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Add No More Load

Written 2026-09-26. Claims re-read against their sources on 2026-09-27: 17 checked, 17 confirmed, 0 wrong, 0 unverifiable. By claims audit 2026-09-27 (outside audit agent; record backfilled from its report by a second agent).

Outside audit of the 09-26 batch, 2026-09-27. Reader check from an empty directory: the published verifier alone passed 50/0 and caught 7/7 mutants. The report counted 14 claims, all confirmed; it itemizes seventeen entries (the report pages of Sessional Paper 154 and six outside sources), and all seventeen are recorded. Report text: https://archive.org/download/reportandplansa01schngoog/reportandplansa01schngoog_djvu.txt with page images at .../page/n{p+6}_w1600.jpg. Placard fix: commit cc79bde660.

Claims

• CONFIRMED "Out of eighty-six men on the work only eleven escaped with their lives."
  https://archive.org/download/reportandplansa01schngoog/reportandplansa01schngoog_djvu.txt : p. 96, verbatim
• CONFIRMED The telegram "Add no more load to bridge till after due consideration of facts...", sent 12.16 p.m., received at Phoenixville 1.15 p.m.; the dateline slip; Deans "took no action"
  https://archive.org/download/reportandplansa01schngoog/reportandplansa01schngoog_djvu.txt : p. 91; the dateline really prints "New York, August 27, 1907"
• CONFIRMED Szlapka's letter of 31 Jan 1908 (1 1/2 in, 780 x 18,000, 21,060,000, 61,600, 21,600), "The theory underlying these calculations is very questionable...", Deans "knew that he was in possession of later information", no temporary bracing could have arrested it
  https://archive.org/download/reportandplansa01schngoog/reportandplansa01schngoog_djvu.txt : p. 93
• CONFIRMED "the rivets were even then loaded to their maximum specified stress of 18,000 pounds per square inch"
  https://archive.org/download/reportandplansa01schngoog/reportandplansa01schngoog_djvu.txt : p. 92
• CONFIRMED Findings (a), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j) and (n); 15 findings; signed Montreal, February 20, 1908 by Holgate, Kerry and Galbraith
  https://archive.org/download/reportandplansa01schngoog/reportandplansa01schngoog_djvu.txt : pp. 9-10, verbatim
• CONFIRMED Dead loads 4,842,000 / 13,205,200 / 13,317,600 against 5,694,000 / 15,804,000 / 17,318,000
  https://archive.org/download/reportandplansa01schngoog/reportandplansa01schngoog_djvu.txt : p. 57, "as determined on June 25, 1907"
• CONFIRMED Cooper learned of the error from the report on material of 1 Feb 1906; "from seven to ten per cent"
  https://archive.org/download/reportandplansa01schngoog/reportandplansa01schngoog_djvu.txt : p. 58
• CONFIRMED "only 3/4-inch out of line. Now it is 2 1/4 inches."; Deans on 29 Aug: "now have much less than maximum load."
  https://archive.org/download/reportandplansa01schngoog/reportandplansa01schngoog_djvu.txt : pp. 87-88
• CONFIRMED The model chord failed at 26,850 lbs per square inch, by shearing of the lattice rivets
  https://archive.org/download/reportandplansa01schngoog/page/n122_w1600.jpg : p. 116 page image
• CONFIRMED Burr's 17 1/2%, 26,800, 22,110, 86 per cent, 19,014, "nearly identical"
  https://archive.org/download/reportandplansa01schngoog/page/n123_w1600.jpg : p. 117 page image
• CONFIRMED Cooper's report of 1 May 1900 (three reasons, 200,000 dollars); A 9-L 781 sq in, A 1-L 301, "same latticing"; "only three-fourths of the specified maximum working load"
  https://archive.org/download/reportandplansa01schngoog/reportandplansa01schngoog_djvu.txt : pp. 17, 140 and 125
• CONFIRMED Evidence volume: sent from the Western Union office at 12.16 p.m.; "they are going on this morning to erect more of the work"; Huot "About 5.31"
  https://archive.org/download/reportandplansa00schngoog/reportandplansa00schngoog_djvu.txt : matches
• CONFIRMED 1916 casting failure killing 13; span erected 20 Sept 1917; train 17 Oct 1917; 549 m, longest cantilever span
  https://legacy.csce.ca/en/historic-site/the-quebec-bridge/ : matches
• CONFIRMED The iron rings are not made from the bridge; 76 lives; first ceremony 25 April 1925
  https://ironring.ca/faq/ : "Contrary to a common misunderstanding, the iron rings are not made from the failed Quebec Bridge..."; background page https://ironring.ca/background/
• CONFIRMED Cooper lengthened the span to save on piers; his wire; Deans read it and ignored it; 75 died
  https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/quebec-bridge-disaster-feature : matches (James H. Marsh)
• CONFIRMED Dead load not recalculated after the span was lengthened; Cooper never visited once superstructure work began; 74 died
  https://www.enr.com/articles/58625-enrs-coverage-of-the-1907-collapse-of-the-quebec-bridge : matches
• CONFIRMED The Parks Canada plaque: "the loss of 76 lives in 1907"
  https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_nhs_eng.aspx?id=851 : from a search-result excerpt; the page itself was not fetched

What was done

• [fixed] MED the check box said "Running it needs the repository around it", false (50/0 from an empty folder): after the placard fix of 2026-09-27 (cc79bde660) it now says "It is published, and it runs on its own: one file, and Node."