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evangeline.higgins
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I have a newspaper clipping from the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate dated Tuesday, 6-21-55 that was in my Dad’s personal effects. The article states that the T & P Railroad would soon begin work on a 125 foot lift span at Morley, LA. The lift bridge would be constructed on dry land but situated such that it would span the soon to be dug completion of the Port Allen Indian Village Cutoff Canal. Bids for the canal work were to be opened on July 15th. I was hoping to find a clipping relating to the accident but have not found one.

Bill Herbert