Missouri Valley times., 1899-06-01
DISASTER ON AN
IOWA RAILROAD.
Passenger Train on the Burlington
Cedar Rapids and Northern
Wrecked Near Waterloo.
NINE KILLED AND THIRTY INJURED
Some Of the Latter Are Badly Hurt
and Will Probably Die Of
Their Injuries.
HORROR CAUSED BY A wAsHouT

The Whole Train Ditchcd and Sew
cral OF the Coaches Are Telc-
scopcd---l.ist of Dead
and Injured.
Waterloo, Ia. May 3O.--The worst
wreck i'm the history of this section of
Iowa occurred about 1880 O'Clock Sum
day morning ON the burlington. Cedar
Rapids and Northern railway, about
four miles southeast of Waterloo. The
result is the death of nine persons, and
the injury of thirty others. The alarm
reached Waterloo about am hour after
the wreck occurred, brought by S. Il.
Bentley, who escaped from the demol-
ished cars in which he was passen-
ger.
Killed nnd Tnjurcd.
The list of dead is as follows:
T. l.. ARNOLD, lumberman, Minnie
apois, Mimi.
w. A. M'LAUGHLlN, Muskegon,
Mich.
r.. III. sCIlWEPPE. Alton, Ill.
DAVID lIALI.O, Minneapolis.
+. S. CARPENTER, st. Louis.
- HAWKINS. Pullman conductor.
WILL SCIIOLLIAMs.
GEORGE WAINWRIGHT train con-
ductor.
ONE UNKNOWN PERSON.
Among those injured were:
S. L. Bentley, Waterloo.
Ruben Odcll, Waterloo
Herman Klein Dcnct, Waterloo.
S. II. Bashor. Waterloo.
Miss Anna II. Moss, from Norway,
Immigrant. right leg badly bruised.
Miss Ostranda Noredy. Norwegian,
hand and face badly bruised.
Ornon Noredy, Norwegian, serious
Injury to chest.
John +. johnson, Norwegian, scri-
Gus injury to head and face
Jeremiah Murphey. of Castlcton-
boro, Ireland. going to Butte City,
Mont, head injured serious.
Mrs. n. Il. Myers, prentiss, Wis,
head injured, not serious.
c. w. Matthews, Cedar Rapids, brake
man, bruised, not serious.
f. ID. Sllang, Van Burcn, Ark. leg
injured, not serious; j. u. Neel, Minnie
uPolls>. knee ITdcIllTCu.
II. l.. Colvin. ST. Louis, Pullman por-
ter slightly injured.
w. j. Burke, Cedar Falls, la.
Corinnc Neil. Minneapolis, Minn
ID. w. Fleming. Albert Lea. Mimi.
Mrs. Morganstern, st. Paul, Minn.
Anna Berba, Tower, Mimi.
George Petrociz, Tower, Mimi.
Arund Aslallsen, Norway, la.
Rcscuing the Injured.
A relief train loaded with workers
and physicians hurried to the scene.
The work of rescung the injured
was facilitated by groans from within
the splintered cars.
The Inflated train was No. 5, sched-
nled To arrive at Waterloo at 20 Sun
day morning. 1t was II little behind
time. but running ut the usual rate of
speed.
At the throttle was engineer William
Durlin, of Cedar Rapids; the fireman
WAS j. NJ. Cibney. of the same place.
Their escape seems miraculous The
locomotive lies at least thirty feet
from the track, partly buried in the
rails are so torn up that TO locate the
iodAi''''i ~ .tll liilllpSSIlollllN.
The cause of the disaster was n
cloudbrrst mile south of the track.
The wreck occurred near Sink creek,
where there is Il railroad culvcrt built
of massive blocks of stone. This was
undisturbcd by the force of the WA
ter. but not so With the looser mate
rial with which the track is ballasted
ON either side. Sand and gravel were
washed out from under the track.
leaving it unsupported for stretches
OF from two to twenty feet. The rails
held stoutly together and there was
little to Indicate to the engineer the
condition of the road before him.
On. i'm the darkness. the train
plunged over the wet rails. which elis-
tened in the glare of the headlight and
seemed TO show a clear track ahead.
All at once a lurch OF the engine
warned the engineer of impending dis
astcr. He and The fireman leapcd from
the cab and miraculously escaped
with slight injuries. Freed from the
track. the engine plowcd its way deep
INTO the earth alongside of the track
until the momentum could carry it no
further. and stopped lying on its side
in the ditch. Behind it the cars of the
train are piled up in a confused heap.
The mail car was tipped about half
way over toward the right and par
TALLY telescoped by tho baggage car
behind, which penetrated it three or
fonr feet. The rear end of the bag
gage car telcscoped the smoker TO The
depth If fifteen feet. The rear half
of the smoker was raised up. resting
upon tle.Soof of the passenger coach.
BchiENathis We're the two cars which
sulfeEfd most severely The roof of
the sleeper plowcd IFS way through
the coach within ten feet of the front
end. while the lower half of the day
coach penetrated as far into the
sleeper
I'm this part of the train occurred the
greatest loss of life. Many who cs
capped have thrilling stories to relate
and there We're also several tragedies
reported. F. s. Carpenter. the Pull
man conductor who was killed was on
the train for one run only. taking the
place of the regular conductor who
Wasin the i'll fated Pullman which w,e
telescoped, with Train Conductor
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