The record-union., 1899-05-29
Train Wrecked at Sink Greek Cross
ing, Iowa.
Terrible Accident Caused By a Cloud :
burst.
It Washed Out the Roadbed, Leav-
ing the Rails Held Together
Only by the Ties-When the
: Train Struck the Spot the En-
gine Was DeraiIed and the Cars
Piled Up On One Another.


WATERLOO Qa), May 2S.-The
through train from Chicago to Mime
apolis over the Rock Island and Burl-
ington, Cedar Rapids and Northern
Railways was wrecked at 1:15 Sunday
morning at the crossing of Sink Greek,
about four miles southeast of this place.
Vhe train consisted of five coaches, in
CHUNG mail and baggage cars, smok-
ing car, two passenger coaches and a
sleeper. Nine persons were killed ana
twenty-three injured.
The list of dead is as follows: T.
Arnold, lumberman, Minneapolis. w.
A. Mclaughlin, Muskegon, Mich. r.
H Schwette, Alton, ILL., David Halo.
Minneapolis. F. S. Carpenter St. Louis.
= Hawkins, Pullman conductor. George
wainwright. train conductor Will
Schollian. One unknown person
Among the injured were: 5. E. Bent
ley, Waterloo, Ia. ReSyen Odell,
Waterloo, Ia. Herman Klein Denett.
Waterloo, Ia. S. B. Bashor, Waterloo,
Ia. Miss Anna H. Moss, Norway, emf
grant. right leg badly bruised. Miss
Ostranda Noredy, Norwegian, hand and
face badly bruised. Ornon Noredy
Norwegian. serious injury to chest.
John E. Johnson, Norwegian serious
injury to head and face. The above
We're all going to North Dakota. Jere-
miah Murphy of Ireland. going to
Butte Mont, head injured, serious Mrs
N. F. Myers, Prentiss, Wis, head in
jured, not serious. c. w. Matthews,
Cedar Rapids, Ia, brakeman, bruised,
not serious. ]. L. Neel, Minneapolis,
kree fractured. r. L. Colvin, st. Louis,
Pullman porter. slightly injured. B. w.
burlington, Chicago. w. Burke, Cedar
Falls, Ia Curran Neil, Minneapolis.
D. W. Fleming, Albert Lea, Minneapo-
lis. Mrs Morganstein, st. Paul Ala
Brba, Tower, MINI. George PetrociZ,
Tower, Mimi Arund Aslaksen, Nor
way, Ia
s. B. Bashor, who received internal
INJURIES but whose recovery is eX-
recred, is one of the best known Demo-
cratic politicians in Iowa, and before he
entered politics was pastor of a church
IF The United Brethren denomination.
cloudburst had washed the sand
and gravel road-bed, leaving the track
unsupported for a stretch of twenty
feet. The rails and ties held together
and there was nothing to indicat the
insecurity of the road. The engine
struck the washout and derailed in the
ditch beside the track and behind it
the cars We're piled in a confused heap.
The mail car toppled over and was tel
escoped by the baggage behind, 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, H..
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.
lie was on his way to Minneapolis,
where he was to be married to-day. He
asked his physician to telegraph lis
father and his sweetheart. Tell her"
he gasped, that I have been detained
by a wreck and cannot keep the ap-
pointment on time. Don't say any
more
The news was brought to this city
by d mail clerk, the fire whistle was
ily prepared and a relief train sent very
speedily. The injured passengers were
extricated from the debris and brought
here Another relief train soon ar
rived from Cedar Rapids and took
number of the seriously injured to be
treated in the hospital in that city.
II. j. Day of Allison, Ia. passenger.
said: '-The train was running along at
a COCO speed and at a point about three
or four miles from Waterloo, it left
the track The engine and baggage
car were thrown about ten feet The
engineer evidently had his engine under
excellent control, as l never saw such
a sudden stop. The smoker, where
sat, telescoped the baggage car and
found rlyself with the brakeman on the
roof CT the day 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
of 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 to the adjoining farm
house of Mrs. Caroline Maricle, where
he was resting quietly at last reports.
He IS much weakened by loss of blood.
but he Is not believed to have sustained
any other serious injury.
Mr.. Day, in speaking of the cause of
the accident, said: There must have
been waterspout for powerful
stream of water washed dirt out from
under the track for a distance. I should
think, of half mile. With the founda-
.ion 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"