Show disaster TIKES TAKES wa ANY LUES ELEVEN CLEVEN NAMES ARE LISTED AS MISSING FIXING OF DEATH LIST impossible suspending cable of structure snaps with loud report and tower topples into cowlitz river nelso kelso authorities in charge ot at rescue work expressed the belief he lief that tile the dead cload as aa a result of the collapse col lapso of the kelso bridge across tile the cow lit river here night may run as high as eighty all sources were ot of tho the opinion how over that it will ile bo to establish definitely how many persons lost their lives owning to tile alio im fifty of establishing tho the exact number on tile ridge when the cables snapped and tho the great structure with its human freight went lurching into the turbulent muddy river waters the bride built in ili 11 was timber constructed suspension type lor for two weeks it has been subjected to the pressure ot of a jani jam of 0 logs which had broken loose and pled up against tho the piers officers had been stationed nt at tho the approaches to regulate traffic when the bridge was wa crowded to capacity by men returning from work A suspending cable running through truckle blocks blacks at the top of the east end towers snapped with a loud report between tho the towers a jack knife draw was supported and when tho the east e end cable snapped releasing the tension at the west end three supporting towers splintered and toppled into the river much or of the wreckage wreck ago jamming against the abutments of a new steel bridge a shirt distance downstream the draw opened like a trapdoor those persons upon it slipping into the water twenty feet below tile tho middle span between 20 and 1100 00 f feet eat in length flipped over and throw threw ton automobiles and trucks and a two lierse team scores of pedestrians into the swollen cowlitz hurling tower timbers and roadway plunking planking on top of them some of the fallen timbers offered a means of 0 escape to those struggling in tho the water who grasped them and remained afloat until holp arrived but in many other the wreckage crushed Ini shod efto from tho the torr led ale le tims |