"While commendable actions occurred in the aftermath of the Gasconade Bridge Disaster, there was also the reprehensible. In the weeks following this tragic event, newspapers reported stories of a dark nature. ... " [More]
Little Germany On the Missouri: The Photographs of Edward J. Kemper, 1895-1920 Edited by, Anna Kemper Hesse University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri, 1998 (Page: 43)
New Haven: Its Past and People By, David Menke Leader Publishing Company, New Haven, Missouri, 2002 (Pages: 37 & 47)
Lives, Legends, & Laughs By, David Menke Leader Publishing Company, New Haven, Missouri, 2006 (Page: 16)
Gasconade County, Missouri Family History Book Volume II Turner Publishing Company, Paducah, Kentucky, 2003 (Page: 68)
Periodicals:
“An Eastern Division Chronicle: The Gasconade River Bridge Wrecks 1855 and 1896” By, G. J. Michaels, Jr. The Eagle Missouri Pacific Historical Society Fall, 1991 Vol. 16 No. 3 (Page: 17)
Newspapers:
The Perrysburg Journal (Perrysburg, Ohio) November 17, 1855
Web Sites:
Remembering the Gasconade Disaster By, Bob Aubuchon Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
A Look Back: Disaster at Bridge In 1855 Derails St. Louis Dream for A Transcontinental Railroad. By, Tim O’Neal toneil@post-dispatch.com November 4, 2012
Gasconade Bridge Disaster Wikipedia Updated – Sept. 8, 2019"
"The world’s first all-steel railroad bridge went into service on ... November 1, in 1879. The bridge, built by the civil engineer Gen. William Sooy Smith (1830-1916) for the Chicago & Alton railroad, crossed the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri. The 2,700-foot-long five-span Whipple through truss was a marvel for its time but was soon overshadowed by similar constructions; by the 1890s, nearly all new railroad bridges were all-steel construction." —Hagley Museum and Library
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Little Germany On the Missouri: The Photographs of Edward J. Kemper, 1895-1920
Edited by, Anna Kemper Hesse
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri, 1998
(Page: 43)
New Haven: Its Past and People
By, David Menke
Leader Publishing Company, New Haven, Missouri, 2002
(Pages: 37 & 47)
Lives, Legends, & Laughs
By, David Menke
Leader Publishing Company, New Haven, Missouri, 2006
(Page: 16)
Gasconade County, Missouri Family History Book Volume II
Turner Publishing Company, Paducah, Kentucky, 2003
(Page: 68)
Periodicals:
“An Eastern Division Chronicle: The Gasconade River Bridge Wrecks 1855 and 1896”
By, G. J. Michaels, Jr.
The Eagle
Missouri Pacific Historical Society
Fall, 1991
Vol. 16 No. 3
(Page: 17)
Newspapers:
The Perrysburg Journal
(Perrysburg, Ohio)
November 17, 1855
Web Sites:
Remembering the Gasconade Disaster
By, Bob Aubuchon
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
A Look Back: Disaster at Bridge In 1855 Derails St. Louis Dream for A Transcontinental Railroad.
By, Tim O’Neal
toneil@post-dispatch.com
November 4, 2012
Gasconade Bridge Disaster
Wikipedia
Updated – Sept. 8, 2019"
"The world’s first all-steel railroad bridge went into service on ... November 1, in 1879. The bridge, built by the civil engineer Gen. William Sooy Smith (1830-1916) for the Chicago & Alton railroad, crossed the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri. The 2,700-foot-long five-span Whipple through truss was a marvel for its time but was soon overshadowed by similar constructions; by the 1890s, nearly all new railroad bridges were all-steel construction." —Hagley Museum and Library
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