The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1878-01-25
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etrrsl, anil additional ail came from the
villagers ~ 1aniIsilln, who we're arsnsel
l,y ihr hniSe M ihe crash "A mefrifnl
Providence preserved the passengers
fr,sm tie usual trrrihl. feature III flrn
originating lrom lamrs stoves bui tho
occupants of the ilrst Two cars wer
brought face Ia face with death
by drowning, as the cars forming their
prisons settled gradually down In thr
water and sand. Measures for relief
we're well organized hy few lead.
Ing spirits, end suun the workers hewsl
AMI torc away timbera with u will until,
In lrss than two hours. every car was
cleared u its living occupants, tho
wounded being horne away 10 the river
hank un alcdgr~ hastily impruviael from
snplingH anl ear cushions. AMI thence to
thr genial warmth If tho cars which
had remained on the track. aud where
friends were ready Ia minister To their
ne.,la. Tclegrnms were dispatched to
Hartford anl Win.t,i for nil, and
special trains arrived soon after,
Hartford contributing dozen sur.
g.uns under tlr excitement occn-
stoned by the report that vt lsast tlfty
deaths Ind hapleued and wounds were
innunerablr, Tie worst injured wrro
removed To- hotels and private dwellings,
people throwing open their doors nnd
Offering every accommodation. Two
hours later the members NJ the party
allie 10 travel were sent home hy npe.
cial train over other roads niiorling con.
ucclion beyond the break. Meantime
search for tho a.aa began, and five
curpses of women were taken from thn
wreck. all having died from drowning.
Further search yielded tho bodics 81
riA young mrn who met death In tho
same way, having been standing on IL
front pleiiorm when the cnr went down.
anl being pushed under the water.
Stralige ~ ray, II MI aggregate of tlir.
teen deaths reported, NIL Int two nrr ly
drowning, ouly ahe passenger, Fretl
tiotshkins, aim engineer Hutch, dying
from injuries usually incident Ia such n
disaster ns tlis. 1he wounded number
nboul thirty.
Nenrly all the ,lead were in the iirrt
passenger cnr. which was almost com
pl.fr wreck. although One body wnH tnk.
IN from the second enr, where II WAS
found caught under II broken sent. Five
yotng men from Nsw Hartford, among
the killed, wer. Of "A purity NJ six who
wrr. IN the platform III cnr rnjuyinR Il
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nj the time.