The trestle was 100 feet long and from 12 to 25 feet high. The engineer felt it sinking and turned on a full head of steam, saving engine and baggage car, but not the three coaches with passengers.
A heavy rain storm was falling at the time. The coaches turned over and piled upon a miscellaneous wreck. No one was killed outright.
http://www.gendisasters.com/ohio/19960/batavia-oh-train-goes-through-trestle-july-1889
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