| Show WHAT A CLOUD tid A cloudburst cloud burst at victoria pw pear de soto missouri on the texas cacide shortly after 10 on oa a 4 i startling A accident on the Momas pacific railways A trestle which cros crosses seii joachim creed creba at that point gave way u under n der a m a strain the train was as the tha texas express consisting of baggage express and mail cars a smoker two passenger coaches and four sleepers carrying about passengers A heavy rain had fallen all day mad and the creek was waa much swollen when the engine reached about the iii middle iddle of the trestle engineer kel kelly felt the whole structure sin sl ing beneath him in an instant he opened the valve operating the air brakes f full all and brought the train to so quick a stop that th end of oyle of the cars w was s crushed in by the sudden shock this saved the coaches but the baggage mail mad express and smoking cars went into the raging torrent below carrying with them all aboard engineer kelly and fireman hutch hatch went down with the engine and were ere in the flood kelly in his struggle to free himself found that one of his feet was held fast but at t the same instant and just acho as he realized that lie must drown hiie the engine turne turned dover over his foot was released and he came to the surface seizing a passing log ile hs clung to it if despe desperately atu was swept down the torrent mud and lodged against a tree yards below with scarcely strength enough to move he clasped his legs and arms around a limb of the tree became ancon unconscious 1 andaas and was not restored resided until two two 0 or r three hours after be had been tg tadeu ken from the tree when he found himself kindly cared for in a house in victoria his face and head were cut severely two of his bis toen were amputated and he was aured in various parts of the body fireman hutch hatch was carried about live five thousand yaida tards down stream lod lodged led in a mass of brush or adrift drift and was wa rescued soon after the flood d ab side d he is a good deal D aed ed but not seriously hurt the postal I 1 car was swept away some distarce dis taace and as the water rushed through it me mail was literally washed out an and r la s now scattered over miles of territory terri tor or orien bedded in the mud of the cree creek it is reg regarded added as an almost total loss the cholef wh olef of it being completely soaked and the addresses of the letters obliterated li lite rated orated the he postal clerks macoul louge shatter and leyan were badly bruised mud audi almost drowned and being stripped tr dipped for work they lost loat all ail their clott clothes les their gold watches and about in money abich were carried away by the flood tho tha smoker kir which ip said to have contained some twenty persons was swept down doa abo about three hundred feet below the ireae and wt all of its mccu pants are believed tobaie to have heen been saved 1 ahey hey succeeded in ill getting over on OB one side of bf the bar car and aad clung to its top until they were rescued there Is some doubt about the and express messenger meb being saved but a late dispatch from the wreck said that none of the trainmen were lost the cause of the unprecedented flood is believed to hay been a cloudburst cloud burst www took place late io in i o the evening aled the creek which runs be rugged hills bills for miles so dudl that it became a radius torrent with a current of over twenty mites miles per hour anch unwept swept everything before it |
