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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. | ||
Was this the reason that William Branham did not tell the story in his home town, Jeffersonville, until 1960? Did he simply make up the story knowing that no one would be able to check the facts? People would have remembered a lot of people being killed in the construction of a bridge many years in the past but would have been unable to differentiate between the Big Four bridge and the Municipal Bridge. | |||
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::::'''''Workmen Meet Their Death by a Falling Bridge Caisson.''' | ::::'''''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 | :''Sixteen lives have been lost by the giving way of a caisson at the new bridge now building across the Ohio River at 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 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. | ||