August 11, 1906 – “At 1 o'clock this morning [in Duluth] the steamer Troy, a five thousand ton steel packing freighter owned by the Western Transit company, collided with the span of the interstate bridge and precipitated it into the channels on either side of the center pier on which the span revolved. Navigation to and from the upper harbor the most active portion of the head of the lakes is blocked.
The span was about one-third open at the time of the crash. The accident is the worst that has ever happened in the Duluth-Superior harbor.”
http://www3.gendisasters.com/minnesota/9180/duluth-mn-steamer-hits-bridge-aug-1906
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