McLEAN COUNTY’S BRIDGE TRAGEDY

By Staff
Published on November 1, 1968

The collapse of the Silver Bridge at Gallapolis, Ohio, with the
loss of many lives, recalled to many McLean countians one bridge
collapse in McLean which resulted in the death of a Beech Grove
resident.

It happened on a hot July day in 1911.

In those days, there was a large acreage of wheat grown along

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