Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 5, 1907

ONE of the worst calamities of the year occurred at Quebec on August 29, when the southern section of the great ten-million-dollar Quebec bridge in process of construction collapsed and fell into the St. Lawrence River. Eighty-four workmen, including the chief engineer and three foremen, went down in the wreckage, and were either killed outright or drowned. This bridge had been seven years in process of construction, and was to have been completed in 1909. When completed, it would have been one of the most wonderful bridges in the world, containing the longest span of any cantilever bridge in existence.