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Bridge in Louisiana, United States
This article is about the CSX Rail bridge. For US 90 Rigolets bridge, see Fort Pike Bridge.
Louisville & Nashville freight train number 71 derailed on the morning of January 7, 1896. The locomotive and 20 boxcars derailed and sank 50 feet underwater. 12 people died, one man nearly drowned, a telegraph operator was one of the many people that went missing, Jas Kenn, a German, nearly drowned and was badly crippled. The rest of the crew also survived the wreck. The cause of the accident was the engineer who didn't observe the regulations of the approach to the draw, running the red signal
