Show defects in design cost eighty lives ottawa ont the report of the royal commission on the collapse ot of the quebec bridge in which eighty lives were lost wag was presented to par diament on monday the commission finds that the collapse was due to defects in design and that the part parth of the bridge which first gave way were the lower chords in the anchor arrangement near the main pier the design for the chords that tailed failed was made by P L the designing engineer of the phoenix brids bridge e corn com pony |