BRIDGE COLLAPSES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 5 January 1923, Page 5

BRIDGE COLLAPSES.

TWENTY PEOPLE DROWNED,

■it CA-RLE -PRESS ASSOCIA.rjON~tOPYRIGH3 (Received Jan. 5, 8.55 am ) VANCOUVER, Jan. 4. A bridge across the Cowlitz river ii Kelso, Washington State, collapse* whale crowds were going home from tin day's work and twenty were drowned A cable of the bridge, which is 700fi Jong, snapped and one tower fell intt the river and another against a ne^ steel bridge that is being constructed lie central span buckled, hurling scores of pedestrians and several motor cars into the water. Many of the tormer were rescued after clinging to the wreckage. The horror of the scene was heightened by the sudden failure ot the electric light, throwing the entire town into darkness. Huge bonfires were lit and were kept burning all at! n °vi aid Athe rescue workers.—Aus - •N.Z. Cable Assn.