Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-02-09
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Iowa Central Snow Plow Runs
Into Passenger Train=-No
One Hurt.
Deraiiments Of Freight Cars-=
Traffic on All Lines
Delayed.
Storm General in Iowa and
Causes Trouble to the Rail-
way Lines.

a head-end collision on the Iowa Cen
trail between q DOUBT header snow plow
extra and the south bound pass@ngerI
No 4 at Nesvburs 9 delaiiment in incl
yards at Pickering and another dsrail-
ment in the east yards in this city, the 4
running Of extra pisfvs and iian SIS ever
the entire system leIays TO passenger
trains on all of the dads entering Mar
sshalltown, gave yistence this morning of
the severity OF tn snow storm that
ragged all day fFiaay and up til latsl
Friday night
Not passengAe train intro Narshan-
town was on tins during the night
hours Friday, exeapf ping oli4. and it got
into mix Up foi ID audacity; and AZ
similar condition prevailing His mori,
siiig told that tile 4tlid, that rose after
& NE s;ioM quit failsgs Irridas night, had
accomplished It's Mafk and caused
erifts thru When ven sucn massive
machines as locomotives could not pass
Without delays.
The Gentral's line Was not affected so
much north as il was south. similar to
DIS situation of the siarln d weels ago.
and Friday night the only passenger
that pulled into MsrsflalilcMn sfslSion
O. time w:ss NJ from The noitii.S
This morning CnrdIlc.or I'm Young
vas the only man who brought pas
sengei' train into this paint on the
dot and he had last twenty minutes
at Rockwell in wait!ns for No. &. from
tie south. which Mas tNp holrs late
TIE NE,AlslsI SIsC; MINITI'
Shortly after O'Clock this nierilins
1.-THE FIRST accident uf the winter caused
by q snow storm On the central o
Ienlrei Friday tyc ring to cieal tilg
lsl.ow from irs front of The south sbolrd
{ / ass ny No, 2. an Extra snaN Yslafs
train, Nessl WIS run south in "a sance
Eef the passenger tSf5luctor ,iaciSseiiS
irad the tram, consisting Of engine A.,
Engineer Tom I2styes and d uay car
4 The orders sSere an Os!Saioosa turn
around. and making tiie Trip north a
second engine MAS ssoiiTssl. No. ltl: in
elsarse Of fSngiiae 'IAn Coeiles. 81
t9skals,psa, The ebi az the double
issadet snow plosy xtstt Mas te kesp
the track cleared b front Of Mn 3. tie;
passenger from t'soila, 50 that sie
could make llssr running time north
/ tsss seilaet- Ne. 1. In charge q soraue-
i.tors George Dawson and Engineer Miles
/ lAsllefel with engine &c, left Marshall
I townsais time, as stated. and had llisat-
ing ordsls with the extra a N,.whurg,
When that station MIS- reached the
pa sse1lser tra9n waited The sl9nw 5sa !
4 blowing considerable. ard nothing could
/ be seen of the duuble-,ie header sisosV blow.
4 a wait OF several minutes Was made.
1 y hen suds!enly, as il looming tfoni eE
| the driving snow, tts i've pulling,
/ stearlsiiis engines appA ana w.se
b5it q few rods away I.tselaeer Kelle4
ler reversed his engine hoping 10 bss
/ big 70 back her. The s:lpNy would NOT
lsallssM the drivers 10 respond readily
/ the engine would net bulge, ard
pefpi he could do anything thu snosy
| ple~ and Two engines crashed into The
/. isasseafsts lpcoin9t!ve Engineer kelleS
i her jtsanfsa just as The engines struck
/ bist Fireman Ifipp, who lss,s engaged in
I5sileTeliiks gs,al and did not knowsof tho
approach q the other train did not:
!sase tiis!e. Luckily, however he Mas
sol hurt The 80 Was II It's badly dam
eyed as the result of tie collision The
pilot Was knorkad Of aud the tank
showed u against the cab. the ,ank
being bre6en 50 that all the water left
II, immediately. Combination mail. bag
gage and aSprnss car NJ. II which Mas
! NEXT % ~ engine was damaged quite
! badly as Was also the next coach. ire
smoking car Engine 81 which waS III
the lead q he double-hsaaer, Ms also
i damaged III. SNOW PICK and front end
Icing bfpSen The big plow, however.
I sayed iiie locomotive from as much
damage p would otheiNise have oc-
iscui'red Engineer Coopg engjne. the
/ sfcpnd en- vas not damaged b All.
The Only cause giyel For tlfe wreck
3 is hat tln Storm was 50 s,sgeFe arc ~
snow 50 bad that the distance la the
station MAS nisjudgeti. f.liglt@sr Iavey
LOT course slew that No MES waiting.
! for the extras arrival ard steam was
shut On al 9 point about 4 mile south
i5of this TOXIN 1t seems haweyfi. that
/ latter the steam had aseif shut off a
+ hnse drift Sas encounlefeSss ard ria en-
Il gines had 81 be set u working as4in in
sorder 10 get thru is n ,issWingi
/ thru the sisaw it is supposed tina 4 more
i ground Was gained than the engineer
/ realized, ard he came IA Inc passenger
/ train before he knew III Engineer
4 payey i considered as ale 81 the mos,
careful engineers on the rood ard or
4 the ye,i1ger men is considered che of
/ the best eilgineers the company has.
PICKERING DERAIIsMisNT
The CIT railroad superstition that
! wrecks q yer come sinsIy but always
Fin thtses certainly proved Correct to-
day altlip two other lit5le affairs could
4 hardly BE- considered Mreeks. Al $40
/ O'clock Friday evening. wlile AT Pcx-
!, e.ing on The side track two cars OF
1loval freight No. H. nsrfli bound. in
charge 81 Conductor Sid ReWen. jump
/ ed the track and remained crosswise.
Two rail-lfngths of track ,ssre torn up
sTd four rs five hours nVsk we're re
/ auirea h1- he ~rcckng crew this lnorn-
! ing. Which was sent out from this city
at 800, in charge of Conductor James
]! Hayes, q Cskaloosa No 1863, the Sec
ond engine in the Newhrl-g collision.
and III charge of Engineer Caoney. took
the wrecktng derrick wreekei and a
gang Of workmep under General Fore
man G. II Mead. of The car shops. ID
4 the scene. Three machine shop en-
/ ployes, Hairy Lilly, j. H. Brady and
Alex Matson, accompanied the wreck
4 ing crew t. look after the repairs or,
.engine Al which was left al Newburp.
|engine SO and the damaged passenger
Tears having been brought To tins city,
EAST YARDS DAMAGE.
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