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Show TEnniDLn tinman DisABTnn. IttnHrss. lllAr.ml I l.htr M.n Bra llurlnl lain III ,ltiliig llli.r ll.lntv, llogansburg, N Y., SepL 7 Two (pans of the International brldgo of the New York A Ottawa railroad, now under construction across tho St. Lawrence river, fell without warning, with eighty-two men at work ou the bridge, all lielng thrown Into the river tomo sixty feet below. Oror thirty-clifht thirty-clifht were picked up and taken to Cornvt all hospital and thirty are now missing. Tho bridge consist of threo spans, of wh ich tno were complete, and the third was nearly completed when the south pier gnvo way nt It foundation. causing lioth spans to fall Into sixty feet ot water, taking Its load of human freight wlthlL Tho construction ot tha bridge was In tho hand of competent nud reliable contractors, nnd was considered perfectly per-fectly safe, but It seems that the swiftness swift-ness of tho current was underestimated. |