ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times

DATE: Thursday, March 27, 1997               TAG: 9703270038
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: C-3  EDITION: METRO 
DATELINE: BERRYVILLE, VA.

WORKER FALLS FROM BRIDGE; STILL MISSING

He wasn't wearing a life preserver or harness.

For five days, rescuers searched for a construction worker from Winchester who fell 50 feet from a Clarke County bridge into the Shenandoah River.

Several of Donnie Barrow's 11 brothers and sisters were there virtually the whole time, consumed by thoughts of how such a thing could happen to their brother.

The wait continued Wednesday as authorities suspended the search for Barrow, who fell from the Virginia 7 bridge Friday.

Barrow, 31, was working above the water without wearing a life preserver and without being secured by a safety harness, as required by state labor standards.

Barrow was in his first week of working for Associated Marjon Inc. of Ashland.

-ASSOCIATED PRESS

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