Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-25
|H[ WRECK At EKuNE
Passenger Train on the G. B. &
Z. C. Runs Over Forty Foot
Embankment.
Three Coaches Piled in a Con-
fused Heap..Many Miracu-
lous Escapes.
Four Passengers Thought TO
Have Been Fatally Hurt.
List Of Injured.

curve at the terminus of deep cut OH
the Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City
railroad late yesterday afternoon. two
miles east of Exline, a flag station be-
tween Moulton and Cincinnati. rail
lowered and ditched the combination
bination smoker and passenger coach
and chair car. Considering the manner
in which the cars piled up and the
| frightful leap they took down the forty
foot embarkment it is miraculous that
all the passengers were not instantly
killed Three or four were fatally in
jured and dozen or fifteen more or less
injured.
Following is the list of injured SO far
as known.
James Mace, UnionvilIe. Mo-, badly
mangled, hurt internally; will die.
Mrs James Mace, Unionviller No.: Sc
verely injured.
wyman seewright, Lancaster, Nd,
injured internally; will probably die.
John Seewright, Kansas City. Mo-.
breast and back hurt; serious.
Miss Sophie Peterson. Cedar Rapids.
Ia, limbs broken, otherwise badly and
probably fatally injured.
George Freeland, Browning, Mo-, back
badly injured.
Mrs. NJ. Freeland, Browning, Mo-, In
jured internally; serious
II. c. Moore, Bloomfield, Ia. mail
clerk; injured about face and head.
A. Snider, brakeman, Carrollton, Mo-,
collar hone and arm broken,
Mr.. and Mrs. Maring, Lancaster. Mo-,
both seriously injured.
Mrs. Honly, wife of station agent at
Bloomfield, arm and leg broken.
Mary Corydon. Moulton, Ia.
j. F. Huffman, Moulton, Ia.
George Headly. Moulton. Ia.
j. w. Whittimore, Lawrence, kas.
Jw. Hayes. Drakeville, Ia.
r. B. Browning Keokuk, Ia.
Owing OF the fact that the injured are
being cared for in farm houses near
the scene of the wreck, the exact ma
ture of their injuries can not be learned.
The train was making between thirty
five and forty miles an hour and had
passed thru the major portion of
heavy curve in a deep cut. Just at the
end of 1t some repairs had been made
to the track. including the plncing of a
new rail which had been insuf!iciently
fastened. Engineer A. Ong OF Carroll
ton. Mo-. did not see the! slow flag.
The engine passed safely over the
weak place in the track but the COM
bination baggage express and mail car
left the rails and rolled down the forty
foot embankment, carrying with 1t the
accommodation coach and chair car.
The three cars were piled on top of each
other. some of them broken in two and
others with the ends splintered and
sides crushed.
The engineer and fireman were APP
palled and supposed they We're the only
persons on the Inflated train that had
escaped unhurt. They made all haste
to the bottom of the gully and began
dragging the dazed passengers from the
splintered coaches Those hut slightly
hurt were pressed into service and the
work of caring for the more seriously
injured was begun. Conductor Scovern
OF Carrollton. Mo-, was taken out, and
after he had recovered his senses began
directing the work of caring for those
badly hurt.
The assistance Of farmers, was se-
CuTeu Gu0 u luiIlcu AuttlS W NsAooi-
ton with the engine for surgeons. ALI
the medical men in town were taken
back to the wreck and the injured pas
esngers cared for.
Fifty sacks of mail have been sent
back to Moulton. some of them with
holes burned in them. This gives rise
to the theory that fire MAJ, have been
added to the horrors of the situation.
Exline lie without Geographic or tele-
phone communication. Two cars of the
train are lying at the bottom OF gully
forty feet deep The road bed is torn
up for a hundred feet.
Exline is small way station few
miles from the Missouri line in Appa-
moose county, Iowa, sixty miles south
west of Ottumwa.
BANK ROBBERS ARE CAUGHT.
Men Win Rroke into Rudd Bank are