Contributing Factors

ID: 5282 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Spokesman-Review.
This file appears in: The Collapse of the Division Street Bridge

Reporters hint at the bridge deficiencies, further examination of the bridge remains would support these claims.

This file appears in: The Collapse of the Division Street Bridge

By Steven Fry
It was a typical winter morning on December 18, 1915, as two streetcars began to cross the Spokane river via the Division Street bridge. When the cars met on the middle of the bridge, steel girders ripped from the bank. One streetcar hung up on the…