COLLAPSE OF A BRIDGE
MANY PEOPLE DROWNED. 1 (Rec. September 11, 11.5 p.m.) New York, September 10. According' to a message from Chester, Pennsylvania, twenty men, woipen, and children are known to have beqti drowned and! et least twenty more are believed to be at the bottom of a tributary of the Delaware River as the result of an old wooden bridge collapsing. A little boy had fallen into the water, and crowdscongregated on the bridge to, watch the rescue, wi th the result that the structure became overloaded l . Besides the above casualties, forty persons were injured.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 299, 12 September 1921, Page 4
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101COLLAPSE OF A BRIDGE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 299, 12 September 1921, Page 4
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