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Show BRIDGE COLLAPSED. Twenty-one Workmen Burled Under Falling Bridge In California. Auburn, Cal. Twenty-one men were burled lute Snturday night under un-der a collapsing cement bridge across the American river. Five have been taken out, one dead and four Injured. In-jured. Mr. Smith, the foremnn, who wns himself hurt, says there are sixteen six-teen more men In the river. The bridge Is being built by the Mountain Moun-tain Quarries company on their railroad rail-road running from Auburn to the lime work of the Portland Cement company com-pany near Cod. In F.Morado county. The span is 300 feet long and eighty fift shove the river. It is said to be the biggest concrete bridge In the world. |