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Description
The occupants escaped serious injury when this cargo truck from F. E. Merrill Lumber of Turner, enroute to Forster's toothpick mill with wooden shipping boxes, crashed through the deck of the wire suspension bridge over the Sandy River. The truck, owned by Frank E. Merrill and occupied by Leroy J. Merrill and Harold Andrews, all of Turner, luckily came to rest upright on the riverbank.
About This Item
- Title: Cargo truck accident, Strong, October 2, 1915
- Creator: Lester Royal Lewis
- Creation Date: 1915-10-02
- Subject Date: 1915-10-02
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Locations:
- Strong, Franklin County, ME
- Turner, Androscoggin County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Local Code: ED.01.103.610
- Collection: L. R. Lewis Collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Suspension bridges--Maine--Strong
- Traffic accidents--Maine--Strong
- Truck accidents--Maine--Strong
- Run-off-the-road accidents--Maine--Strong
- Bridge failures--Maine--Strong
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