TEN MEN HURLED TO DEATH
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Accideiit on Golden Gate Bridge FALL OF 200 FEET
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(Beceived 18, 2.10 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17. Ten men are believed to havc been killed when steel and woodbh construction fonhs crashed. from the Golden Gate bridge knd plunged to the water 200 feet below Officials said it was inconceivabid that they cbilld have survived. feight bodies are believed to have been swept out to sea. It is reported that a Coast Guard cutter recovered iwo. The workers were stripping temporary forxns from the bridge deek when a carrier-wheel sn&pped. The forms swayed dizzily and then crashed into the safety net. which Was .uiiable to withstand the. Strain and the r earing mass plunged dowii. Sirong itides iare sWeeping out io sea. This is tiie firSt serious ftccident since the . cohstr uctioh of the bridge, which will be opened ih May) begaii.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 29, 18 February 1937, Page 5
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