Clay County GA Archives Newspapers 1868 Bridge Disaster/Men Killed This file contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Lindy Hard" ********************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store this file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/clay.htm Table of Contents page http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Georgia Table of Contents ********************************************************************************** Not an obituary in the true sense of the word, but an explaination of several deaths: "Cuthbert Appeal" Newspaper/Randolph Co GA/10 Sept 1868 "From the Fort Gaines Chatahoochee Mirror extra we extract the following particulars relating to the late terrible bridge disaster. About thirty hands were employed on the bridge--many were working underneath--and a large number of spectators were also on the bridge at the time it fell. All went down together, from an altitude of about 80 feet. Among the killed and wounded we could learn only the names of the following. Killed, John C Hill, Sheriff of Clay, Hooker Stevens, missing and supposedly killed, James Middleton, colored, and Jerry Sutton; wounded mortally, Wm A Jackson, J L Peters, Robert Brown, and Andrew Newsom colored; wounded slightly, Wm. Walden, W. H. Jernigan, W. G. Jernigan, and Wm. Mount. We did not learn the names of all the colored wounded _____[blurred] that went down with the bridge, have not up to this time been heard of." .........[article continues announcing the advent of the Mirror]