River traffic to resume today Efforts to move barge lodged on pier fail again

Published 1:12 am Sunday, March 27, 2011

By Staff Reports

A large steel chisel is used by Big River Shipbuilders and Salvage Saturday to try to break apart the barge lodged on a Mississippi River bridge pier since Wednesday.

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