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The Quebec Bridge under construction in 1907.
August 29th of the same year, the bridge, four years into it’s construction, would collapse into the St. Lawrence within 15 seconds, leaving 75 out of a total 86 workers dead. By 1916 another take on the bridge was underway, when on September 11th the central span collapsed and 15 workers died. The bridge opened in 1919 after 16 years of work.
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Edison Company engineering department, Los Angeles, June 3, 1913
Bodies being recovered after the sinking of the SS Eastland on July 24, 1915, where 844 passengers and crew drowned after the ship rolled over while still tied to the dock on the Chicago River. Most of the passengers were employees of the Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne Works in Illinois, who were on their way to a company picnic in Indiana. Something happened on the river to draw the attention of passengers, who all went to port side to see. This caused to boat to list.
