Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1914 — Build Island to Construct Bridge. [ARTICLE]

Build Island to Construct Bridge.

With the completion of the Pambau channel viaduct connecting Tonitural in India with Pamban on the Island of Rameswaram the first link has been forged in the railway line between the south end of the’lndian peninsula and the island of Ceylon. This viaduct is 6,776 feet long. Rail connection 1$ made across the island of Danishkodi and then by steamer across a 22-mile strait to the island of Manar to which point the* Ceylon railway system has been extended. To facilitate the woijk of sinking the bridge cylinders an artificial island, made of coral boulders and concrete in sacks, was created, one on each side of the stretch of water. This bridge was made by Indian labor, under two contractors. There was intense and sometimes by no means friendly rivalry between the' two ctews of workers.