Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1889-06-13

pinte coapun< them 20 the next rail and
the frsgusnts are still united By the
plates. Natural Las would seem To show
that the nrst place where they should
have broken was At the joints.
There Is little to Indicate the lat. pres
euee os railroad from here 60 the upper
part os the Conemaagh. The little plain
into which the gap widened here. and Ia
which stood the bulk of the town. 10
wiped oat. There Is not the slightest in
dieasion that the center OF the plain vas
any thing but q sood-wAsnei guich In
some mountain region
At the upper end stazds q fantastic coll
lection of ruined railroad equipments
Three trains stood there when the food
swept down the valley. The outside one
was local passenger. with thr-. car,
aud locomotive. II stands thee ret
the cars tilted By the Washing % the
track, but cogA 3aratively uuiuiur-d
Somehow a couple more locomotives hAv.
been run into the sand bank in front
A freight train stood upon th. track
whereon a large collection oc smashed
cars has its place nor. IL was broken al
to ptsces. Inside of all was the day ex-
press, with its baggage aai express ar.
and at the eud three vestibule cars. II
was from this train that n number % pas-
s-ng~r>-nfteen certainly, and no one
knows how many mor--wers lost
when the alarm came. most Os the pas
sengrrs fed for the high ground May
reached il. Others hesitatsd on the vay:
tried TO run back. and we're lost Others
stayed on the ears. aud after the nrss
rush % the hoOd were rescued alive
some ot the freight ears we're loaded
uxfN a 81.
Thule cars And set them on IRE. and
quickly had the cars blazing. Three os the
vestibule cars were burned dowu to th-
trucks These AMI the peculiar shaped
iron frames OF the vestibnles are all that
show where the ears stood The reason
the food did not zip. out these three
trains entirely Is supposed to be that Just
in front OF them aud between them and
the tood, was the round-house aIled With
engines II was large building. snd
probably forty feet high to the tops os
the ventilat0rs in the root. The wave %
wrath. eye-vitnesses say. was 50 high
that these ventilators were beneath it.
The round-house was swept away To is.
very foundation. ani the Hpod played
tack-straws with the locomotives- But IL
split the torrent. aud part OF IL vent
NF"- $3.50 sAAN " tAAT mus @aNAuA EurtD
from the worst of its force. Thirty three
locomotives were In and around tn.
round house and repair shops near. OF
these twenty six have been found. or at
least traced. part OF them being found
scattered down into Johnstowu. and one
tender was found In Stony Creek
The other seven locomotives are gone
not a trace OF them has been found up to
this time IL IL supposed that some Of
them are in the sixty acres Of debris at
Johnstown abov. the bridge. All the To-
com0tives that remain anywhere within
sight OF the round-hOuse. all except those
attached TO the trains. are thrown about
IN every direction, smashed, broken aud
useless except for old iron The tenders
are all gone Being lighter than the To-
comotives, they fosted more easily. and
were more quickly carried away. The en-
gines were apparently rolled over and
over, in whichever direction ran the cur
rent which had hold % them, AMI occa-
siOnally were picked up bodily and
slammed down again wheels upor which
ever way ehaneed tn be most convenient c
to the food Most Of them lie in Ave feet
Of mud and gravel with only part show
ing above the surface. Some are out in
the bed OF the river.
In shs town OF C0nemsu,h there are
only thirty-eiyhs persons positively
known to have p.rished-