Betsy Wright left the Bridge a minute or two before it fell.
Alfred Norman on hearing a cracking noise ran off on the West side of the Bridge, when he saw the Bridge fall.
Eleanor Eliza Allman says, a man called out that the Bridge would fall, and she ran off; she said “In about five minutes after the Bridge fell.”
Robert Whitlock left the Bridge to look for his brother, and the Bridge fell before he returned.
A little boy named Jay, son of Mr. Jay, baker, White Lion Gates, said that when he was under the water, the people looked as if they were hugging each other. He could see them quite perfectly.
One man fell across a piece of iron with his head just above water; he reached to two girls who were struggling for life, and a third caught hold of his collar. All four were saved.
A young man named Simmons, (whose leg was also fractured in extricating them from the bended iron of the Bridge with a crowbar).
Robert Marshall, aged 16, escaped with a scalp wound.
Sarah Linder, aged 12, Bow 132, was also rescued with a wounded scalp.
Martha Ann Stolworthy, aged 7 years.