Show TERRIBLE BRIDGE DISASTER Iwo Span glio kichty men are hurled loto the riser melon below ho no gansburg ansburg N Y sept 7 two spans pans of the international bridge of the new york ottawa railroad now under construction across the st lawrence river riter fell without warning with eighty two men at work on the bridge all being thrown into the river some sixty feet below over thirty el elshot ht were picked up and taken to cornwall hospital li and thirty are now missing the bridge consists of three spans snarls of wh ich two were complete and the third was nearly completed when the sou south th pier gave way at its foundation causing both spans to fall into sixty feet of water taking its load of hum humin human in freight with it the construction of the bridge was in the hands of competent and reliable contractors and was considered perfectly safe but it seems that the swiftness of the current was underestimated |