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===Problem 1: No evidence of 16 fatalities=== | ===Problem 1: No evidence of 16 fatalities=== | ||
We have not been able to find any historic documents or evidence supporting the statement that 16 men died during the construction of the Louisville Municipal Bridge. | We have not been able to find any historic documents or evidence supporting the statement that 16 men died during the construction of the Louisville Municipal Bridge. | ||
Additionally, it is clear that William Branham stated that the 16 men died by drowning: | |||
:Here at the municipal bridge. Sister, no doubt you know where the municipal bridge is, don't you, cross from Jeffersonville to Louisville? | |||
:Twenty-two years, when I was a little boy, just a little bitty lad about five years old, or six years old, when the Angel of the Lord appeared in the bush... You've heard me tell that haven't you, when I was packing water? | |||
:Well, about two weeks after that, I was playing marbles with my little brother. And I thought I'd got sick, some real funny feeling came on me. And I went and set down by the side of a tree. And I looked down at the river, and there went a bridge, a big, great big bridge going across the river. '''And I counted sixteen men that fell off of that bridge and drowned.''' And I went and told mother. And I told her I seen it. And they thought I was crazy or something. They thought I was just at a little nervous hysterical child. | |||
:And twenty-two years from that time, on the same ground went the municipal bridge across, and sixteen men lost their lives on it. See? Wasn't nothing that... It's--it's God sent it. Your prayers brought it. See? | |||
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Based on research done by [[Searching for Vindication]], it appears that there were 2 fatalities in the construction of the bridge: | Based on research done by [[Searching for Vindication]], it appears that there were 2 fatalities in the construction of the bridge: | ||