The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-07
Work Train and a Fast Freight Col
lide on Milwaukee Road Near
Rhodes, Iowa.
CONDUCTOR LEAVES THE
TOWN WITHOUT ORDERS
General Superintendent of Company
Issues a Statement in Which He
Says Signals Were Against Moving
Relief Trains Sent At Once and
the Wounded Cared for.

CO11LlNS, Iowa, Aug. IA IrelSnI
and a gravel train on the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul road collided
between here and Rhodes today, and
Engineer S. D. Marchkres, ~of the
freight train, and Fred Brennan, engi-
neer of the work train, were instantly
killed, as were eleven laborers, while
fully thirty were injured, some seri-
ously. Both of the dead engineers liv-
ed at Perry, and both left families.
The wreck is said to have been caus-
ed by misunderstanding of orders by
the conductor of the work train.
Seventy eight laborers were on the
work train. The freight met the work
train going at full speed on reverse
curve.
Officially Stated.
CHICAGO, Aug. 6.-The following
statement was issued from the office
of the general superintendent of the
Milwaukee & st. Paul road in this
city regarding the accident at Mar
shalltown:
''At 1920 this afternoon a work train
and a freight train collided on the
Omaha division of the st. Paul road
two miles west of Rhodes, Iowa, kill
ing both engineers instantly as well
as seven laborers. Twenty others, all
laborers, were injured.
From the information in the pos
session of the general superintendent's
office it appears that the work train,
in charge of Conductor Craig, started
west from Rhodes without orders and
Notwithstanding the fact that the sig
and that the telegraph operator in
formed Conductor Craig that the
freight train had already left Collins,
the next station west of Rhodes, and
was then eastbound between the two
places.
1.-The officials of the company are
utterly at a loss to explain the con-
duct of Conductor Craig and that of
the engineer of the work train in leav-
ing Rhodes without orders with the
signal set against their train and the
Information that another train was on
its way. Relief trains were sent out
promptly, and every aid was given to
the injured men.
Names of the Victims.
DES MONIES, Iowa, Aug 7.-At
1870 this morning a special train
brought in nine of the men injured in
the wreck at Rhodes. One of the men
The special train was in charge of DR.
A. w. Trout, the Milwaukee's surgeon
at Perry, who stated that in the wreck
eleven were killed and thirty nine in
jured.
Killed.
ENGINEER DENNIS MARKRESS
fast freight, Perry.
ENGINEER WILLIAM BRAYMAN
construction train, Perry.
Nine UOrLY1an on tho
train were seriously and possibly IA
tally injured. They are:
Fireman William Tharp, fast freight
Manila.
Eight workmen on construction
train were also injured.
Thirty construction train Workmen
now at Collins.
Otto M. Klingman, of Rock Island
was among the wounded brought here
His right arm was broken, and he was
badly bruised. He was one Of those
on the work train.
The thirty injured who were no
brought to Des Moines were left in an(
near Collins.
Fireman William Tharp, of Manila
who was on the regular freight, lost {
leg and was seriously bruised.
DR.. Trout said:
About thirty injured were left a
Collins. There are none so seriously
lhJureu as the nine prOugnC 10 de:
Moines tonight. Eleven were deaC
when 1 left the scene of the accident
The construction train was runninE
out from dinner and met the freigh
on a sharp curve. The speed of thu
train was known. Both engineers Wer,
killed and one fireman seriously in
jured. He was brought here tonight
One of his legs, the right, had to b.
amputated.
aside from the train crews the in
jured men all lived in the East anC
had been brought out by the compan.
to do this construction work. The.
were Irish and German largely, an
their names have not been secured
They have no relatives in this state"