Went Through A Bridge

Toledo, O., April 9. - At an early hour Wednesday morning a ponderous steam excavator, puahed alon by a light engine, jumped the track while crossing tho Wheeüng and Lako Erie railway bridga over tlie Mauraee river, and, tearing through' the iron work of the structure, carried the wholo of an eighty-foot span into the river with it. The engine remained on tha track. Elbert Briggs of IronviUe, a switchman, riding on the excavator, was oarried down by it and drowned.