Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-25
HEAT BREAKS BRIDGE
The Great Brooklyn Suspension
Bridge Damaged by the
Intense Heat.
Suspension Rods Severed by
Heat Expansion.--Trolley
Cars Are Stopped.
Engineer Says There Is No Dan.
ger OF the Great Struc-
ture Falling.

New York July % There was
break Yesterday in the structural steel
work OF the Brooklyn bridge, the most
serious i'll the history OF The structure.
Just at the evening rush hour. a little
after o'clock, all train and trolley
suatfc on the bridge was stopped by the |
peiee, as a precautionary measure.
several hundred thousand persons ask
sd why and the answers from .olce-
'nen ard Brook!yn RAPID Transit OH |
Gals II ihe Manhattan end We're all
sonieghtns like this:
The bridge IS broke. That's all We
knew about t. You can walk over
lileoklyn walked home in "a mighty
army. iiidn2 the promenade full and
overnewing into the rqadways. Lucky
Ms the man u woman Who could Clam |
bsr q! a truck, and the trueknan cel-
lscte9 farss.
What mad happened out on the middle
span was This TNelveot he steai sus-I
pension rods connecting the extreme
leith abb with the outside ends oi Tie
transverse s:i1tsrs whien support the. 4
.9aGways. tracks and fo@tSvay We're
sreken because II the eSpans n On ae
s,pe Tae 4 ths c.s,,ss ets.sfs ly S'h,sf
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|. bridge haa been trained = eNpeet &c
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+ borough on foot Al immense Jam 9
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!. his Mid in about ten minutes, ana
large part Of the marehers We're PERM
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