People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — Rock Island Bridge Tumbles. [ARTICLE]

Rock Island Bridge Tumbles.

Davenport, lowa, Feb. 26.—With a crash that could be heard for blocks, a 180-foot section of the government bridge dropped into the Mississippi river Tuesday, carrying with it the derricks and other appliances that were ÜBed in the reconstruction that was in progress, and involving in the wreck the cables of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies, the Central Union Telephone company, People’s Light company, and Tri-City Railway company. One workman was injured, Bert Kustard, a Swede, having both legs broken.