The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-29
NINE KILLED IN A WRECK.
CLoUDBURST HAD WASHED SAND
FROM THE RoADBED.

Cnts Piled Up Behind the Engine in
Confused heap-MaH Car ana
baggage Car We're TeIescOped.
sad Death of an Illinois Man Who
Was on His Way to lie Married.
The Engineer and Fireman Es-
capped.
Waterloo, Ia, May 2S-The through train
from Chicago to Minneapolis over the
Rock Island and Burlington, Cedar Rapids
and Northern Railways was wrecked at
1:l5 o'clock Sunday morning at the cross
ing of Sink creek, about four miles south
east of this place.
The train consisted of six coaches, in
cluding mail and baggage car, smoking
car, two passenger coaches and sleeper,
Nine persons were killed and twenty-three
injured
The list of dead is as follows:
Il. l.. Arnold, lumberman, Minneapolis.
w. A. Mclaughlin, Muskegon. Mich.
r. II. schwette, Alton. III.
David Halo, Minneapolis.
f. S. Carpenter, st. Louis.
- Hawkins, Pullman conductor.
George Wainwright. train conductor.
win sipolliams.
one unknown person.
A cloudburst had washed the sand and
gravel roadbed, leaving the track unsup-
ported 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 behind it the cars were pied up in a
| confused heap
The mail car tipped over and was tele-
seoped by the baggage car behind, while
the rear end of the baggage car, in turn.
! telescoped the smoker.
The roof of the sleeper ploughed its way
| through the day coach, while the lower
| half of the latter crashed through the
sleeper.
The engineer and fremen jumped from
the train and escaped with slight injuries
Was Going to BE Married.
Mr.. Schwette of Alton, H.. was brought
to this city alive, but died al o'clock
He was badly cut about the head, and
it was evident from the beginning thai
| 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 sweet
heart
"TeH her" he gasped that have beer
detained by a wreck and cannot keep tn
appointment on time. Don't say an,
more
F. ]. Day of Allison, Ia, a passenger
said:
"The train was running at good speed
and at a point about three or four mile
from Waterloo II left the track The en-
gine and baggage car were thrown abou
ten feet.
"The engineer evidently had his engin
under excellent control, as / never saw
such sudden stop
THE smoker where I sat- telescope.
the baggage car. and found myself, witt
the brakeman, on the roof of the da
coach"
A Drummcr's Rare Nerve.
striking example of cool nerve an
fortitude was shown by viii Schooliam,
drummer for ST. Louis tobacc
, house, who made his headquarters at Wa
! terloo He was found held in the passen
ger coach, his arm crushed between tn
front end of the sleeper and the side of Tn
coach. He did not lose consciousness
but begged that his arm be sawed off so a
TO release him. 1t was found that ther
was no possibility Of releasing the unfol
} tunate man in any other way so this wa
done. Schooliam gritted his teeth an
{ looked on while his arm was amputate
with common handsaw, not a moan CON
ing from the poor fellow as the crude ir
strument tore its way through bone an
Y sinew. After he was released, Schooliaf
walked almost unass1sted to a nearb
farmhouse. He was terribly weakened b
. loss of blood, however, and died this al
ternoon.