Show BRIDGE FALLS KILLING THREE six children and six team teams plunged erf into ley water three bemons u are known to have been killed and five other others seriously injured by the collapse col lapee ot of the huspen tion ton bridge across the elk river which connects east and west charleston W va at the time the bridge treat went down there were six teams and six children on their way to school bind and a number of other pedestrian pedestrians on the structure the bridee bridge went down without warning but a number ot of those who were near bear the end ends ot of the structure truc ture managed to reach land those who went down with the wreckage fell ell a dis dl tance of forty feet into the icy covered water waters of the river 1 the depth of the river 1 at this point Is 1 variously estimated at from ton fn to twenty feet and when the tron iron and lumber wreckage truck struck the ice it broke into fragments and those killed and everal several of the injured were thrown into the water or swept un der the ice farther down the stream during the tha civil war the cable ot of thi this bridge wa was cut by general WM when he evacuated charleston the bridge at the same time being partly burned the ame same cable waa was afterward spliced and hae has been in use over since |