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In William Branham's vision, 16 people died when they fell off the bridge. With the Big Four Bridge, 37 people died in the construction of the bridge. All of these fatalities occurred before William Branham was born. | In William Branham's vision, 16 people died when they fell off the bridge. With the Big Four Bridge, 37 people died in the construction of the bridge. All of these fatalities occurred before William Branham was born. | ||
===Deception by message followers=== | |||
An article from page 4 of the North Carolinian newspaper on January 22, 1890 is contained on the right hand side of this page. The article is entitled "Sixteen Men Killed" and tells the story of 16 men who fell to their death in the construction of the Big Four bridge in Louisville, Kentucky in 1890. | |||
This article has been the basis of the subject of deceptive social media posts which state falsely that the article is from the late 1920's and relates to the construction of the Municipal Bridge. They state that it proves that the municipal bridge vision was fulfilled. This is a false statement. | |||
The contents of the article are as follows: | |||
::::'''''Sixteen Men Killed''''' | |||
::::'''''A Most Appalling Accident in Louisville, Ky.''' | |||
::::'''''Workmen Meet Their Death by a Falling Bridge Caisson.''' | |||
:''Sixteen lives have been lost by the giving way of a caisson at the new bridge now building across the Ohio Rivera t Louisville, Ky. Most of the victims were colored. | |||
:''The caisson, known as No. 1, was about one hundred yards from the Kentucky shore. As the workmen of the pumping station were looking for the men in the caisson to put off in their boards, leaving work for the night, they suddenly saw the low, dark structure disappear in the dashing white waves, and heard, before they could realize what had happened, the roar of the furious maelstrom. A runner was despatched to the life-saving station and three skiffs were manned and pulled to the scene of the wreck. | |||
:'''''The site of the bridge is at the upper end of the city, just below Towhead Island.''' Within an hour from the disappearance of the caisson 3000 people were on the shore straining themselves trying to see something of the wreckage. Dozens of boats were plying about over the spot where the caisson had stood and lights danced to and fro with them, but there was no trace of the massive structure of stone and timber which had kept off the hungry river, to give hope to the anguish-stricken mothers and wives who stood in the throng on the shore.'' | |||
:''The men saved are Abe Taylor, Lewis Couch, James Murray and Frank Haddox, all colored. The last man out of the caisson was Frank Haddox. He was barely saved by Murray, who dragged him from where he was caught waist deep in the quicksand. Taylor says he stood nearest the iron ladders, by which they got in and out of the caisson. He heard a rumbling and there was a rush of air almost at the same instant. He jumped up the rungs of the ladder, followed by the other men. They had hardly got clear of the caisson when the water burst through the manhole in a surge knocking them all into the river, where they were picked up. Haddox says he saw Ham Morris, who was climbing next below himself, swiftly drawn under the sand and heard his cries for help, but could do nothing. | |||
:''John Knox, the gang boss, took charge of the work three days before. The colored men who escaped say he had them dig too deep before letting the caisson settle, and the digging was too close to the shoe of the caisson. Just before the accident Knox gave some order to Rober Baldwin, the keeper in charge of the upper door to the exit. Baldwin then opened the door, and the compressed air which kept out the river rushed out, letting in the stream. The men say they were working in an ugly quicksand at the time. The caisson was about forty feet by twenty, and built of timbers twelve inches square. It was protected by a coffer-dam, but the river is very high and the pressure of the water very great. | |||
:''The most plausible theory as to the cause of the accident is thus given by one of the survivors, Louis Crouch, and his story receives not a little credence from the Superintendent of the work. Knox, the foreman, had been seen near the key which controls the air supply, and it is believed that he cut off the air more than he really intended to, causing the caisson to sink into the sand.'' | |||
==Problem 3: The timing of the vision== | ==Problem 3: The timing of the vision== | ||