The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-06-14

that the passengers who remained in the
cars through the rssol and until the fire.
we're saved while their companions who
attempted - dee were overwhelmed AMI
drowned. and that through il all one lo-
connective stood. and still stands. COM
paratively uninjured in the center % the
wreckase.
This disaster aud the story % one %
the most marvellous freaks % the Hood
j. barely outlined That locomotive
stands there on its track now with il
fires burning. smoke curiing from the
stack and steam from is sasety-vaive. All
ready 10 90 ahead as soon as track j.
bnilf down 10 il. II j. No. i.4a. a tttv-
four-fon eight-driv@r class ~ Penusyl-
vanin railroad locomotive. George Hub
son was its engineer. and Conductor
Sheehy had charge % the train They.
with all the rest % the crew. escaped By
flight when they saw the Hood coming
The limits p: the playground where
giant force played with masses q iron as
a child might play with pebbles begins
with a bridge or piece o. bridge about
thirty feet high that stands high and dry
upon ordinary abutments af Woviyale-
The part Of the bridge that remains
spannei the Pennsylvania tracks TIE
tracks are gone the bridge j. gone %
either side. the river is gone - new
channel. The very earth for hundred
yards around has been scrapesi off aud
swept away. but this little span remains
perched there twenty feet above every
thing. in the midst o. a desert 81 ruins.
the only piece 81 n bridge that i standing
from the railroad bridge 70 South Fork
II = a light. iron structure. aal thu abnt-
ments are not unusually heavy. That il
should BE- kept there when ever thing
else was twisted aud torn ~ pieces j. one
q the queer freaks ~ this food
Wear b. are the wrecks ~ two freight
trains that are standing side by ~ile
where The Hood caught them. The lover
ends 81 both trains ARE torn q pieces the
ears tossed around ia every direction.
aud many ~ them carried away. The
whole % the train o. the track nearest
the river was demolished. Its locosnotive
Is = me entirely. Perhaps because the
other train acted n escort or buffer for
the second one, the latter has fw-nty- ave
or thirty cars that are unIni1rsss- APP
paren'ly. they could move OF a. s0on a.
that wonderful engine. NJ. i5n. that
stands with steam mp at their head. gets
ready 70 pull nut A second look. how
ever. shows that the track l. in many
places literally washed from beneath the
cars Some ~ the trucks also are turned
half way round. aud are sfsndin, with
wheels across the track. But the force
that did this left the islt wooden blk
cars themselves nniarmesL They were
loaded with dressed beef ami provisions.
They have been empfeL 10 supply ths
hungry ia Johastown.
Ia front % engine No. i.sp tn. water
played some b. IL most fantastic tricks
with the rails. The debris ~ trees. logs.
plhnks and every descrip;io-. - WRECK
are i heep@i M III front n ne engine
y the headlight and j. packed ia 50
lightly that twenty men with ropes and
axe~ worked All day without clearing all
away. The track l. absolutely gone from
the front ~ the engine clear ~ 20 heyond
r"remnrgh. Parts ~ II liz about every
where, twisted. turned upside down.
stacked croSS-wise. nne piece above an
other and In one place section ~ the
lift track has been lifted clear over The
right track. rnns along there snr short
distance. then twists info i'll proper
place again. Even stronger than the
tracks. the water has played With tn
rails. where they have heen torn loose
tr0rn the ties. The rails are IL steel aud
X the heaviest weight Es~d. They were
twisted like willow bvngns ia spring
freShet IN a country brook. One rail- lies
IN the sand Ia the shape Os letter -. Y
More are broken squarely In two. Many
| are broken within few feet & q fsh-