“The old arch pier on Scioto street is no more and the stone has been removed and used in the rip rap wall at the West Side abutment.”1
Only months before its removal the stone archworks had anchored the eastern terminus of the Second Street bridge. In May 1884, the bridge collapsed killing Zelda Fulwiler and Earl Fulwiler, the young children of Charles Fulwiler and Janett Beatty Fulwiler. The bridges collapse was attributed to a lack of maintenance and occurred when a heavy wagon of stone from the Reitz Stone Company entered onto the bridge at the same time of the Fulwiler wagon. The combined weight was too much for the long-corroded suspension wire resulting in one side of the bridge failing, spilling its occupants into the Scioto River.
