The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-29
Track Was Unsupported for Twenty
Feet-Nothng to Indicate the
Danger--A Cloudburst
Did the Work.

w. A. MCLAUGHLIN, Muskegon,
Mich.
r. H. SCHWETTE. Alton, Ill.
DAVID HALLOW, Minneapolis.
F. s. CARPENTER, st. Louis.
=. -. HAWKINS, Pullman conduc-
tor.
GEORGE WAINWRIGHT, train con-
ductor.
WILL SCHOLLIAN, Waterloo Ia.
ONE UNKNOWN PERSON.
Among those injured were:
s. E. Bentley. Waterloo, la.
Reuben ODell. Waterloo. Ia.
Herman Klein Denet Waterloo, Ia
Miss Anna II, Moss, Norway, emf
grant, right leg badly bruised.
Miss Ostranda Noredy, Norwegian.
hand and face badly bruised.
Ornon Noredy, Norwegian, serious in
jury to chest.
John e. johnson, Norwegian, serious
injury to head and face.
The above We're all going to North
Dakota.
jeremiah Murphy of Ireland going to
butte CllS, MONT, neau lilJuled. SSil-
Gus.
Mrs. N. E. Myers. Prentiss, Wis,
head injured not serious.
c.. w. Matthews, Cedar Rapids, Ia,
brakeman, bruised, not serious
j. L. Neel, Minneapolis, knee frac-
tured.
r. L.. Colv!n, st. Leuis, Pullman por-
ter, Slightly injured.
r. w. burlington, Chicago.
W. T. Burke, Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Corrine Neel. Minneapolis.
D. w Fleming Albert Lea, Mimi.
Mrs. Morgan Stein, St. Paul.
Ala Brbak, Tower, MINI.
George Petrociz. Tower, Mimi.
Arund Aslaken, Norway, Iowa.
A cloudburst had washed the sand
and gravel roadbed away. leaving the
track unsupported for a stretch of 20
feet The rails and the ties held to-
gether and there was nothing to indi-
cate the insecurity of the road, The
engine struck the washout and was de-
rallied in the ditch beside the track and
behind it the cars were piled in con-
fused heap. The mail car toppled over
and was telescoped by the baggage car
behind, while the rear end of the bag
gage 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 crushed through the
sleeper.
1uit nEI
from the train and escaped with slight
injuries.
MIR. Schwette of Alton, Ill. was
brought to this city alive, but died al
S o'clock. He was badly injured about
the head. He was on his way to Min
neapolis, where he was to be married
to-day. He asked his physician to tele-
graph his father and his sweetheart
Tell her" he gasped. that l have been
detained by a wreck and cannot keep
the appointment 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 pre-
pared and a relief train sent very
speedily The injured passengers were
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.
+. j. Day of Allison, Ia, a passenger,
said:
The train was running at good
speed and at point about three or
four miles from Waterloo it left the
track. The engine and baggage car
We're thrown about 10 feet. The engi-
neer evidently had his engine under
control. as ] never saw such a sudden
stop. The smoker, where I sat tele-
5coped the baggage car, and / found
myself with the brakeman on the roof
IF the day coach"
Will Schollian of Waterloo, Who
travels for ST Louis tobacco house
md makes his headquarters in this city !
suffered more severely than any other |
IF the Waterloo passengers. He was |
.ound in the second passenger coach, |
% which he had gone after leaving the |
smoker. with his arm crushed between |
he front end of the sleeper and the side |
If the car, holding him fast in the |
wreck. He did not lose consciousness,
out begged that his arm be sawed off |
30 as to set him free. When it was
.ound that there was no possibility of
saving the arm. this was done the
being effected by a COM
non handsaw. He displayed the ut
most fortitude and after he was re-
eaSed walked TO the adjoining farm
house of Mrs. Caroline Mericte where
lie was resting quietly at last reports
He is much weakened by loss of blood.
1ut he is not believed to have sustained
my other serious injuries.
Mr.. Day, in speaking of the cause of
he accident said:
There must have been water
;pout, for powerful stream of water