Eureka Reporter | 1904-12-30 | Page 5 | Wires Suspended in Air

WIRES SUSPENDED IN alre peculiar happening followed washing away of br or dge I 1 ast march occurred the highest and most dangerous floods at of water con ice fee snow and wreckage on the various rivers of 0 the middle west that has happened within the memory of the oldest inhabitant it was owing to the unusually long and severe win ter which brought misery and suffer ing to thousands throughout the varl oua ous central and northern states and in the spring bi ought havoc havo C and danger to the people along the river bottoms the maumee river in ohio by the detroit and cincinnati line at Wat waterville erville in that state some six miles south of the town of maumee W it 0 I 1 4 f f I 1 to 0 f 11 N 10 il 0 7 4 N i A A W X 44 A 0 W A I 1 I 1 7 I 1 1 t z ra xa 4 e v I 1 was a scene seene of unprecedented destruct tion the swift running stream carry ing all before it even the strong iron bridge of the most modern pattern which makes tour four spans across the water and over which with the poles strongly secured to the iron structure itself run forty strands of no 8 copper wire anticipating that the bridge would go down a wrecking party was sent with cable ready to re pair the break but great was the sur prise of all interested in the non when the crash finally came and the ponderous weight of iron swept down as it if made of yellow pine the huge poles dragging at the forty wires above and drawing tons on tons as the bridge washed away suddenly snapped four of them leaving every wire intact and the upper stumps suspend ed in midair