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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

"Gasconade Bridge Disaster: The Immediate Aftermath"

"Gasconade Bridge Disaster: The Immediate Aftermath Nov. 1, 1855 - Nov. 5, 1855" by Ray Ham, © Hermann Advertiser Courier, June 16, 2020. (Newspaper Article)

"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]

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2 comments:

  1. "Sources

    Books:

    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"

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  2. "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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