Show TRUCK demolishes COUNTY BRIDGE 60 41 Z above photo shows heavy equipment in creek bed following collapse of state highway bridge here 0 0 the east canyon creek bridge went down into the creek saturday afternoon when a huge truck and trailer laden with a caterpillar attempted to cross it cole wilkinson who was driving the outfit was wag safely lately across the pan in hi his truck cab when the structure gake gae way spilling the caterpillar er into the creek with the aid of huge cables and a tractor the tha trailer was waa dragged out and by 7 pm sunday evening the caterpillar was wag sate safe on dry land little the worse tor for its overnight dunking bunking in the creek the bridge la is about a mile west on the state road and residents of richville now have to detour by way ot of the county road from fro la rich illch villa to the porterville highway littleton residents have to use the stoddard county cross road meanwhile the state road corn com mission I 1 is S investigating the 3 situation and it will be some time before it will be known know n whether the bridge will be repaired or rebuilt cost of replacing the bridge with a wider sturdier structure will run for to it was estimated A number of accidents and deaths have occurred in the past at this bridge and a now new and wider one would be an asset to the valley |