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page 28 was underwater when the crest of the flood passed, two hours before dark, Friday afternoon. It was at this bridge that perhaps the narrowest excape in Logan county waG reported. Vincent Asnicar, 15, Kenneth Kaiser, 20, and Jack Garrison, 21, were marooned on the bridge as they stood watching the incoming tide. Sam Williams and others came to Stelring to obtain a boat with which to attempt the rescue. Ropes eventually were throml to the youths and they we~e taken from the bridge. D8.lnage was threatened to the Beta bridge again Saturday morning when the northwest wing of the south span began to undermine. Mr. Harris rushed men to the bridge and fills were made with sandbags to stop an undercurrent which had taken out earth fifteen feet wide half way under the pavement of the bridge. Light traffic was permitted to go a.cross the bridge Saturday afternoon. In the valley east of the bridge, however, there was still a large volume of water through which only high yehicles could go. Water flowed over the wooden bridge at Atwood and took away some of the bannisters. The middle of the bridge s~gged from the flow of the water but the structure probably can be repaired at small cost. L. E. Smith, who yiewed this bridge from the air feared at first that it had been washed out. Sterling Bridge Damaged Approximately a hundred feet of the earth approach to the east end of the South Platte river bridge at Sterling was washed out Friday night. The bridge, however, was not appreciably damaged, so far as could be seen. It could not be approached Saturday morning from either side, because of high water. . W. E. Harris, highway patrOlman, asked for 150 reli<ef workers today, to assist in restoring the fill at the east side Of the river b~idge at Sterling. He expressed hope of restoring the fill and permitting traffic to pass by tonight. T>renty-two trucks of the county and state highway equipment were being usedtoday, hauling sand taken from the hill at the entrance to Sterling Country club. Rock and concrete obtained at the Henderson place at the west end of Denver street, from an old dairy barn, also were going into the river channel. Trucks operating at the east end of the bridge were hauling sand from a hill a short distance away. County Commissioner D. J. Harman made his way to Sterling today by ferrying the river channel on a.raft used to ca~ry timbers and other repair ~ateri~ls. Restoration of the fill of the bridge should ])ermit repair of the water main on the bridge, from which eight lengths of pipe were carried by the flood waters. A section of the Beetland.wooden bridge between Atwood and Merino was reported by Mr. Harris to be washed out, but most of the bridge was considered saved. Mr. Harris today asked The Advocate to appeal to users of the highways to use utmost caution and consideration. Only parts of roads which are dangerous for travel will be barricaded, he said. There are many miles of road on which the shoulders have been washed and are now narrow or soft. Mr. Harris asked that the public bear this fact in mind and that motorists drive with due caution. It would be wise, he said, to a~oid unnecessary travel until roads have been. repaired.