Garland Globe | 1908-05-16 | Page 2 | Flood Causes Loss of Life

I FLOOD CAU8ES LOSS OF LIFE. Bridge Washed Out, Train Wrecked, and Towns Flooded. St. IouIb. A thunderstorm of un-iiBual un-iiBual sovcrlty, accompanied by a high wind of almost tornado velocity, swept over tills vicinity enrly Tuesday, Tues-day, doing much dnmago to property and Indirectly cnuslng loss of life. A bridge on tho LoiiIbvIIIo & Nashvlllo 1 road, near Dollovlllo, III., wna washed out and wrecked a frolght train. Engineer En-gineer Ward, Conductor Smith nnd n trainman wero caught under tho englno nnd drowned. Tho train was piled up In n mass In Schoonlaub creek, which wns swollen Into a torrent. tor-rent. Tho village of Edgemont, Ill-was Ill-was Hooded nnd many persons wero forced to tako refuge on Improvised rafts. Tho whole -irca of lowlnnds, known as tho American bottoms, east of East St. Iouls, 111., and comprlslnp thlrty-nvo square miles of territory, hi under wntor.