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Went Through A Bridge

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
April
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

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 WheeĆ¼ng 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.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News