The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-29
More Than a Score of Passen-
gers Also Receive Iniur-
les in the Disaster.
DUE TO ACLOUDBURST
One Man Dies After Having an Arm
Sawed Of, While Another Vic
tim Was GOingto His Wedding.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

Through train from Chicago to Mime
\ polls over the Rock Island and
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern
railways was wrecked at Ills o'clock
this morning at the crossing of Sink
Creek, about four miles southeast of
this place. The train consisted of five
coaches, including mail and baggage
cars, smoking car, two passenger
coaches and a sleeper. Nine persons
We're killed and twenty-three injured.
The list of dead is as follows:
T. ARNOLD. lumberman, Mime
apolis.
w. A. MCLAUGHLIN, Muskegon,
Mich.
r. II. SCHWETTE, Alton, Ill.
DAVID HALO, Minneapolis.
F. S. CARPENTER, St. Louis.
HAWKINS, Pullman conductor.
GEORGE WAINWRIGHT, train
conductor.
WILL SCHOLLIAN; Waterloo.
one unknown person.
Among those injured were: S. Z.
Bentley, Waterloo Iowa; Reuben
Odell, Waterloo, Iowa; Herman Klein
Denet, Waterloo, Iowa; S. H. Bassor,
Waterloo, Iowa; Miss Anna H. Moss,
Norway emigrant, right leg badly
bruised Miss Ostranda Noredy, Nor
wegian, hand and face badly bruised;
Ornon Noredy, Norwegian, serious in
jury to chest; John h. Johnson, Nor
wegian, serious injury to head and
face. The foregoing were all going to
North Dakota. Jeremiah Murphy of
Ireland, going to Butte, Mont, head in
jured, serious; Mrs. \. E. Myers, Prem
tiss, Wis, head injured. not serious; C.
w. Matthews, Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
brakeman. bruised, not serious; j. L.
Neel, Minneapolis, knee fractured; r.
L. Colvin, St. Louis, Pullman porter,
slightly injured Will Schollian OF
Waterloo, arm crushed and ampu-
tated, will live; B. W. burlington, Chi
cago; w. Burke, Cedar Falls Iowa;
Curran Neil, Minneapolis; D. w. Elem
ing, Albert Lea, Mimi; Mrs. Morgan
stein, St. Paul; Ala Barba, Tower,
Mimi; George PetrOciz, Tower, Mimi;
Arund Aslaksen, Norway, Iowa.
cIoudburst had washed the sand
and gravel rOadbed, leaving the track
unsupported for a stretch of twenty
feet. The rails and ties held together
and there was nothing TO indicate the
insecurity Of the road. The engine
struck the washout and was derailed
in the ditch beside the track and be-
hind II the cars were piled in a con-
fused heap. The mail car toppIed over
and was telescoped by the baggage be-
hind while the rear end of the baggage
car in turn telescoped the smoker.
The roof of the sleeper ploWed its way
through the day coach, while the lower
half of the latter crushed through the
sleeper.
The engineer and fireman jumped
from the train and escaped with slight
injuries Mr. Schwette of Alton, Ill.
was brought to this city alive, but died
at o'clock. He was badly cut about
the head, and it was evident from the
beginning that his injuries were fatal.
He was on his way to Minneapolis,
where he was to be married to-day.
He asked his physician to telegraph his
father and his sweetheart. Tell her.
he gasped that l. have been detained
by a wreck and cannot keep the APP
pointment on time. Don't say any
more"
The news was brought to this city
by a mail clerk, the fire whistle was
blown, a switch engine and coach
hastily prepared and a relief train sent
very speedily. The injured passengers
We're extricated from the debris and
brought here. Another relief train soon
arrived from Cedar Rapids and took a
number of the seriously injured to be
treated in the hospital in that city
F. ]. Day of Allison, Iowa, pas
senger. said: THE train was running
along at a good speed, and at a point
about three or four miles from Water
loo it left the track. The engine and
baggage car were thrown about ter
feet The engineer evidently had his
engine under excellent control; as
never saw such a sudden stop. The
smoker where l sat, telescoped the
baggage car, and / found myself with
af +I.o,. 4
coach"
Will Schollian Of Waterloo, who
travels for a ST. Louis tobacco house
and makes his headquarters in this
city, suffered more severely than any
other of the Waterloo passengers. He
was found in the second passenger
coach, to which he had gone after leav-
ing the smoker, his arm crushed be-
! tween the front end of the sleeper and
the side Of the car holding him fast In
the wreck. He did not lose conscious
ness, but begged that his arm be sawed
off, so as to set him free When it was
found that there was no possibility OF
saving the arm this was DONE the am
putation being effected by a common
hand saw. Mr.. Schollian displayed the
utmost fortitude, and after he was re-
leased walked 10 the adjoining farm
house of Mrs. Caroline Mericle, where
he subsequently died.
Mr.. Day, in speaking of the cause OF
the accident, said: There must have
been a waterspout, for a powerful
stream Of water washed the dirt out
from under the track for a distance,
should think, of half a mile With the
foundation gone there was nothing to
hold up the rails, and as the weight OF
the train struck the weak spot. down
and over we went"