Show RIVER TAKES MANI LIVES LEVEN NAMES ARE LISTED AS MISSING FIXING OF 0 DEATH LIST impossible suspending cable of structure snaps with loud report and tower topples into coq colitz fiver kelso authorities la in charge ot of rescue work e expressed the elie heifer belief that the me dead as a result or 0 the coi aise of the kelso bridge aboss the cowlitz river here wednesday my may run as high as eighty all sources were ot of the opinion however that it will be to establish definitely how many persons lost their lles owning to tle impossibility ol of establishing tile exact number dumber on oil the bridge whee the cables snapped and the great structure with its human freight went lur blag into the turbulent muddy river waters the arde built la in auw an was timber constructed suspension type lor for l or two weeks it las has beba bce i subjected to the pressure of 0 a jam of 0 logs loge which had bad broken loose aid aad pled up against tile the piers officers had ticen been stationed at the approaches to regulate traffic when the bridge arld was crowded to capacity by men returning from work A suspending cable running through truckle blocks at the top of the east end towers snapped sapped with a loud report between the towers a jack knife draw was as supported and aad when the cast end caile snapped ped releasing the tension at the west end three supporting towers splintered and top pied into the river much of the wreckage jamming against the abut writs of a new steel bridge a short distance downstream the draw opened like a trapdoor persons upon it slip slipping nn into tie the water twenty teet feet helow below the middle span adan between LOO and 00 teet feet in a length flipped over coer and aad threw ten automobiles and trucks and a two horse borse team s of pedestrians lato the swollen cowlitz hurling toler to ler timbers and roadway vaal dag on oa top of them some of the fallen timbers offered a means of escape to those la in the water who grasped them and ad remained afloat until help arrived but in many other cases the arecca wr ecca crushed life from the terrified ilc ic tims time the brecka wreckage e was wag immediately made fast to 0 o the new bridge in the hope that the imprisoned bodies ot of the dead could he be saved from the swirling current and recovered river Ete steamers amers and launches poel thair wainam the areeta le and all ani ht rescue parties worked to recover bodies they were hampered hy by darkness and the dizh water which due die to recent warm heavy rains Is fifteen teet feet above normal |