This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BAIRD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ei.2ADI/2383 Message Board Post: On June 28, 1859, the Springbrook river bridge [at Mishawaka] broke apart from heavy rains. A Michigan Southern express train east bound from Chicago late at night fell through the bridge into the mud thirty feet below. The engine and tender were buried completely below the cars of the train. Forty-one people perished in this accident. From: http://www.michiganrailroads.com Does anyone have any additional information about this event? Does anyone have a list of the dead? Searching for Thomas Baird of Washington, Tazewell County, Illinois who died in this accident.