Show SUSPENSION BRIGE BRIDGE CRASHED DOWN Three Girls Killed nd Five Persons Seriously Injured at I w Va Knew the 0 Structure Was Unsafe HARLESTON w Va Dec Dec 15 CHARLESTON Ii Three Demons arc known to have been killed andl and fv five others sell Injured by the collapse e of tHe tae suspension bridge acoss across ther lk river which connects East and wes harles harleston ton At the time the thc went down there there were six and Ix children on their way to s school hool and anda a number of other pedestrians on the structure The bridge went down without warning but a Jumber number of those who werE were near the ends of the structure managed to reach Imd land Those who went vent down wih with th wreck wreckage wreckage age Cel fell a distance of forty feet feet into the the waters of the river The depth ot of the river at Is at from ten to twenty feet and when the iron and umber lumber wreckage struck the Ice It broke Into fragments and those killed and several of the Injured were thrown into Ino the water or swept under the Ice further down th stream Dead Mamie Higginbotham aged year Annie Humphreys Humphre s aged l lOle 17 Ole Ollie Gibbs aged 15 Injured Zela Zella Smith aged Ii 17 compound frac fracture ture ot of elbow 2 t I William Holmes colored and bruised Henr Fielder driver sed serious in internal injuries rles Elma Tucker aged 13 both arms and leg broken to Be e Unsafe The brIdge was a single span feet In length and wa was built In 1 12 2 It t has been known JO to q e f 9 time an and e f db to i tie ac Jd n Io Ioto w cables on ht i r n side slipping from their moorings When IThen that side dropped another cable on n the other side Bide snapped the 00 tilted and turned completely over During the civil war var the cable of this thi m bride e was cut by General Wise when L U the e evacuated Charleston the bridgi at the the same time being party partly burned The same cable was afterwards ards spliced I I and has been In use ever since |