1910 Postcard The Point and Second Street Bridge Defiance Ohio

                                                          A Narrow Escape

    When the Second Street Bridge was taken away, Andrew Sauer was crossing from East Defiance and E. Hoover was going home to East Defiance. Both heard the premonitory signs of a crash and both ran for dear life. Each reached shore, one going east, the other going west,just as the bridge fell. A minute later would have hurled them both into the grinding mass of ice below.


                              Defiance Democrat     2-17-1881