<TITLE>23. Par 89-92</TITLE>L-89 And out there, I got cut off from everything, out there myself. And I set out there marooned for about eight days where they had to drop me something to eat. I had a lot of time to think over on who I was going--going to listen to, God or somebody else, let it be one who loves his mother or whoever it was. You listen to what God's got to tell you...?...
I'd set there and I prayed and cried... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.] Got to make your stand. And then instead of standing up against it, I thought more of some--what some woman respected than what my own conscience and God was planting in my heart. I said, "Oh, God, what can I do?"
I looked down there and I met another fellow, and I fixing...?... "Did any of them in the hospital get drowned, you know?"
He said, "No, I don't think there was." He said, "I think they all escaped." And said, "Reverend Branham, I think your wife was on a box car, and they took her out to Charlestown when that boat went up."

L-90 Well, I run down to my car and got my speedboat, and come back up and put it on the back of my truck. Run up and started to cross. I set up there to...?... was back to it, and about six miles of water just waves through there.
Some of them said, "That train?" Said "It washed off the trestles right up there." Oh, my. There it was again. I tell you, brother, back down in behind this heart, there is sorrows that you know nothing about...
Then I put that boat in the water, and I tried hour after hour to pierce that current. And I couldn't do it. And then the water cut me off, and there I was marooned out there for about seven days I set out there. I had plenty of time to think things over. When the waters got down...?... I had two choices. I walked up there...?... [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]

L-91 They had on boots. I was going just as hard as I could. I run up to an old friend of mine, Mr. Hayes, called him Colonel Hayes, superintendent of the public service company. I went up to him, and I said, "Mr. Hayes." I said, "Did that train come through with that bunch of people fr..."
He said, "I don't know, Billy."
I said, "Let's go." We went on down through... Just a little bitty city there, about two or three thousand people. We went everywhere. Nobody had heard anything of my wife.
Oh, I thought, "Wife and babies are wound around some bailing wire or something or other down there in one of them swamps, and maybe plumb down in the south somewhere; swelled up, laying there in a bunch of bushes, drowned."
"Oh God," I said, "what can I do? What can I do?"

L-92 I went out. We went down to the railroad station. And there's a dispatcher there said, "Just a minute." Said, "I believe that train come through." Said, "The engineer of that train is here in the city today." Said, "He was supposed to be down here in a little bit to take a train out." Said, "I'll ask him." After while, he... I run to him as soon as they told me that was him coming."
I said, "Sir, did you drive the train from the government depot that come through?"
He said, "Yes, I drove that train."
I said, "Do you know Charlie Brumbach?"
Said, "Certainly." He said, "His daughter was on the train on back there with two sick babies."
And I said, "That's my wife, sir." I said, "Where they at?"
Said, "They're--they're somewhere. I let them off at, I believe at--at the Kokomo, Indiana."
And I said, "You did?"
He said, "Yes."


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