“GOLDEN GATE” BRIDGE
MEN FALL 200 FEET INTO SEA TEN BELIEVED TO BE DEAD (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) SAN FRANCISCO, February 17. Ten men are believed to have been killed when steel and wooden construction forms on which they were working crashed from the Golden Gate bridge and plunged into the water 200 feet below. Officials said it was inconceivable that the men could have survived. Eight bodies are believed to have been swept out to sea. It is reported that a coastguard cutter recovered two. The workers were stripping temporary forms from the bridge deck when a carrier wheel snapped, the forms swayed dizzily and then crashed into the safety net which was unable to withstand the strain and the rearing mass plunged down', strong tides sweeping all out to sea. This is the first serious accident since the construction of the bridge was opened in May. Thirteen men actually fell. One saved himself by clutching a rope and two were rescued by a coastguard. One body has been recovered and the nine others have been given up for dead. The two men rescued from the water were treated at hospital for shock and sent home apparently uninjured.
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Southland Times, Issue 23128, 19 February 1937, Page 5
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