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150 years later, Dixon bridge tragedy among nation's worst | News, Sports, Jobs

DIXON, Ill. Gertie Wadsworth was in the arms of her grandmother that bright day when sunshine dissolved distasteful memories of a long, brutal winter. Chris ....

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Coronation Day babies at York Hospital wear knitted crowns

York Hospital: Babies born on the day of the Coronation of King Charles III wear knitted crowns. ....

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150 years later, Dixon bridge tragedy among nation's worst

Gertie Wadsworth was in the arms of her grandmother that bright day when sunshine dissolved distasteful memories of a long, brutal winter. Christan Goble held the 3 1/2-year-old girl in a crowd of more than 200 on the bridge over the Rock River. After a procession down Galena Avenue from the Baptist Church on May […] ....

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150 years since Dixon bridge collapsed. Remains the worst vehicular-bridge disaster in American history.

DIXON, Ill. (AP) Gertie Wadsworth was in the arms of her grandmother that bright day when sunshine dissolved distasteful memories of a long, brutal winter. Christan Goble held the 3 1/2-year-old girl in a crowd of more than 200 on the bridge over the Rock River. After a procession down Galena Avenue from the Baptist Church on May 4, 1873, the Rev. J.H. Pratt began baptizing parishioners in the brisk, rapid current. Then, with a sharp crack and a crescendo of shrieking spectators loaded on the pedestrian walkway in front of towering trusses, the 4-year-old bridge twisted, splintered and rolled over. Forty-six people perished, many immured by the unrelenting gridiron just below the water's surface. Along with 56 injuries, the Truesdell bridge tragedy, 150 years ago Thursday, remains the worst vehicular-bridge disaster in American history. "It's not as though the bridge just collapsed and went straight down," says Tom Wadsworth, 70, a retired magazine editor and expe ....

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Dixon bridge tragedy still marked as one of nation's worst

On May 4, 1873, a crowd of more than 200 gathered on the bridge to watch a baptism when it toppled over. ....

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