Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1906-09-28 | Page 6 | Train Went through Bridge

TRAIN WENT THROUGH BRIDGE terrible accident on the rock island in oklahoma guthrie Gu thrle okla right eight people nr fire dead twenty more oi 01 less injured and as ag many more are nils missing sing in the most disastrous wreck in the tha recent history ot of the tha rock island which occurred three miles from dover okla the engine tender baggage and mall mail cais smoker an anti day boac coach h 0 of passenger train no 12 northbound left the high bridge that spans the cimarron Cl marron river end and plunged into the current flanked by treacherous quick sands sanda the locomotive disappeared from sight almost immediately the mall mail and baggage clerks escaped from their coaches and swam to the shore the accident was waa due to the detec tive condition of the bridge which was swerved out of line hue by the press ure ot of driftwood carried down by the swollen stream