The fallen girders had to be removed and new ones built and the piers to be erected again; and this threatened seriously to interfere with the expectation of having the bridge finished for the passage of a train by September.
The fallen girders had to be removed and new ones built. In fact one of the falled girders was recovered and reused and the piers to be erected again; and this threatened seriously to interfere with the expectation of having the bridge finished for the passage of a train by September.