CANAL BLOCKED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 238, 8 October 1941, Page 7

CANAL BLOCKED

Traffic Brought To Standstill By Collapse Of Bridge

CAX AD A-A M ERICA BORDER Rec. 11 a.m. OTTAWA, Oct. 7. The Associated Press of Great Britain correspondent at Sault Ste. Marie Canadian S >f te -f th^ t -., the mammoth r bridge across the |t. Marv s River, connecting Lake Superior and Lake Haron. buckled beneath a freight train early to-day The trains engine-driver and fireman -were killed as the engine j Plunged into the water when one two great spans that lift the I collapsed as the heavily • Canada to 9 ross fr ° m .Canada. The bridge is believed to 1 1 j rg ® st bascule (counterpoised j drawbridge) type in the world. I T^ e bl °ckage has brought the flow jOf iron ore, vitally needed for Lake' C !nnl h?Ch is being shi PP ed from HvV'. Superior ports to a temnorarv halt to-day. Probably four days will pass before the locks are sufficiently ' cleared to provide ■a passage for th« I t 7 laden ore carriers, which in- | elude the largest craft navigating tjie ' Lakes. St. Mary's Canal is one of the world s busiest waterways.