Images shows police cars and an ambulance standing by at the Haussmann Refrigerator Co. Union complaints that police used excessive force in quelling a disturbance at Hussmann Refrigerator Co. were denied by Bridgeton Police Chief George Krelo after about 100 pickets were arrested outside the plant Monday. Krelo said about 500 striking workers gathered outside plant gates at Taussig and St
This narrative was written by Edward Thomas Bruckner, a mate aboard the steamer Republic, on January 15, 1910. In it, he details the breaking of the 1910 ice gorge at St. Louis. The damage caused by this event would forever reshape river commerce on the Mississippi. Entire fleets were destroyed and companies collapsed, paving the way for new names in the river trade.
The full title of this report is IN THE MATTER OF THE Connecticut River Bridge, AT MIDDLETOWN AND PORTLAND, CONNECTICUT, FACTS, Respectfully submitted for the Consideration of the Honorable, the Committee on Roads and Canals, House of Representatives of the United States., Caption title.
Signed: Edward W. Serrell