Remembering the Flood Creek disaster

 More than 300 people visited the site of the No. 19 Chicago train wreck over Flood Creek. After a downpour Friday, skies were clear for the 100-year remembrance program of the June 2, 1916, train wreck at that site, on Saturday, June 4.
  The predecessor to the bridge, in the early morning of June 2, 1916, after heavy rains and quick repairs, gave way under the Chicago Rock Island Pacific No. 19 passenger train’s overloaded coach car, after the No. 19 received an unexpected influx of passengers from the Clipper No. 67 due to the storm. Seventeen died.
  “(The wreck is) one of Butler County’s most tragic accidents, as far as loss of life was concerned,” local historian Dave Clark wrote in his June 2 column.
  Read more in the June 9 Clarksville Star.