Emery County Progress | 1907-09-07 | Page 5 | Bridge Goes down Killing Scores

new idge under construction near quebec canada collapses and Wor kiren are drowned nearly half of the br dg wh ch was a mile and a half long went into the raver carry ng the doomed men down to death quebec canada the nw bridge under construction about five miles below the city collapsed late thurs day afternoon and fifty of the corli men are known to have met their death in the seething waters while the total may reach one hundred when all ot the workmen who were engaged in the construction of the mammoth bridge when the accident occurred are accounted tor the bridge was about a mile and a half long and was nearly nearly halt ot the fated structure beginning at the south shore fell into the river and the hundreds of worl men were precipitated into the rag ing waters without a moment s warn ing A steamer with thirty doctors and newspaper men was rushed to the scene of the accident as soon as the message ot the horrible occurrence iad reached the city and those who had been able to escape from the wa ers were made as comfortable as po bible and the work of recovering the bodies of their unfortunate corn begun I 1