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

Published 1:12 am Sunday, March 27, 2011

The towboat Bruce L. Hahn, owned by Marquette Transportation of Paducah, Ky., pushes on the barge Saturday afternoon in an attempt to dislodge it from a pier of the Interstate 20 bridge over the Mississippi River where it has been since Wednesday when it and 29 other barges got away from a southbound tow and scattered in the swollen river.

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