Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-15
HEAD.oN COLLISION ON MlLWAu. {
KEE SUNDAY NEAR DEs.
MONIES.
B.&O. ENGINES OVERTURN
Three Killed in Milwaukee Wreck, and
Five in That on the Eastern Road
Fourteen Die as Result of Collapse
of Embankment in Spain Yesterday

Adel, Dec. flowing to a misunder-
standing regarding train orders, two
extra Milwaukee freights collided
with fatal results two miles east of
here early Sunday morning Three
The Dead.
DYER, OSCAR, D, fireman of east
bound train. Des Moines.
FINNICUM, FRANK, engineer, west
bound train, Des Moines.
WARD, WALTER. engineer east
bound train, Des Moines.
The Injured.
Bellman, H. H., brakeman, west
bound train, Des Moines, scalded and
bruised.
Chambers, George, engineer west
bound train; Des Moines, head bruis-
ed
Fields. brakeman east bound train,
Des Moines. cut about head.
Flynn. John S.,conductor west bound
train, Des Moines, back hurt
Richey. S. G., conductor east bound
train, Des Moines, slightly bruised.
Trains Meet in Deep Cut.
The wreck took place in deep cut
at point known as Graham's crossing.
The west bound train was double
header. Both trains were running
nearly forty miles an hour and crashed
together with only a moments warning
to the engine crews. The wreck of the
three engines is complete and they are
only fit for scrap iron. Fourteen cars
also were demolished. The two cars
next to the engine Of the east bound
| train We're filed with hogs and all were
killed or crippled. (
1 Engineer Tries to Stop.
4 Engineer Finnicu1n, engine 4S must
1 have discovered the approach of the
train from the west at a point about
+ $50 feet from where his body lay. Sand
was found on the track where he
I jumped, and he would have no doubt
escaped had he not struck a whistling
! post with his head with sufficient force
{ to crush his skull
The crew of the eastbound train,
Brakeman Field says, were not aware
of the danger until the trains collided.
i II is reported that Operator Give and
the dispatcher at Des Moines discoy-
cred that an error had been made in
the orders and endesvered to raise
WauEao by telephone ard telegraph,
& but did noI do SC in tine to head off
ltfa westbound in. Then they tried
/ the Adel Office I'd lost the blocking
1 of the eastbouna train by only one min
ute.
Five Killed on Baltimore G Ohio.
Piedmont. w. Va, Dec. 14.-Fiye
men were killed and several severely
injured by the oyerturning of two en-
gires attached TO heavy Baltimore &
Ohio freight grade on the seventeen
4 mile grade Sunday near this city.
i CARTER, ]. v, fireman, Cumber-
land, Nd
Erwin. ERNEST D., engineer, Cum
I berland. Md
/ Erwin, EMERY, engineer, Tunnell-
ton. w. Va.
/ HAYES, JOHN, brakeman, staunton,
/ Va.
4 NINE. WALTER B., fireman, Terra
Alta, w. Va.
The Injured.
e. G. Buckler, fireman, Terra Alta,
w. Va, legs, arms, and head cut and
bruised.
B. F. Bolinger, brakeman, Grafton,
w. Va. seriously crushed.
Michael j. Gibbon, engineer, Cumber-
land Md, fatally crushed
While descending the Seventeen
mile grade" the train to which were
attached two engines left the track.
II The engines and nearly all of the twen-
ty-four loaded cars tumbled into deep
ravine, carrying the trainmen with
them. The tracks were torn I'D for
nearly hundred yards.
Fourteen Killed in Spain.
Madrid, Dec. 14.-The collapse Of an
embankment near Cordova Sunday de.
rallied train. Fourteen persons were
killed and many injured.