BRIDGE COLLAPSES
HUNDRED KILLED; SCORES
HURT.
(United Press Association—By Electric ; Telegraph—Copyright.)
MOSCOW, September 11
One hundred workers were drowned and scores injured when the newest section of the great bridge across the River Oka, near Nijninovgorod, collapsed. Many fell on a .passing barge, ,on which a mass of steel dropped, sending it to the bottom. Simultaneously the steam boilers exploded, killing and injuring many more.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1932, Page 6
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