Army Cor. (30th) Cincinnati Commercial.
The work on Green River bridge is progressing slowly. It may be completed this week—but will probably not. It could have been done sooner, but tardiness and inefficiency in other quarters has rendered great haste here unnecessary.
This bridge, as many of our readers are aware, is, or was, one of the finest in the country. It is of iron, supported on four piers and two abutments of solid, massive masonry. It is 1,040 feet in length—some of the spans being 180 feet in length, and others over 200 feet. The longest pier, and the only one that stands in the river, is 137 feet high. The destruction consisted in blowing up and utterly destroying the South pier, and with it the two southern spans of the bridge—about 400 feet in all. An attempt was made to blow up tbc pier next to this one. Two stones were removed from different places in the South side of it, and holes dug in the center, where the blast was placed. Stones on the opposite side were broken, and crevices opened between the stones, leaving vents sufficient to render further attempts at blowing it up unavailing, while the strength of the pier is but slightly impaired.
The pier destroyed was about 100 feet high. It will be replaced, for the present, by some fifteen or twenty trestles of heavy timber, two lengths, and well braced. The work looks light, but good judges say it is sufficient.
Wagon roads are being made, and pontoon bridges prepared to cross the river. We, of course, know nothing as to when we will take the next step towards Bowling Green; but we do know that when Gen. McCook goes he goes “for keeps.”
Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, IL