He wired to Washington that "armed citizens fire into the trains, cut the telegraph wires, attack the guards of bridges, cut off and destroy my couriers, while guerrilla bands of cavalry attack whenever there is the slightest chance of success".
"These are subsistence farmers, simple people who have got simple water systems which will potentially be threatened," she said, adding that the damaged bridge had cut off an area near the epicenter.
One squad stayed at the plank bridge to cut off any Chinese escape.
During this time, Chaytor's Force commanded by Major General Edward Chaytor captured part of the retreating Ottoman and German column at the Jisr ed Damieh bridge to cut off this line of retreat across the Jordan River.
Helicopters and planes were deployed to air lift residents out of areas where the force of flood waters knocked down buildings, bridges and cut off communication links, media reports say.
For Saakashvili one factor is that Batumi, Georgia's largest oil terminal, is situated in a formerly secessionist territory where rebels blew up bridges and cut off oil exports for a week earlier in 2004.
Truck traffic vastly increased after 1974, when the Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge burned and cut off a railroad line that was used to bring freight into Connecticut and New England.
Because of construction work on the Manhattan Bridge that will cut off train routes between Brooklyn and the Grand Street station and is expected to last until late 2003, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority instituted the most extensive service changes in recent memory.
One major landslide tore open a mountainside in Minamiaso village in Kumamoto prefecture, destroying a key bridge that could cut off food and other relief transport to the worst-hit area.
He led a contingent in the Scythian expedition of Darius (c. 513), and, according to Herodotus, he advised the destruction of the Danube bridge, which would have cut off Darius' retreat.
