Show TRAIN WENT THROUGH BRIDGE terrible accident on the rock island in oklahoma guthorle okia eight people are dead twenty more or less injured and as many more are missing in the most disastrous wreck in the recent history of the rock island which occurred three miles from dover okia the engine tender baggage and mall cars smoker and day coach of passenger train no 12 northbound left the high bridge that spans the cimarron river and plunged into the current flanked by treacherous quick sands the locomotive disappeared from sight almost immediately the mail and baggage clerks escaped from their coaches and swam to the shore the accident was due to the defea alve condition of the bridge which was swerved out of line by the press ure of driftwood carried down by the swollen stream |