St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-14
RAN into A WASHOUT
A ClOudburSt Causes a Ter
ribly Fatal Railway Wreck
in Kentucky.
More Than a Dozen Persons
Crushed to Death or
Drowned.
Many Of the Victims Bodies
Still Entombed in the
Wreck.
Heavy Rains Submerge Cities
and Villages in Central
New York.

LOUISVILLE, KY. June 12.-At Bull
Creek, six miles above Maysville, last
night, two dark clouds met and burst.
The creek jumped over its banks and
swept like drift several dwelling houses
and their frightened occupants. The
stone culvert on the Chesapeake & Ohio
railroad over Bull creek was washed
out into the river, and about midnight,
while the storm was at it's height, the
West-bound freight train ran into a
washOut, causing fearful wreck. The
engine and nine cars were piled one
upon top of another. almost out OF
sight in the creek bottom. Engineer &C.
ROadclip, of Greenup county; Fireman
Morris Honaker, of Lewis county. aud
Brakeman Charles Eaton are buried
beneath the wreck and their bodies
have not yet been recovered. Conductor
w. R. Watts and Brakeman W. A. Love
jumped from the cars and escaped un-
hurt. The train was made up OF thirty
two cars. Nine carloads of shoes and
boots for Louisville went down in the
wreck. A fast wrecking train on the
way to the scene, this morning, ran
over Frank Scott, cOlOred empl0ye.
and killed HIM. The following bodies
have been found: John Ruggles,
well-known fisherman; Lucy p. Estler.
a widow. and her two daughters, Bette
and Julia, and two sons. She Is
sister of Robert Colburn, of Chester.
The freight cars down IN the wash
out are mashed into kindllng wood:
The train was the first section OF
freight No. SO, drawn by engine No.
154. which is one of the largest as we'll
as finest engines Oh the road. The en-
gine is now out of sight in the quick
sand. The train was running over
thirty miles per hour. A little later an
eaSt-bOund mixed passenger train
would have passed over the fatal cul-
vert, when the loss of life would have
been appalling. 1t seems incredible
that so many cars could be jammed into
so small hole as those at the culvert.
Two wrecking trains haye been busy
all day removing the debris. The work
men have just found two mangled
bodies. James Irwin had a portable
saw mill located several hundred yards
up Bull creek, above the railroad. The
clouds suddenly bursting caused a
Iapid rise in the creek, already badly
swollen by the storm. Farmers say
the creek rose two feet per minute and
the water looked like wall twenty-five
feet high when it got to the railroad.
The sawmill was lifted from it's fOunda-
ton, and with over 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 persons 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 coops
in that portion of the country. A barn
on the farm of Dick RawsOn was struck
by lightning and burned. Tom Williams
dwelling was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground. his family barely
escaping. Some half-dozen persons on
Bull creek are yet missing, but it is be-
lieved they will turn up all right.