Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-25 | Page 1 | Ice Gorge Carries out Crowded Bridge

ICE GORGE CARRIES OUT CROWDED BRIDGE Three Dead, One Fatally Injured and Others Hurt In Nebraska Disaster. By International News Service. BROCKSBURG, Neb., March 24. Two .persons were drowned, one fatally injured in-jured and one probably fatally hurt at 3 o'clock, when an ice gorge swept out a bridge over the Keya Paha river here. The whole town had gone down to the bridge to watch the flood. Forty persons were on the bridge Itself and 100 more on the banks. The Ice struck the bridge and tipped it over. In the mad scramble for the banks, a dozen persons were hurled into the icv water. Mrs. Eliza Wakesfleld, 70, of Brocks-burg Brocks-burg and Sylvia Wales, 16, of Gregory, S. D., were drowned. Their bodies have not been recov ered. Judson Stuart, 45, a farmer of Brocks-burg, Brocks-burg, was so badly injured that he died two hours later. Mrs. Arnold Hudson of Brocksburg, a sister of Sylvia Wales, was knocked unconscious un-conscious in the Ice jam and miraculously was forced on top of a cake of Ice. She floated on tho Ice for a mile downstream while FA Macumber of Brocksburg raced along tho shore on horseback. Finally Macumber got ahead of the cake of Ice and his horse swam out into the stream. Macumber picked Mrs. Hudson off the cake and made his way to the shore. His legs were mashed by the ice and his nose was bleeding when he reached shore.