QUEBEC BRIDGE DISASTER.
Received September 16, 10.55 p.m. OTTAWA, September 16. The Commission enquiring into the Quebec bridge disaster elicited that the structural defects were observed days before.the collapse of the bridge. The foreman's protests weye disregarded. (The largest cantilever bridge in the world, 7/bich was being built over the St. Lawrence at Quebec, collapsed recently, and nearly one hundred persons" were killed, chiefly American workmen. The bridge,-was a mile and a half long. A section of 800 ft collapsed when it was being traversed by a train laden with iron material).
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8536, 17 September 1907, Page 5
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92QUEBEC BRIDGE DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8536, 17 September 1907, Page 5
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