Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-02
HARRY Dudley 5 Death
Worst Fears OF Friends Here
Confirmed by Personal
kilograms.
R. A. nugan verifies T..R. Re.
port Of His Death at
Berry. Ala.
Further Particulars Of the Acct.
dent Something Of bud.
ley's Career.

leyS Career.
4 The worst fears that existed in the
minds of friends of Harry Morley Dud-
lev. after the news of the T.-R. an.
nouncing the accidental death OF Train
master H. n. Dudley, in wreck OF
1.-THE Southern railway near Berry, Ala
were confirmed Monday night when, al
s O'Clock. Miss Ida Dugan received from
/. her brother, r. a. Dugan, assistant to
the president and purchasing agent OF
THE Southern, at Washington. D. C.,
message stating that Harry Dudley had
been killed.
| While the many friends of the young
man had generally accepted the Tx. 3
dispatch to refer to the Harry Dudiey
known here, some held to the nope tha1
Iperhaps there was an error somewhere,
and that perhaps instead OF belnE
killed he had only been injured. The
telegram from Mr.. Dugan, however.
blighted any hopes that were enter
tanned
Further Particulars Of Wreck.
The Associated Press sent out this
morning further particulars OF the
wreck. The train on which Mr. Dudley
was riding was bringing an excursion
from Greeneville, Miss, TO Birmingham
1t was wrecked on a rough place on this
road and the engine and six coaches,
the latter filed with negroes. We're
t,,r,,o o,,a,. aud 6aYnOliShcd
Many OF the victims were mangled.
some OF them being in an unrecogniz-
able shape.
Superintendent C. S. Hayden of the
Birmingham division with physicians
from Birmingham, and other points
left shortly after 10 o'clock for the
scene, while wrecking crews from Col
umbus, Miss, and Birmingham also
We're sent in n short time.
The train was making about thirty
miles an hour when the accident oc-
cured Engineer Cook was at the
throttle, with colored fireman. Con-
ductor Weber was in charge of the
train. At a point between Berry anc
Balkston, the engine left the track
and rolled over on it's side. The negroes
aboard began screaming at the top OF
their voices and all the passengers be-
came panic stricken, while the criea
of the injured added to the confusion
Those of the crew who escaped injury
Immediately sent word to the first tel
egraph station to notify the Office of the
superintendent. Then the work Of res
cue began. The message to the super
intendents Office was very meagre
4 ,t,@; sl1- -.
cars Of the excursion train had been
wrecked.
H. M. Dudley, trainmaster, with
headquarters in Birmingham was frs:
reported injured. Engineer Cook way
badly scalded as was his fireman. They
We're taken out from under the wreck
and their condition is reported seri-
Gus.
Negroes by the dozen We're picked up
manned in various ways. The mes
sage stated there Were twenty-five al
least dead, men, women and children.
while no less than twenty-five were
more or less hurt, many fatally
! The cars. which We're packed with
passengers. turned completely over
several times, and were crushed like
eggshells, killing and Gripping the in
mates. Persons who have returned
from the scene of the wreck say it is
understandable. The bodies of the ne
groes We're scattered in every direction.
ana the means and appeals for he'll,
from the wounded We're leartrender-
ing.
Something Of Dudley's Career.
Mr.. Dudley was born in Texarkana,
ARK, and would have been % years of
age had he lived until next January.
His father, the late Ethelbert T.. Dud-
ley, moved to st. Louis when his son
was very young, and in that city Mrs.
Dudley died. The motherless boy, then
only or 5 years of age. was placed in
charge of his aunt, Mrs. Garth, of st.
Louis Mr.. Dudley then being in active
railroad life. Harry remained with his
aunt until he became old enough to be
sent away to school, when he entered
the Shattuck Military College, at Fari-
bault, Mimi, and remained there until
he received his education. His father,
in the meantime, had resigned his posi-
ton as superintendent of the Missouri
Pacific, and came to this city, in the
spring of 1884, as general manager OF
the Iowa Central, of which property he
was later made receiver. Mr.. Dudley
left here in 1889, when Charles III. Ack-
ert took charge of the Central as gem
eral manager, and went to st. Paul,
where he was made first vice president
and general manager of the ST. Paul &
Duluth. He was acting in these capacf-
ties when his death occurred at the
Hotel Ryan in January, 1890.
In the fall of 1891 an orphan boy, 16
years of age, came to Marshalltown
looking for work. That boy was Harry
Dudley, and the reason for his coming
here was that the general manager of
the Central had been his fathers friend.
Mr.. Ackert furnished him a position as
an office boy, and he remained here
about year. Alex e. Plough, who was
general freight agent under Mr.. Dudley
on the ST. Paul & Duluth, and who sue
thought he could offer the son of his
friend better inducements on the St.
Paul road, and the hoy went there and
remained for some little time. Deciding
on a change he returned to Marshall-
town and for Year was engaged in the
brokerage business here, then having
grown to young manhood. He went
from here to Louisiana and spent four
or five months With a firm of contrac-
tors, and later returned to his first love,
iaiIroadng, and again under Charles RI.
Ackert. then president and general
,,,.,nnper4 of tl1p E1yin Tniipf e, EnSterr.