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Show TRAIN PLUNGES INTO fi CREEK Three Drown and a Bridge Is Washed Away as Result Re-sult of Rise of CreeK in Pennsylvania. PITTSBURG. March IS. Three men drowned, a railroad bridge washed away, and an engine and five freight cars in the water, are the results of the , rapid rise- last night of Deer creek, near Har-marsvllle, Har-marsvllle, Pa on the West Pennsylvania Pennsylva-nia railroad. The dead: " J. B. MlkeselL an engineer. W. J. CantweU, fireman. I J. It. Johnson, brakeman. I A freight train which entered upon the 1 bridge got no further than the second span when the span gave way. Before the engineer, fireman or brakeman up-on up-on the forward part of the train could realise re-alise what happened, the bridge went down, carrying the engine, trainmen and five freight cars with It. One of the loaded freight car was carried car-ried down the creek a quarter of a mile. Rain has fallen for the last twenty-four hours. r ' |