He Had No Family on That Beam. He Made Them His.

November 1, 1915. Quebec Bridge. 80 mph wind. 200 feet up.

The evacuation whistle blew. One woman couldn't move.

Thomas O'Rourke was 39. No wife. No children. Nothing waiting.

He crawled out on a twelve-inch beam, tied her to the steel, tied himself to her, and said:

"You don't go if I don't go."

They held for twenty minutes.