The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-07
Frightful Wreck on Milwaukee
Road in Iowa.
THE ORDERS WERE DIsREGARDED
Trainnen and Lnborers Crushed in
Collision of Freights-Injured
Number Forty.

4 Marshalltown, Iowa, Aug. 7.-To-day's
developments show that fifteen persons
were killed and forty injured in the
freight wreck on the Milwaukee road yes
three cannot recover. 1t is possible more
bodies may be found, as the iwreckage has
not yet been entirely cleared away.
A fast freight and gravel train on the
Omaha division Of the Milwaukee road
collided two miles west OF Rhodes. Fol-
lowing is the list of the dead: -
BRENNAN. FRED. engineer work train.
train.
FIREMAN, name unknown.
TWELVE LABORERS. -
Among the injured are: IT,.
Thorp. William, fireman freight train.
Kingman, Otto M. ~7.-r''
The wreck was the worst in the history of
the road, and was caused. 1t is alleged, by
| the disregard of orders by the conductor
of the work train. l.=-.
Officials of the road are now holding
an investigation to place tho blame.
Conductor Clearly at Fault.
From the information in the possession
pears that the work train, in charge OF
Conductor Craig, started west from
Rhodes without orders, and notwithstaad
| ing the fact that the signal was set
against the work train and that the tele-
graph operator informed Conductor Craig
that the freight train had already left
| Collins, the next station west of Rhodes,
and was then east-bound between the two
| places. >".-" -
The officials of the company are utter
ly at loss to explain the conduct OF
| Conductor Craig and that of the engineer
of the work train in leaving Rhodes with
out orders, with the signal set against
their train and the information that an
other train was on it's way. Relief trains
were sent out promptly, and, every ale
was given to the injured men.
Stuck to Their Engines. ~
One Of the tiremen jumped when he saw
a collision was inevitable, and thus saved
his life, but the engineers and the other
fireman stuck to their posts. in an en-
deavor to save their engines, and went
down to death.
The car in which the laboring men had
been riding was shattered to bits, an6
the fragments thrown far and wide. -
The men, however, had been crushed
down. by the weight of the other cars
which piled on top of them, and those
who were not instantly killed were fright
fully mangled. =,
One poor fellow was pinned down by {
heavy piece of iron, which rested acros:
his chest. .:'..
blood. was streaming from his side ant
he was in great agony. go
1 He begged one of the rescuers to pu
an end to his misery with bullet; moth
ing could be done to remove him until
huge pile of wreckage had been removed
and by the time this was done death hat
come to'the mans relief. ~. a.. -
/ Another man. with both legs cut, of
above the knees, but who was prevente,
from bleeding to death by a timber tina
, rested on his legs close to the body, thu
shutting off the flow Of blood, urged tn
4 workers not to stop to get him out bu
4 to devote their energies to saving other
s who were moaning piteously near by.
+ This man did not at thatftime1 know hi
I1egs were gone, and supposed he wa
:. simply held down by the, timbers, tn
shock having dulled all feeling below tn
waist. .>~-~-~ s... -v.. :5a.> = -.. .
;: Fireman Thorp Dying. :5
+ special train sent to Des Moines too
Enine of the injured, One OF them, Fire
man William Thorp, is dying.
): This train was IN charge of DR.. A. v
Trout, the Milwaukee's surgeon at PER-.
II Otto NJ Klingman Of Rock Island wa
among the wounded taken to Des Moine
His right arm was broken and he wa
badly bruised. He was on the work trail
+ The thirty injured who were not take
7 to Des Moines, were left in and nea
Collins; Iowa. ..+ - ~,
f Aside from the train crews, the in
jured men live in the east and had bee
brought out by the company to do cor
struction work. Their names have ne
: been secured. They have no relatives
this state.
The conductor who is charged with ha,
Ling disobeyed orders and brought abol
the accident has not been seen since tt
>, wreck. fr..' .-.,S-.