Litchfield enquirer., 1881-05-05
MYSTERY coRREsPoNDEEsE.
LYONS. April ast!n, 1881

LYONS, Apri26th, 1881. Ed Enq -"Whn was q telling yep I
 wrote we're all in a hnugh. OCT his pranks s' rough. But Esoug1 When yon changed that last word into But to drop back into prose you not only gave me away" but made more prose of i; than barLantd for. Bat let that pass'' We are in the midst of an- other 'snow blockade" but this time it. is mettiag snow, causing the rivers between here and Chicago to overflow not only their banks but the railroads to such an extent that DO trains have come through direct for week But we get one mail day from the East by circuitunus route, and by running over other lines of road. About five miles of track have been under water with bad wash outs for SIX teen miles or more and repairs cannot be made till the waters subside., But the worst feature of it all was the giving away in the night of a treslle ever one of the swollen streams about eight miles from here. preeipisating a whole passenger train except a portion of the sleeper into the raging flood. The engine, engineer and fireman went out of sight almost instan- taneOusly. and fof some time could not he found. A liver found the engine six feet under water on is side. bu, mp to last accounts the saen had not been found. It was Mil
 saukee train male up at Freeprrt Con ac. count of d break Ih.rc) for R ,ck Island, and only had about twenty persons on board. seven of whom were killed or drowned while the others had almost miraculous escapes climbing out of windows. etc, upon the tops of the cars which il ated into shalower water. AS one of the Cars passed the abutlnent of wagon bri idge, three of the men attempted to reach it, two succeeded and the other got, drowned. All would have bren save.l if they the sleeper remained out of water, and it's three or four occupants hastily escaped out of the rear end in their night clothes. Suppos ing nearly all the others were drowned, one of them in his plight ran back about a, mile to the station to give the aarm and get hep. It was nearly opposite Ga nauche. on this side of the river, and two men who heard the crash
 If tint,els, hastily dressed and r"wcd across the river and were inslru unental in saving s,ne of the unfortunates. Passengers in the sleeper were able to return and secure their cl thing, The nucor and brakeman and messenger got out some of those badly injured A prominent physician had just boarded the train to gu to the next town to sec d patient and was killed his botly, considerably man gIed, was recoveren by dragging the stream Four of the seven bodies have been recovered 1uud+rstand sketches have been sent on to H irper Bros, and doubtless W ill appear in their Illustrated Weekly.
 Lyons is having big O Id Fellows ccebra tion to-day. it being some anniversary with them There has been d long procession with three bands and lodges from other towns par ticipating. The day is delightful and crowd prodigious A.B.
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