Coalville Times | 1903-08-07 | Page 2 | Bridge Collapsed

BRIDGE COLLAPSED. Thrss Killed and a Number Injured at Portland, Oregon. A section of the brldgo which spans th Wllllnmette river at Morris street. Portland. Oro., collapsed shortly short-ly after S o'clock Friday afternoon, precipitating tnord thnn loo people forty for-ty feet Into the water. Three people aro known to have bi-n drowned ane It 1 feared that the lint of dead will be much larger when all are accounted account-ed for. Many struck on two small boat-house boat-house moored to a pier of the bridge Immediately under the spot where It gave way. About twenty five were Injured, either by striking on ths boat houses or by falling timbers.; Many pisiple fell from tl . roofs of the boathouscK Into the water, but dozens of small boats nnd launches In the id- j elnlty In nn Incredibly short time commenced com-menced to pick them up. Thousands , of people had gathered on the bridge to watch an armless man swim tbe , river.