SUSPENSION BRIDGE BREAKS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10403, 17 July 1912, Page 4

SUSPENSION BRIDGE BREAKS.

■■l ■’ <fol II DRIVERS AND HORSES FALL. 300 FEET AT UTIKU. Special to Advocate* A serious accident occurred atrUtiku last evening. As two teams with trollevs loaded with legs were crossing the suspension bridge a fe Messrs Gibbs and Go, ’s sawmill afc Utiku the bridge gave way and the drivers, horses nand logs were precipitated into the Hautapa Elver, a fail of 200 feet. Nothing has been, seen of anything since. Fortunately owing to the wet weather, several buehmen, whousually go home oa ! the trolleys,, walked home. A Press Association message saysi one of the side cables gave out, tipping all into the river. , The men wore named Ernest Pink: and Richard Hopwood, and batte were single.