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After several challenges, Perry broke into "Walk This Way," and emcee Joshua B. Lieb '94 said: "Mr. Braddox you can take that fiddle back to the bayou now. Congratulations, Joe Perry, on beating that hick...
Apparently, just minutes before, the tugboat MV Mauvilla had had an encounter with the same bridge. Pushing a tow of six barges strapped together, the ship had taken a wrong turn on the Mobile river and strayed into the bayou. In the fog and darkness, however, the barges became unlashed and began drifting. According to expert speculation last week, they may have hit the bridge, which was too low to let them pass. Someone on the tugboat radioed the Coast Guard for help. By then, however, the Sunset Limited roared into sight -- and plunged straight into disaster. The bridge gave...
...final death toll stood at 47. Not until Friday afternoon could rescuers retrieve the bodies of three crew members who had been trapped inside the lead locomotive, buried in 15 feet of mud. Miraculously, some passengers managed to escape even from a car totally submerged in the bayou. Bill Crosson, 57, had grabbed his wife Vivian, 52, holding her down so she wouldn't be thrown about as the train fell into the swamp. Water then came rushing in. "It just filled so quickly," he says. "All I could think about was 'we're goners.' " But the couple found...
Amtrak's coast-to-coast Sunset Limited derailed last week while crossing a damaged bridge near Mobile, Alabama. The accident sent the engine and several cars hurtling into the Bayou Canot, trapping passengers in the water and an ensuing fire. Forty-seven died -- nearly equaling all the other deaths in Amtrak's 23-year history. The apparent cause: a barge struck the bridge minutes before the train came across...
DISASTERS: Death in the Bayou...