COLLAPSE OF A BRIDGE.
ONE MAN DROWNED AND TWO INJURED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Wednesday. The Star's Whakatane correspondent telegraphed at 9.45 to-day that two concrete spans weighing L 75 tons, a portion of the Whakatane river bridge, collapsed without warning when four men were working underneath and two men on top. A native named J. Herewini was drowned, .T. Henderson sustained a broken leg, fractured rib, and other injuries, and 0. Johnson had an arm .broken. The others escaped injury. Henderson swam ashore a distance of 50 yard?, despite his injuries.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 75, 7 July 1910, Page 5
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92COLLAPSE OF A BRIDGE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 75, 7 July 1910, Page 5
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