According to state park officials and crews at the site, storms packing winds up to 80 mph caused part of the 121-year-old Kinzua Viaduct near Mount Jewett, PA to collapse, sending most of it crashing into the gorge below.
``Essentially the middle part of the bridge is gone,’’ said Gretchen Leslie, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Conservation and National Resources, which owns the bridge.
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