Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1890 — DEATH IN THE STORM. [ARTICLE]

DEATH IN THE STORM.

Two clouds met and burst at Bull Run Creek, near Maysville, Ky., the night of the 12th. The creek overflowed and carried away several dwellings and their occupants. It washed away a stone culvert on the C. & O. railroad and a freight train; ran into the washout, causing a fearful wreck. The engine and nineteen cars arepiled upon the top of one another, nine; oarloads of boots and shoes being in the) wreck. The bodies of engineer Roadcap,.' fireman Honalrer, and brakeman Eatoni have not been recovered, and about a! dozen persons living on the bank of thei creek are reported drowned. James Irwin' had a portable saw-mill located several] hundred yards up Bull creek abovo the, railroad. The clouds suddenly bursting] caused a rapid rise in the creek already] badly swollen by the storm. Farmers say! the creek rose two feet per minute, and 1 the water looked like a wall twenty-five feet high when it got to the railroad fill.; The' saw-mill was lifted from its fasten-] ings and, with over a hundred big logs,! hurled violently against the railroad stone] culvert. This is probably what caused it: to give way. Huge stones weighing several tons were carried by the creek long distances. The creek rose two feet higher; than it has been in forty years. The fury of the storm caused many people on Bull' creek to abandon their homes and take to! the hills, else the loss of life would have, been greater. The storm did much damage] to buildings, fences and crops in that portion of the county.