARTIES SET WORKERS RALLES Maryland Democrats and G. 0. P. Set Up Offices in Same Hotel. Bv the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, September 3 —Dem- ocrats and Republicans set up head- quarters almost next door to one another in a Baltimore hotel and rallied their workers for series of meetings within the next 10 days. Mrs, Willlam P. Lawson, wife of the chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, and herself na- tional committeewoman for Maryland, issued invitations for a Landon birth- day luncheon on September 9. Republican leaders will open the Landon-Knox campaign in Howard County at a rally tonight at Brendel Manor. Democratic leaders of all factions in Maryland will aid in launching formally the Roosevelt-Garner re- election campaign in Baltimore City MAN, NUDE, ARRESTED AFTER WEEK IN FOREST Virginian, 82, Charged With Beat- ing Mother and Burning er Home. By the Assoclated Press. PALMYRA, Va., September 3.— Combing the Fluvanna countryside with bloodhounds, officers “yesterday found Rawleigh BSearcy, 22, and charged him with burning his mother’s home in the Antioch section a week ago. . He was entirely without clothing and had survived for a week on gooseberries and other wild food found in the forests, officers said. He was ordered held for the next Fluvanna grand jury session and arrangements made to hold a lunacy commission. The youth is charged with having beaten his mother in a fit of anger before setting fire to the house. 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