Show BRIDGE COLLAPSED three killed and a number injured at portland oregon A section of the bridge which spans the VAIl lamette river at morris portland ore collapsed shortly after 2 friday afternoon more than people forty fog feet into the water three people are known to have been drowned and it Is feared that the list of dead will be much larger when all are account ed tor for many struck on two small boathouses moored to a pier of the bridge bridga immediately under the spot cherf it gave way about twenty five were injured either cither by striking on th the boathouses boat houses or by falling timbers many people tell fell from tha roots roofs of 0 the boathouses into the water but dozens of small boats and launches in the tha vicinity in fit an incredibly short time commenced to pick them up thousands Thou sanda of people had gathered on the bridge to watch an armless man me river |