NEW YORK TIMES
A series of explosions were reported near the finish line at the Boston Marathon on Monday, according to several media outlets. One report quoted "some sort of incident" on Boylston Street, near the finish line.
Competitors and race organizers were crying as they fled the chaos, The Associated Press reported. Bloody spectators were being carried to the medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued runners.
"There are a lot of people down," said one man, according to The A.P., whose bib No. 17528 identified him as Frank Deruyter of North Carolina. He was not injured, but marathon workers were carrying one woman, who did not appear to be a runner, to the medical area as blood gushed from her leg. A Boston police officer was wheeled from the course with a leg injury that was bleeding, The A.P. said.
The Boston Police Department confirmed that they were looking into an explosion, but had no further comment.
Local television also showed ambulances at the scene.
The headquarters for the organizers of the marathon, one of the world's oldest, was reportedly locked down while authorities investigate.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/us/explosions-reported-at-site-of-boston-marathon.xml
Monday, April 15, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Wright's Ferry Bridge lane to be closed Monday morning
LANCASTERONLINE
Motorists headed to York County on U.S. 30 will encounter single-lane restrictions on the Wright's Ferry Bridge Monday morning.
The lane closure, between 9 a.m. and noon, will allow state Transportation Department inspectors to examine expansion joints on the bridge which spans the Susquehanna River between Lancaster and York counties.
Crew Prepares for Bridge Burning Celebration
On Sunday morning, a work crew loaded several stacks of cut wood at Columbia River Park and placed them in metal braziers atop piers from a Civil War era bridge that once spanned the Susquehanna between Columbia and Wrightsville. The work is being done in preparation for the 150th anniversary of the burning of the bridge on June 28. The original event precipitated the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
More on the upcoming celebration HERE.
Unknown soldier from Columbia militia
Gordon's Confederate troops advanced slowly on Wrightsville at about 6 p.m., June 28, 1863.
Their point men rose from fields of grain to pepper with gunshot Union regulars and militiamen defending the town from recently dug trenches.
A fighting man with a black militia unit from Columbia was one of those in the Union trenches.
MORE HERE:
http://www.ydr.com/history/ci_23012583/jim-mcclure-another-unknown-soldier
Saturday, April 13, 2013
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