Show FRANTIC RELATIVES RUSH TOOF TO LEARN OF LOVED ONES HURLED HUM ONTO INTO TORRENT BY COLLAPSE Kelso Washington Scene of Tragedy When Sus Sus- Suspension Sus- Sus Suspension Suspension pension Bridge Breaks Dropping Scores of Pedestrians and Many Automo Automo- Automobiles Automobiles Automobiles biles Into Cowlitz River T ELSO Wash Jan By 4 4 By the Associated Press Names Press Names of l leight L eight missing persons were known while estimates of the num num- ber lost ran as high as 30 when rescue parties resumed today their search of the wreckage strewn flood waters of the Cowlitz river into which the old suspension bridge here bearing scores of men and women collapsed at 5 o'clock last night From 50 to pedestrians one truck and at lea least t 10 passenger auto auto- automobile automobiles mobile mobiles were ere ere on the bridge when hen It tell fell The structure lave gLe gL e ay In the midst ot of o a traffic jam caused by a stalled car Most of ot the persons on the bridge were thrown Into the swirling river and many were picked up by boats or ors s swam sam am ashore A After fler darkness darness efforts to er bodies were vere futile though the river steamer Pomona lured by the th hope that there might be b life Ilie In the deb deb- debi i rig ris breasted the th swift current during the night to play a a searchlight over the scene But earl early this thia thi morning I no bodies had been found Of Ot those rescued one was fatallY Injured and died this morning Sev- Sev Seven Seven Sev Seven SevI en others otner ere taken from the water I seriously hurt I The missing Include Ben Barr county elect commissioner Mr and nd I Mrs Irs A G Huntington pioneer resi- resi residents residents resi residents dents or of o Kelso and several employee lot logging companies RII rI Ill Fit TIC Early today there was a rush of frantic relatives es seeking some word ot or lost loved ones and a a constantly growing list ot of missing persons The exact e act death toll may not be 0 11 rot Cot oi several do days as the awol len len waters of ot the tir Cowlitz and the Co- Co Columbia Columbia Co Columbia lumbia Into which It flows about two miles belo below this city ma may swirl the bodies of ot the victims many mile miles Tho The bridge bridga connected East Ea t and West Kel Kelso o A cable support buckled and t the tho 0 bridge threw truck trucks auto auto- automobile mobiles mobile and wagons and their pas pas- pasI passengers pas passengers I Into the torrent swollen wollen by bv recent Hoods floods Mani leaped to safety as the th span sank Had tho the bridge e collapsed a few tew minutes earlier the loss loas of oC life lite would woula have been greatly multiplied Dur Dur- During Dur- Dur During ing the tha workmen had been repairs on the draw which was WIlS partially raised at times I ie he minutes before the accident at the th close lot f one o of the these e periods period ot of work of ot cars wro ere backed up at either approach together with many pedestrians waiting wilting to cross This press of ot traffic had dwindled to ap- ap approximately approximately proximately the normal evening load when the bridge crashed CRASH Survivors told almost Identical stor elor- stor- stor stories stories ies les of ot the snap and crash of ot the tho tail fall tailIng fall falling ing the sudden plunge Into the racing rh J and the battle for tor life In the muddy current currant To ro lm ashore encumbered with heavy cloth cloth- clothing clothing ing mg was as a test to be met only hy by hythe bythe bythe the strongest and most adept a II fact attested by the circumstances that of ot the sun survivors 1 Ot'S were sero ere pulle pullet from tho the rl ri river el er three blocks below th the w rec E Exploration of ot the tho wreckage was wa not attempted last night 0 owing ing to a a fear that bodies u which might be beI I caught among th the timbers would be released and carried away In too tea t a darkness This was begun with day daylight day day- daylight light and an endeavor also was madE to grapple for submerged automo automo- automobilE's automobiles biles bilE's in which bodies might be held I the he estimate of or the th number roe res cued res cued from the river riser was ass forty J r I Hamilton a notion en- en engineer en engineer s Iner a witness of the disaster corn com commented Some w v ill say that the height of oC the rl river riser Er and and the log jam that had ha accumulated against It weakened the structure and caused it to collapse I cannot agree with this for tor or on onI only I d a afew few tew days das ago I Inspected the lie piers and the they were ere not weakened It was the cable which broke for some n reason possibly at the impact of a hea heay jar Scant as the warning was at the snapping of the cable many m ny pedestrians pedestrians inane on the bridge raced to safet and in ne g two Instances automo automobiles LlEs LlE's wore ere baled backed away Q as the chasm gaped gapel before them Deputy Coronel William V ii an anNote anNote Note who sho ho saw taw the crash this morning that 20 O to 25 bodies and 15 to 18 13 I automobiles were ere In the rh ri or er I Three dh divers ers were expected e here to aid in sifting the w re i |