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Show BANGER TO THE LARGE BRIDGES New York, July 28 A sorlous men ace to the safety of the Brooklyn bridge and the other big East rlvor bridges here has hcen called to the attention of tbe cliy's engineers by a fire which started on the Brooklyn bridge from an exposed electric feed wire. The high power current carried car-ried by the wire ate its way in a few j r.otnents through a fourteen-lne h ! si eel girder, melting portions of tne-r.ictal tne-r.ictal for ten feet of Its length. According Ac-cording to the engineers, a similar I occurence might at any time sever or weaken one of the giant strands which sustain the spans of the structure. auslng a disaster of huge proportions. |