The Silver Bridge Disaster of 1967 (Images of America)

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Point Pleasants Silver Bridge, the first eyebar suspension bridge in the US, used to be an engineering marvel when it used to be constructed in 1927 and 1928. Situated on US Highway 35, the bridge spanned the Ohio River and linked Point Pleasant, West Virginia, with the towns of Kanauga and Gallipolis, Ohio. For just about 40 years, the structure provided dependable service for travelers in the region. On December 15, 1967, this service came to a dramatic and disastrous end. At 4:58 p.m., throughout the height of rush hour, the bridge abruptly collapsed. Rescue and recovery operations began straight away but were hampered by poor weather conditions and freezing rain. The reason for the collapse used to be linked to the bridges innovative design. Undetected corrosion stress cracks caused an eyebar on the Ohio side to fracture; because the eyebars were linked together in a chain, the failure of one led to the catastrophic collapse of all of the bridge. In total, 46 lives were lost in the disaster.

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