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Show lu Avon ESriclge IMsnsler. Bath, G. At Widcomb from 100 to 200 persona, mqstly well-to-do farm-era, farm-era, were upon the tell bridge leading from the railway platform when it fell. It was a light wooden structure, about thirty feet long and thirty to forty feel high, without a centre support. sup-port. It snapped in the middle and tho ends were wrenched clean ofl, when the whole mass was pluuged into tho stream, which was about seven feet deep. The work of rescuing rescu-ing is going on. ' Evening. It is now estimated that about twelve persons were killed and fifty-uue injured, some fatally, by the fall of the Widcomb bridge. |