Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1914 — Lafayette Suffers Damage From Ice ami High Water. [ARTICLE]

Lafayette Suffers Damage From Ice ami High Water.

The temporary' bridge erected over the Wabash river at Lafayette last summer at •an expense of $ 15,000, by the street railway company and and county following the disastrous spring floods, was washed out Friday night and communication between Lafayette and West Lafayette, Purdue and the Soldiers’ Home, was. cut off by street car, The damage was < aused by immense quantities of ice floating down the river and the high water. Large quantities of dynamite were used ■ riday night in the hope of saving the bridge by diverting the ice mass to the east channel, but this proved unavailing, and the structure fell into the river. It was feared that the ice would damage the work already done on the new main street bridge, which is in course of construction, the abutments for which were all or practically all in.