Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-09
OTTU VIVIAN KILLED
E. @. MCKINNEY, of South Ottum-
wa, Dies Instantly.
A BAD WEEK ON THE IOWA CENTRAL
Express Messenger Mortimer Heath
Said to be Badly lnjured-Tender
Jumps Track Near Geneva in Frank
lin county-Baeeaeeman Also Hurt.
[ From Fridays Daily.

lFrom Fridays Daily.l
Oskaloosa, July 5.-(SpeciaD The
lives of Mail Clerks E. c. Mckinney,
OF South Ottumwa. and Jud kembell,
of Grinnell. We're snuffed out in an in
slant yesterday afternoon between 3
and 4 o'clock in wreck on the Iowa
Central railroad two miles north of
Geneva, in Franklin county Express
Messenger Mortimer Heath, Of OF
tumwa was also badly injured, but just
to what extent is not known. Bag
gageman Morgan, whose residence Is
unobtainable at this time. was also
badly hurt The cause OF the wreck
was thetender leaving the track piling
up the cars behind it.
When two miles north of Geneva
yesterday afternoon and while swing
ing across the country at good rate
of speed the tender for some unac-
countable reason, presumably because
the rails spread at that instant, left
the track. Instantly the next car, the
mail car containing the two mail
clerks, left the rails. rolled over one
and one-half times and laid down the
embankment. The next car, following
the express car, followed. making an
angle with the mail car of about AZ
degrees. The smoking car mounted
these two cars and crushed in the end
of the mail car, instantly killing the
two mail clerks whose bodies were
found near the letter file case.
Ed Thomas, a clerks helper, was in
the mail car in the opposite end from
the two clerks. He says he felt the
COR lonva {,,cI- bo loDI-oJ
up he saw the two clerks in the other
end. He had just time to grasp an up
right post, heard a crash and saw the
smoking car crash into the end where
the mail clerks We're.
Details are difficult to learn 1t is
not known how badly Mr.. Heath is
hurt nor when the body of Mr.. McKim-
mey will be brought to 0ttumwa.
MIR. Heath Mot Fatally Hurt.
Marshalltown. July 5.-(SpeciaD =
Passenger No. 2. south bound. on the
Iowa Central railroad was wrecked
four miles south of Hampton at
O'Clock Thursday afternoon The ten
der jumped the track. the mail car and
baggage car following and the smoker
piled on top. Both mail and baggage
cars We're torn to pieces. Head Clerk
j. W. Kendall Of Grinnell and Clerk E.
c. Mckinney of South Ottumwa were
caught in the ~reckagc and Instantly
killed They ware found clasped in
each others arms. Mortimer c. Heath.
express messenger of 3ttumwa was
severely injured though not fatally.
Rageagenan John Morgan. Conductor
S. g. Chapman. both Of Mason City.
We're also injured. tho latter slightly.
Chapman was the ONLY one in the
smoker who was injured The train
was running thirty eight miles an hour,
and the wreekagc rile1 thirty feet
high. The caches and sleeper re-
NAMED on the track. The passengers
were unininIed. 1t IS the worst wreck
that ever happcl on the Iowa Central
Another Account.
Mason City. July AT four o'clock
yesterday afternoon the tender of an
Iowa Central passenger train jumped
the track near Hampton darailing the
mail. baggage and smoking cars. The
mail car crushed Postal Clerks Ken
all and Mckinney the former from
Grinnell and the latter from Ottumwa,
We're killed. Mort Heath the express
man. was badly hurt J. W. Mandan,
the baggageman was slightly injured.