Drake Suspension Bridge

This is an image set within the Bridgemeister collection.

Bridge:Drake Suspension Bridge
Location:Warsaw, Missouri, USA - Osage River
Image Set Contributor:David Denenberg
Related Suspension Bridge Inventory:1895 Drake - Warsaw, Missouri, USA
Related Image Lists:All from David Denenberg
All in Missouri
All in USA
All Vehicular Suspension Bridges
Credit:Postcards, collection of David Denenberg.

The bridge failed in 1913 under the weight of cattle. I acquired the first postcard a long time ago (early 2000s), but it was only upon carefully examining the second postcard (acquired in 2020) that I noticed a grisly detail in both images. The large black objects along the wires are cattle still hung up in the wreckage. One is visible in the first image, bottom-center. At least three are visible in the second image, bottom, right-center. There are five people also visible there below the cattle. It is unclear what the people are doing.

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