Davis County Clipper | 1909-07-30 | Page 6 | Train Plunged into River

TRAIN PLUNGED INTO RIVER six lives lost and nd thirty chiky six persons periods injured in 16 wreck kansas city six lives lost and thirty six alx persons In injured jurea three perhaps fatally 4 la Is the result of 0 the wreck of wabash passenger train no 4 when it plunged I 1 into to the mis missouri sour I 1 river thirty miles least east of here saturday night at the scene of the wreck the river makes a bend and the railroad follows jt it for days the flood waters have bave been undermining tha roadbed making it too weak to hold up the iho heavy trains three hours before the wreck a freight train of forty five loaded cars passed the point safely three hours houra later no 4 started across the same bit of track fifty feet of the roadbed suddenly collapses coll apsel and the engine and cars piled one upon the other in the water