Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Railway Surgical Journal, Vol. 14: Official Journal of the American Association of Railway Surgeons; September, 1907-August, 1908 The bridge in question is feet long. It gave way as the train ran on it from the south, the piling having been loosened by the extreme and very sudden rise of the river. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.