Silver Bridge Disaster - Part 2 (MP3s)

One of my earliest posts here on Beware Of The Blog featured two MP3s about a deadly 1967 bridge collapse.  In case you're fuzzy on the details, I'm referring to the collapse of the Silver Bridge (into the Ohio River) on December 15, 1967 which resulted in 46 deaths.  The bridge, which connected Kanauga, Ohio to Point Pleasant, West Virginia, was built in 1928.  More details can be found in the original post.

Since then, through some magical combination of fate and good fortune, I've somehow rounded up an additional four 45s about the collapse of the great Silver Bridge, so here they are. 

Charles Alexander with The Carolina Five  -  The Great Silver Bridge  (2:50)

Little Hot Rod and The Fire Blazers  -  Grey Silverbridge  (2:48)

Cecil Pigott  -  The Fate Of The Silver Bridge  (2:56)

Ray Anderson  -  The Silver Bridge Disaster  (4:00)

       

And for the sake of convenience, the two MP3s posted earlier are included below.

Jim Stout  -  Silver Bridge History  (3:52)

Three J's  -  Silver Bridge Disaster  (2:13)

Credit:  The Charleston Daily Mail image above was borrowed from 1horsetown's flickr stream.

Comments

[simon b]

The Open University uses the Silver Bridge disaster as part of its engineering courses, and has got a free online video about the investigation into the collapse:

http://www.open2.net/sciencetechnologynature/worldaroundus/silverbridge_partone.html

[Joe]

Good timing! The Mothman Festival is Sept 19-20 in Point Pleasant.

[çiçekçi]

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[Julian]

So what are the B-Sides of these 6?

[Don Goosman]

The Silver Bridge History by Jim Stout is excellent. This was available as a still picture video on YouTube until recently. It is now no longer available.

[Don Goosman]

Our family rode from Jackson OH down to the Carolinas in March 1968, 3 months after the tragedy and took the ferry WVa had set up across the river. The bridge piers from the old Silver Bridge
were still in the water. That inspired me to write a poem, "Ode to the Silver Bridge" as a junior in high school for an English class project. The ferry passed within a short distance of those
concrete piers on the 15-minute ride across from Kanauga to the landing at Point Pleasant.

[Trish Alston]

My dad should have been on that bridge that day. He had to stay home because of a family illness. He was a driver for Roadway Express and some of his buddies and co-workers went into the river. Many lost their lives and I can say they have never been forgotten. God rest their soles and be with their children and families. I will never stop remembering the loss of that day and how grateful that my dad was home.