GREAT SUSPENSION BRIDGE.
CABLES YIELD AND GIRDERS SNAP. AN EXCITING TIME. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh New York, July 25. Tho steel cables supporting the
Brooklyn bridge yicldod, and somo girders at tho Manhattan end snapped. There was great excitement. Traffic was stopped for a time, but is now partially resumed. [Thoro is a project on foot for underriver transit by an electric railway. Tho dangerous incidont narrated above will give impetus to tho project.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 167, 26 July 1901, Page 2
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73GREAT SUSPENSION BRIDGE. Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 167, 26 July 1901, Page 2
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