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Show The Dostructiou of the Omaha Bridge. The Omaha Herald in id account of the bridge dio-uhr onS'tuiday morning last Bays: THE ONLY EYEWITNESS ol the disaster is an intelligent Scandinavian Scan-dinavian by the name of John Pier son, who was able to give a graphic description ol ihenlorm and its inighty i work. He Baid the tempest first began about 8 o'clock, the wind coming com-ing from the northwest with hurricane force. The lightning was incessant and run in streams ofrfire along the iron columns of the bridge. The air was filled with bail, which created an infernal din. Ten or fifteen minutes of this warfare of the elements was kept up without an injury to the Htruclur, when a Budden lull oc-cu:reii,and oc-cu:reii,and the wind suddenly changed to the northeast. At this juncture Piumm came iut of the little guard house, and says he saw a dense black mans coming down the river, which appeared to be balloon shaped, but tapering at each end. It came on with a terrific roar, and burst upun the bridge with DEAFENING TURY. Bforu he could regain bis little house (he catHHirnpt.e had occurred, and he was a prisoner iu Ihe debris At the moment of destruction he ervyi ' glare of electric light. The massive 9 iron structure appeared to be lifted up L to a great height above the piers and duehi-d to the earth with inconceiva : ble force. But as the wind probably - curried him over tha embankment - before it upset the bridge, this may 1 have been an illusion. This is proba i bly true as he afterwards discovered that ouly the telegraph wires had fallen upon him. He was considerably considera-bly bruised about the legs, but not 1 otherwise seriously injured. He says 1 at this moment the SITUATION WAS APPALLING to him, be could scarcely realize whether he was dead or alive, and he had some idea that the end of the world had come. All the time the lightning was playing fearful freaica. it seemed that wind, hail and elec tricity were striving to outdo each other. When he recovered himself and climbed to the top of the grade, the dark, whirling mass of wind and water was epes Jiug away to the south west, and the storm had practically spent its fury. He signalled to tbe 1 watchman on the othei end of the bridge, but received no answer. It was about time the early passenger train starts over the bridge, and the posi hility of another appalling calamity similar to the Ashtabula horror occurred oc-curred to him, and after a few more fruitless e Aorta to arouse the watch 1 man, he procured a akifl and rowed across the treacherous river in the storm and darkness, narrowly escap ing drowning by being dashed upun the piers, aud floundering through the quaking quicksands of the bar under the middle of the bridge, reached the west shore by swimming the second channel. He arrived at the depot only a tew moments before the train was ready to start. Pier aoo's bravery is worthy all praise, for he risked his life undor circumstances of appalling danger, in the perform j ance of a duty that few men in his position would have undertaken. I |