Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-26
MANY K|LL[D.|N WRECK
Passenger Train Goes Thru a
Bridge Near Peru. Indiana.
Sixteen Killed.
The Dead Are Mostly Italian I'm.
migrants and Their Names
Are Unknown.
Number Of People Injured.
Among Them Wife Of Road
Superintendent.

Peru, Ind, June 26.-Sixteen per-
sons were killed and about fifty seri-
ously injured in the wreck of train No.
l3, west bound Wabash limited, nine
miles west of this city, at 1890 a. m.
today The dead are all italian emil
grants en- route to Colorado. Many Of
the injured will undoubtedly die. The
dead are: sixteen Italian emigrants,
names unknown. The interpreter is
missing. The injured:
Mrs. William Gotten, wife of Gen.
Supt. Iron Mountain railway: badly
bruised
Three children, names unknown, Sc
verely bruised.
David Agnew. Green Oak. Ind. arm
injured.
John Mara, Denver, leg broken.
Unknown Italian, New York.
Nicola Polaska and John Ickes, New
York
Anna Juber st. Louis badly bruised.
Joseph Pozza. Trinidad, Colo, head
and foot injured
Herbert Menger. Hilsdale, Mich, face
cut.
Joseph Cruz, italian, New York.
Mrs. Joseph Cruz will die
Geo. S. Miner, Alton, ILL.,, leg broken.
John f. Williamson. Bowling Green,
Ohio, news agent, both arms, both legs
and right shoulder blade broken.
e. p Claugh, Toledo. Ohio, head badly
crushed.
j. b. Wood. Logansport, Ind, head
and body badly cut.
Rev Ea fh ar yVolcch Loco pe,r,ort J,,.l
foot crushed.
John Wilkins. Lafayette, Ind, arm
and shoulder broken.
jured.
Charles Flanagan, flagman, bruised.
John Adams. fireman.
]. S. Butler, mead bruised
j. b. Lucks. Logansport, Ind
Twenty others whose names have not
yet been obtained were cut and bruised
The train. which consisted OF COM
bination baggage ard express, conshina-
tton baggage and smoker, day coach
emigrant three chair cars, three sleep
ers and the private car of General su-
perintendent Gotten, of the Iron Mount
ain railway. was an hour late and was
speeding westward at high rate when
had been undermined by the recen.
heavy rains to the bottom of stream
forty feet below. Engineer Butler and
Fireman Adams were thrown from the
cab but We're not seriously hurt. The
express and first chair car We're tele-
scoped and the emigrant car. followed
by two chair cars, went down on the
left side of the track. The first sleeper
pitched forward upon the mass of deb
ris, but none of its occupants were in
jured. The remaining cars also left the
tracks. hut We're not badly damaged.
1t was in the emigrant and day
coaches that most of the deaths and
Injuries occurred. There was absolute
iy no means by which the engine crew
could see the impending danger from
the fact that the engine ran out upon
the trestle before the structure gave
way. The night was intensely dark A
few minutes after the fatal plunge the
trainmen rushed to the ne:ghboring
farm houses for assistance. The farm
ers with their wives and children bear
ing torches hastened to the scene and
all efforts were bent on giving aid to
the injured. Telephone messages were
dispatched to this city and every physi-
clan was hurriedly taken to special
train, which carried them to the scene
The injured were placed aboard cars
and brought to the general hospital in
this city. where everything possible was
done to ameliorate their condition.
Many operations are necessary The
most notable one was performed on
John Williamson, news agent. aged a.
Both of the boys arms. both of his legs
and his right shoulder blade were
broken. The lad bore up wonderfully
and possibly may recover.
For time after the rescuers reached
the scene of the wreck little could be
done in the way OF removing the dead
Hundreds of tons of twisted iron and
broken timbers rested upon the car
where the unfortunate emigrants were
crushed.
BY means of wreckng derricks the
mass was gradually opened and by day
light nearly all the dead had been re-
moved to this city