Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-29
NINE KILLED.
Express Train Wrecked Near
Waterloo, Iowa, by Washout.
Nine Killed and % Injjured--- Washout
Caused by CIoudburst.
Brave Message OF Dying Man. Who Was 10
Be Married. Today.

through train from Chicago to Mime
'apolis over the Rock Island & Burling-
ton. Cedar Rapids and Northern Rail
ways was wrecked, at lis Sunday
morning. at the crossing Of Sink Creek,
about miles southeast of this place.
The train consisted of six coaches, in
Guiding mail ard baggage car. smok-
ing car, two passenger coaches and a
sleeper Nine persons We're killed and
% injured. The list of dead is as fol-
lows:
E. L. Arnold, lumberman, Mineap-
oils.
w. A. Mclaughlin, Muskegon, Mich.
r. II. Schwette, Alton, Ills.
David Halle, Minneapolis.
F. $. Carpenter. st. Louis. 4
- Hawkins. Pullman conductor.
George Wainwright, train conductor.
Will ScOllian Of Waterloo, arm
crushed and amputated.
One unknown passenger.
Among those injured We're:
Miss Ostranda Norody, Norwegian,
hand and face badly bruised.
OrnOn NOrody seriously injured in
chest
John +. Johnson, Norwegian, serious
injury to head and face.
The above We're all going to North
Dakota.
Jeremiah Murphy Of Castletonboro,
Ireland. going to Butte City, Mont,
head injured, serious.
Mrs y. +. Myers, Prentiss, Wis,
head injured. not serious.
G. W. Matthews. Cedar Rapids,
brakeman, bruised. not serious.
Ed Skang. Van Buren,, Ark, leg in
jured, not serious.
]. L. Neel, Minneapolis knee frac-
tured.
Il. L. Colyin, st. Louis, Pullman por-
ter, slightly injured.
Miss Anna y. Njosa. from Norway,
Immigrant, right leg badly bruised.
s. Z. Bentley. Waterloo. Iowa.
Reuben O'Dell. Waterloo.
Herman X. Donet. Waterloo.
s. II. Bashor, Waterloo.
B. w. burlington. Chicago.
W. 4. Burke, Cedar Falls. Ia.
Corrine Neel. Minneapolis.
d. w. Fleming. Albert Lea, Mimi.
Miss Morgansteel, St. Paul.
Anna Beiba. Tower, MINI.
George Petrecaz, Tower, MINI.
Arund Aslaksen, Norway, Iowa.
4 cloudburst had washed tine sand
and gravel roadbed. leaving the track
unsupported for a stretch of 20 feet.
The rails and ties held together and
there was nothing to indicate the in
security Of the road. The engine struck
the WashOut, and was deraied in the
ditch beside the track and behind it
the cars were piled up in a confused
heap. The mail car tipped over and
was telescoped by the baggage car be
hind. 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 fireman jumped
from the train and escaped with slight
injuries.
Mr.. Schwette Of Alton, H., was
brought to this city alive but died at s
O'clock He was badly cut about the
head and it was evident from the be
ginning that his injuries We're fatal.
He was on his way to Minneapolis
where he was to be married, today. He
asked his physician to telegraph his
father and his sweetheart.
Tell her he gasped. that | 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 whistle was blown,
switch engine and coach hastily pre-
pared and a relief train very speedily
sent. The injured passengers were eX-
tricated from the debris and brought
here. Another relief train soon ar
rived from Cedar Rapids and took a
number of the seriously injured to be
treated in the hospital in that city.