Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1890 — SEVEN LIVES ARE LOST. [ARTICLE]

SEVEN LIVES ARE LOST.

A Cloud-Burst Causes an Awful Deluca, CaiTjing Away Buildings and Destroying Property—Seven Lives Lost In a Resulting Wreck. Mayville (Ky.) dispatch: At Bnl| creek, six miles, above here, twa |lack ' liftJk a.i l AAM ifti)4iAir\d seek ioninXlrJ I II f | L 1 ~ariftwood A 1,-44 f tl/ULtilttfij Weir friglitlM««J^fSifi|in^ll culvert on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad over Bull creek was washed out Intq tlje river and about 12 o’clock last While the storm was at its heights tho west bound freight-train ran into the washout, causing a fearful wreck. ifine cqps to ejPeATled on® on top of another almost Th tne creek bottom. The following were burled in the wreck: I ENGLaiJEJSJt C., (X : A^ER cquAiy. fr k f , (jf) * if tl BIiAKEMAN CIIARLES EATON. The train was the first section of freight No. 33, by engine No. ’154, which fs Qnej)l‘the largest as well as finest engines on the road. The engine is now out of sight in quicksand. Tho train was running over thirty miles fiftrlhourl -A'fltUSa lattat an tlast-boUnd* |tr{kjrx,-}iyyopkl'., I )4av« It seems incredible that so many cars I could be jammed into'sQ|piaU a hole-aa t tlcne is at this cftfift. 111 fI | I -Jfcmes Irwin hy a/pojg;abfe savirpll lvmed several hunjirid ya|dt |ub leKv kwojm, above the mffidadfe * suddenly bursting caused a rapid rise in the creek, already badly swollen by th® hi rmrap Ukei .aJ'hvaHA'riiveWty-fiviß fi’.if^et'^lfirfll 1 ; tfheq gqlj t tpj tdiei T«ilfosad.-j 'B?W,' HhMbd ‘vidliinWy railroad sto nor > culvert, i rimwbatltitbbabfyA caused it to give weighing several tons were carried by tlio creek long distances. The creek rose two feet higher than It had been in forty years. The fury of the storm caused many persons on Bull creek to keen ,gyaMfer-» »f . t \