Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-14
MANY RAIL
FATALITIES
Two Wrecks in Iowa
and One in West
Virginia.
ELEVEN ARE KILLED
Derai1ed Train Strikes
Bridge Near OF
turnWa.
ELEVEN ARE KILLED


sons We're killed and ten injured in
wreck on the Chicago. Burlington and
Quincy road three miles west of Abba.
Ia The weSt-bOund passenger train
was in some manner deTailed while
running on to the Cedar Creek bridge,
and five cars were wrecked by col
lision with the steel Orders of the
bridge. The wreckage Immediately
took fire and several of the victims
were badly burned. The dead are:
Mrs. w. L Mitchen, Abba. Ia: Mil
dred NIitchen. years old. burned to
death; Thomas Peatty. killed in wreck
of smoking car; - Franklin, address
unknOwn; unknown man. Beatty,
Franklin and the unknown man were
Iaborers.
List of the Injured,
The injured are: w. Z. Martin,
Chicago, leg sprained; c. +. Blair. La
moni. Ia. hip injured; Robert Fer
guson. Mitchell. Neb., leg broken; Mrs.
j. II. Robinson. Dttumwa, back
sprained: f. T. Sect. Osceola. Ia;
three ribs broken: T. T. Browning.
Yates Center. Kan. hip injured; Cab
riel Allen. Chicago. waiter dining car:
r. Price. Chicago. cook dining car;
William Branch Chicago, cook dining
car: s. T. Williams. Chicago. porter
None of the injured will die.
The Accident "a Mystery
Just what caused the accident is a
uyStery. As soon d the engineer no
ticed there was something wrong he
applied the air-brakes. but was una
BILE to stop the train Five cars were
completely burned aud the remaining
coaches badly damaged. The work of
rescue was carried on with difficulty,
as the cars took fire Immediately after
the accident. and the bridge is a high
one The injured were taken to Abba
and Ottumwa.
FrightfuI Fate eff the Child.
Mildred NIitchen. the little 3-year-Old
child of Mrs. w. f. Mitchen. was hung
10 one of the bridge Orders. and
burned to- death before the eyes Of the
uniniured passengers and trainmen.
When the train was derailed Just be-
fore reaching the bridge the sides of
the cars struck the bridge and were
torn out. The live Goals from the
stove were scattereA throughout the
cars. The Mitchen child fell through
the bottom of the cal its clothes catch
ing to the girder. where it cried loudly
for its mother, VIII chad been instantly
killed in the wreck.
Three Dead and Five Injured.
Des MOines, Ia. Dec. IA. - Three
trainmen were killed and five injured
In a freight collisions On the Chicago.
Milwaukee and St Paul road. near
Abel. Ia \ dOuble-header west-bound
and an extra freight east-bound came
together in deep cut on Il sharp
curve Three engines and fourteen
cars were entirely demolished. The
dead are: Frank Finnicum (engineer).
Oscar Dyer fireman.. and Walter
Ward (engineerl. all of Des Moincs.
The injured are: Conductor Flynn,
Brakeman Held. and Brakeman II. NJ.
Bellman. all seriously: Brakeman
Fields and Engineer Chambers.
COIlided alta Siding.
Wheeling. w. VA Dec. 14-North-
bound passenger train known as the
Pittsburg and Kenova flyer, on the
Panhandle railroad. coliided head-On
with sOuth-bound cattle train at
NTieHONd. II lew HltieS dbONe iuIS city.
The dead are: Engineer Thomas Muir
ray. of the passenger train and Fire
man James Lanahan of the stock
train-both of Steubenvllle. The in
iured: Frank Mckay. bagga gemaster.
Wheeling. leg broken; Detective Will
lam Johnson, Pittsburg. skull frac-
tured: Trainman Frank Cartwright,
Wheeling. leg broken. The passenger
train was running fast to make up lost
time and met the freight when it was
trying to make sizing.
Engineer Fatally Injured.
Huntington. W. Va. Dec. 1.-THE |
third section of Chesapeake and |
Ohio freight No. "A ran into the rear
OF a second section near Lewis Sta
ton. Engineer William Hamilton of |
Russell and Brakeman Ed Hamilton, |
of Huntington We're dangerously in
jured.