Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-12-16
VICTIMS NUMBER FIFTEEN,
Fear Il! Train Wrecks in Iowa and
West Virginia.
MANY ARE BADLY INJURED,
Little Child Is Burned to Crisp Before
Eyes of Terrified Passengers-Suf-
fer Greatly from Cod.

gers were crenlated and ten were in
jured i'll a wreck at 9:15 o'clock yester-
day morning on the Chicago, Burlington
Il Quincy railroad, three miles west of
Abba. The west-bound passenger train
was derailed while running upon the
Cedar creek bridge and five cars were
wrecked by q collision with the steel
Orders Of the bridge. The wreckage i'm.
mediately took fire. The dead:
MITCIIEN, MILDRED. Alba Ia, burned
to death
MITCHEN, MRS. w T.. Abba, Ia. killed
III collision and body burned.
BEATTY. THOMAS. killed in wreck of
smoking car and burned.
-, FRANKLIN. unknown man.
The injured
W. T. Martin, Chicago; leg spraincd.
G. r. Blair, Lamont. Ia: hip injured.
Robert Ferguson, Mitchell, Neb.; leg
Mrs J. II. Robinson ottumwa, Ia back
sprained
f. T. Scott, Osceoa Ia. three ribs brok-
+ T. Browning, Yates Center Kas; hip
Gabriel Allen Chicago: waiter dining car
Wli na, Branch. Chicago: cook dining
IL. rice Chicago; cook dining car.
- i. NllllaniS. Chicago; porter.
See Baby Burn to Death.
Mildred Mitchen. the 3-year-old child
oil MIS-. W. E. Mitchen was hung TO
one or the bridge Orders and burned to
death before the eyes of the uniniured
passengers and trainmen. When the
Sldes or the ears struck the bridge they
were torn out and live Goals from the
stoves were scattered throughout The
ears. The Mitchen child fell through the
bottom OF one carouts clothes catching
Cyr.tn yl,n,.n i
its mother. who lhRp6Sen instantly Killed.
The ears and the hfiige in few seconds
were a mass of names and the child
could not be reS0&19
None of the injured will die. Just
what caused the accident is mystery
AS soon as the engineer noticed something
was wrong he applied the airbrakes, but
was unable to stop the train. Five ears
were burned and the remaining coaches
badly damaged
The work of rescue was carried on with
difficulty because of the fire and the fact
that the bridge is high one. The in.
Jured were taken to Abba and Ottumwa
The train was in charge Of Conductor
k. w. Robinson and Engineer William
Wallace
Three Slain in Milwaukee Wreck
Des MoireS. Ia. Dec. 14.-Three train
men were killed and five injured IN a
'
Chicago, Milwaukee Il ST. Paul road near
Adel. A westbound double-header and an
extra eastbound freight came together in
a deep cut on sharp curve. Three en-,
glEes and fourteen cars We're demolished.
The dead
FJNNICUM. FRANK. engineer, Dcs
MoneS.
DYRE. OSCAR fireman, Des Moincs.
WARD. WALTER. engineer. Dcs Moincs.
The injured:
Conductor Flynn, of the double header;
serious
Brakeman Bell, of the doublc-header;
serious.
Brakeman Fields. Of the extra
Engineer Chambers. of the extra.
H. NJ. Bellman, brakeman of the extra.
Five Killed in B. & O. Wreck.
Piedmont. w. Va. Dee. l4.-Fiye men
were killed and several severely injured
by the overturning Of two engines at
tached to a heavy Baltimore & Ohio
freight train on the ''seventeen-Inile
grade" yesterday near this city. The
dead
ERWIN, ERNEST D.. engineer, IS years
ERWIN. EMERY, engineer, sc years old
of Tunnellton. W. Va.
NINE, WALTER T.. fireman, 50 years old.
Terra Alta. w. Va.
CARTER. J. V. fireman. % years old.
North Carolina: boarded in Cumberland
HAYS. JOHN. brakeman, % years old.
Staunton, Va.
While descending the seventeen-mile
grade the train left the track The en-
glnes and nearly all of the twenty-four
loaded cars tumblcd into deep rayine.
carrying the trainmen with them. The
tracks were torn up for nearly 400 yards.
Wreck on the Panhandle.
Wheeling, w. Va. Dec IA north
bound passenger train OF the Panhandle
railroad collided head-on with a south
bound cattle train at Glenova few
miles above this city. at 10 o'clock Satur-
day night. The dead:
| MURRAY, THOMAS, engineer of the pas
senger train; lived at Steubenyile
! IANAHAN, JAMES, fireman OF the stock
train; Steubenvile.
The injured:
Frank Mckay, baggagemastcr, Wheeling;
: leg broken.
William Johnson, detective. pittsburg;
skull fractured.
Frank Cartwright, Wheeling: leg broken
The passenger train was running fast
to make up lost time and met the freight
train when it was trying to make sid
ing. Both trains were completely
wrecked