Copyright: St. Charles County Historical Society; Origsize: 6 1/2 x 4 1/4; Origformat: Print-Photographic
Name/Title
Bridge Disaster "A Sinister Monument"
Entry/Object ID
240.0757
Description
BridgeDisaster "A Sinister Monument" (now in Oak Grover Cemetery). Collapsed during building of Wabash Railroad Bridge. Eighteen men were killed. 1871. Back of picture reads:
In1870 during the building of the St. Charles (Wabash) R.R. Bridge this iron shaft fell on and killed 18 men all of whom wre buried in a St. Charles cemetery with the implement of their destruction as their monument."
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