Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1898 — Brooklyn Bridge Has Sagged. [ARTICLE]

Brooklyn Bridge Has Sagged.

New York, Aug. 4. —The bent truss In the Brooklyn bridge structure, which has caused so much alarm to the general public, has not yet been replaced by a new one. It is said by local engineers that the bridge has sagged many inches since the buckling of the understay on Saturday, and that the erch of the main span has sunk near to the horizontal line.