Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1908 — TRACTION ENGINE FALLS WITH BRIDGE. [ARTICLE]

TRACTION ENGINE FALLS WITH BRIDGE.

Eck and Levi Kuboski, wtile crossing an iron bridge over the Eck ditch, on the road between Jordan and Carpenter tps., last Wednesday evening went through the bridge with a traction engine and water tank. The bridge is a total wreck having gone down with the engine, and the queer part of the whole affair is, the same engine had crossed the same bridge twice the day before the accident! The engine stood on end and it Is almost miraculous how the men escaped without being crushed to Thursday, while taking the engine out of the ditch, Mr. Eck got his arm badly bruised, and in getting the iahk out it tipped over and his 14-year-old son got his leg badly cut and his ankle bruised. The bridge was only built in 1900 and had just been repaired where the

water had washed out the abutment, but J. Prank Hanly's bridge inspectors who were here sneaking around over the county “inspecting bridges” some weeks ago evidently did not see this one.