Ebenezer Buckingham died while overseeing the building of the third Y-Bridge, which he owned and helped design. As a flood in 1832 threatened to destroy all the progress on the bridge, Buckingham told his workers to remove the wedges that held the support beams in place. This should have weakened the bridge, but prevent it from being washed away with the flood. When they did this the bridge collapsed and Buckingham and James Boyd were killed.
Ebenezer Buckingham died while overseeing the building of the third Y-Bridge, which he owned and helped design. As a flood in 1832 threatened to destroy all the progress on the bridge, Buckingham told his workers to remove the wedges that held the support beams in place. This should have weakened the bridge, but prevent it from being washed away with the flood. When they did this the bridge collapsed and Buckingham and James Boyd were killed.
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Killed at the building of the old Y-bridge.
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