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Show BAD WRECK IS RECALLED By the Reports From Eastern Floods. Entire Train Disap- J pears in Quicksand. C, Hoods In tin east aie tloing tenlllc (Clamage I'l.ictlcalh all tlie riveisor tlie Ohio and Mississippi alles anon an-on the i.unpage and hiiiidieds or towns in tlie lovvlaiidsaie waist deep In watei It seems that the Wabash river which ronns a poitloii of the bouiiilai between Indiana and Illinois Js paitlcul.nh active The following tUHpatch holds paiticiilar Inteiest loi ivle wiltei luasmiiehas he isthoiough-iv isthoiough-iv r.iniillai witli the paiticiilaisol Hie 'Incident lelened to In thelattei p.nt of the dispatch, having been ovei the route main times and at tlie scene a few das altei It happened. The ells-patch ells-patch s,is Kvansville, I nil. Maich .11 The Ila.letou lili on Hie Kvansville and Teue Haute mad was washed avvav today, closing trattlc between Kvans-vllleand Kvans-vllleand Viiicenues. A hard lain has been falling loi hums rendeiing tlie general situation moie seiioiis. The ilaleton till was constiucted ata cost of Jitoo.ooo and arter man eais" .work. It was at tills point ten eais agotliat dining a siiuliai Mood, an entile en-tile passengei train on Hie Kvansville Kvans-ville and Teue Haute disappeaied in a quick sand which is at theWtomof the till, and nothing but a piece ol ,one coach was evei louiid. It wasnev-cfcr wasnev-cfcr known how many weie killed, as 'no bodies ul tiainciew oi p.issengeis were evei lecoveied . Tlie stateiuent made in tlie lattei part ol the above paiagiaph may seem Ineiedible, but Hie aie absolutely 'iiie. In eveiy paillculai. The accident acci-dent happened late n the evening and though evei elloit was made dining the icm.tindci of tlie night and foi d.is following, not a tiaceof tlie en glue, coaches not bodies weie evei I lound. Tlie wiltei knew a numliei or pel sons on tlielll-f.iled I lain, Coiiduct-oi Coiiduct-oi (ieoige Seats, especial!, ami knows many lelatives who stood on the scene with hieaklng beaits The veiy fact that not a single vestige of tlie dead could be round made it all the moie diulcult rortiieii lelatives to Ix-ai. The Kvansville jfcTene Haute foi-lows foi-lows the Wabash very closely foi miles and the liver Is one with a shallow channel and low banks. For a number num-ber of miles the i ail road is 'Milled" to a height of tiom the to llftcen feet. When the Wabash tiscsand oveitlovvs its banks it not Infrequently Uses to such an extent that It covets the tail-load tail-load tiack. The pai tlcular place re-feired re-feired to aliovo was ever consldeied dangerous loi the leason that then. Is a decided bend in the rlvci theie and it tuins tow aid tlie tiaek. Aftei excessive ex-cessive lalns hi the north, a gieat volume ol watei came down on the night mentioned above, broke over the bank at this bund and the tenlllc anient an-ient dashed against this till. As the ill-staned tiain ciosscd this place It is supposed the Jar pioved the last stiaw and about six hunched feet of the till and Hie train was swept away. It was not two bonis before wiecklng trains weie on I lie scene of the accident, but tliecuiient was so stiong that all ef-foits ef-foits to (hedge oi accomplish anything any-thing weie wholl futile. Theie was no lloaliug wieckage, nor did this evei come to the surface. In a month the water had subsided, the lhei was hack In Its natui.it channel and the scene ol the wieck nothing but an expanse ex-panse of di sand. It was not known how man pas-Isengeis pas-Isengeis and employes weie oil the ; tt.iiu at the time of the accident, but a coiiseivatlve estimate placed the iiiiinbei at twenty-live. Incitement in soul hei n Indiana and Illinois was intense, and the lallioacK niu exclusions exclu-sions to tlie scene of the accident. Though theie was less than nothing to see, enoiinoiis ciowcK Hocked theie, gaed foi bonis at the damaged till and swilling wateis and felt they had seemed their money's woitli. Months afteiwaid, small poitioiisof wiecked coachesweie lepoitedas having hav-ing been round on the banks ol the lower Mississippi, and it was thought possible that this wieckage was a poitloii poi-tloii ot tlie cats sunk at the Ilaelton till, but there was no complete Identification. Identi-fication. Theie w.ii but little exca-, vating rot the sunken train, and' sliiiitly alter.the washout was lelllled and theie has nevei been anv dangei suae until at tl.i-. tin |