Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1911 — TWO BRIDGES GO DOWN [ARTICLE]

TWO BRIDGES GO DOWN

Trains Precipitated into Channels of Swollen Streams. Serious Wreck Narrowly Averted in Colorado by Dispatcher Changing Plan. Grand Junction, Colo, July 21. — A wreck in which scores of passengers might have been killed were averted when, contrary to custom, a freight train on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad preceded the transcontinental express a few minutes but of Dubeque and crashed through a bridge over which the express train was due to .■pass a few minutes later The freight had waited at Debeque for the express to pass, but the dispatcher finally allowed it to go ahead. The freight’s engine had passed over the bridge when the structure gave way, allowing four cars and the tender to fall a distance of forty feet. The engine and The rear end of the train remained on the tracks. No one was injured. The bridge had been weakened by the swelling of the stream due to a cloudburst