“He's with us and He strengthens us for whatever comes our way." She said when disasters happen, the town looks to a higher power. She lobbied for funding for a memorial and still organizes annual reunions. Jewell Horne-Hall was Webbers Falls' Mayor in 2002. It was hard because I had a daughter at that time that was about 3 years old and it kind of hit home" "I actually picked her up off the airboat and put her in the body bag and carried her up to where they had a temporary morgue set up," Shackleford said. Someone he could never forget is the youngest victim, 3-year-old Shea Johnson. In his decades of service in the Navy, as the current Verdigris police chief and as a firefighter in Muskogee, Jack Shackelford said he has still never seen anything like the bridge disaster.Ģ0 years later, Shackelford remembers the smallest details from those days he spent on the scene. The NTSB determined 11 vehicles with 19 people inside went off the bridge.
“And I said, 'We’ve got to do something.'” She remembers Max saying, “Goldie, we can pray." "We stood there and watched the traffic go in that water,” Alley recalled. Despite a broken back, broken rib and punctured lung between them, Max survived and preached regularly for another ten years. In an interview just a month before she died, Goldie Alley told Dave Davis she and her husband were on their way to Arkoma when the bridge collapsed in front of them. It is hard to find video from May 26, 2002, without seeing a silver Dodge Dakota that did not go off the edge. When Dedmon woke up, he said he remembered seeing a vehicle plunging off the edge of the broken bridge and sounding an alarm. It is estimated Dedmon was unconscious for several minutes. A National Transportation Safety Board report shows he lost consciousness, possibly because of an abnormal heart rhythm, while he was piloting the ship.
500 feet of the bridge came crashing on to the barges below. Love slammed into Pier 3 of the Interstate 40 bridge, just downstream of Webbers Falls at 7:45 in the morning. The bridge collapse and the nearby town of Webbers Falls were the focus of international news coverage over that Memorial Day weekend. May 26 marks 20 years since a tugboat hauling two barges slammed into the Interstate 40 (I-40) bridge over the Arkansas River. Heartbreak And Hope: 20 Years After The I-40 Bridge Collapse
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