Show BRIDGE COLLAPSED three K lied and a number injured at portland oregon A section of the bridge which spans the Wllliam ette river at morris street portland ore collapsed short ly after 3 0 clock friday afternoon precipitating more than people for ty feet into the water three people are known to have been drowned anu it Is feared that the list of dead wll will be much larger when all are account ed for many struck on two small boat houses moored to a pier of the bridge immediately under the spot where it gave way about twenty five were injured either by striking on the boathouses boat houses or by falling timbers many people fell from tl roots roofs of the boathouses into the water rater but dozens dozene of small boats and launches in the vi cikity in an incredibly short time corn cont fenced to pick them up thousands ot of people had gathered on the bridge to watch an armless man ecim tale river |