Two conductors escape from derailed train after it submerges in Texas floods… and state’s residents brace for MORE RAIN from remnants of Hurricane Patricia

Saturday, October 24, 2015
By Paul Martin

Union Pacific train carrying gravel derailed in floods south of Dallas
Two crew members aboard were able to escape and swim to safety
Train was near Corsicana, which has received more than 18 inches of rain
Deluge comes as remnants of Hurricane Patricia mix with another storm
Large swaths of Texas under watches and advisories for floods

By CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN
DAILYMAIL.COM
24 October 2015

first effects of Hurricane Patricia.

No injuries were reported in the derailment, where two conductors were able to escape from their downed train before being picked up by emergency workers in Navarro County, south of Dallas.

Some areas of the state have already seen more than 20 inches of rain as precipitation from one storm system, with much of central and southern Texas under flash flood watch until Monday.

Rain has been worst so far in Navarro County, where a Union Pacific train locomotive and several of its cars derailed around 3.30am after water from a nearby washed over the tracks.

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