Garland Globe | 1908-03-14 | Page 2 | Defects in Design Cost Eighty Lives

Defects In Design Cost Eighty Lives, Ottawa, Ont. Tho roport or tho royqd commission on tho collapse ot tho Quobeo brldgo, In which eighty lives wcro lost, wns presented to parliament par-liament on Monday, Tho commission finds that tho collapso was duo to defects in design and that tho parts of tho brldgo which (list gavo way wero tho lowor chords In tho anchor nrraugomunt noar tho main pier. Tho design for tho chords that failed was mado oy P. U 8lapko, tho designing engineer of tho Phoenix brldpa company.