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Show A 1 oo ' ENGINES ARE TOO BIG FOR BRIDGE i ' Needles, Cal., July 21. A small army of men commenced today the '' work of cutting in two the span of 'the Santa Fo railroad's great cantilever canti-lever bridge across- the Colorado river near this point. For years this span has been the f longest cantilever bridge in the world, hut the great weight of the new type engines now In use made the bridge unsafe, and for eight months engineers engi-neers have been constructing a pier In the center of the bridge to divide the strain. |