Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-14
AW Full WRECK
SIX MEN ARE DEAD AND OTHERS
MAY DIE AS RESULT OF COL.
LISBON.
ORDERS MIS- A X E N
Two Milwaukee Freight Trains Collide
at 8 O'clock Last Evening-Engines
Demolished and Seventeen Freight
Cars Piled in Confused Mass.

Several dead and others fatally in
jured is the result of disastrous
head end collision which occurred on
the Milwaukee about one and one-half
miles north of South Amana last even
ing at few minutes past o'clock.
Joseph Dusek and George Haynes
and four unknown tramps are dead.
George Kissinger. A. L. Joff, Charley
Bingham and E. G. Seeley are injur-
ed. So far as can be learned no one
whose home is in Ottumwa was in
jured.
The Dead.
JOSEPH DUSEK, Cedar Rapids, fire
man on second section train No. ga.
GEORGE HAYNES, Marion. brake
man.
FOUR UNKNOWN TRAMPS. -,.
The Injured.
A. L. Joff, Marion, engineer second
section, train No. Cd.
e. c. Seeley, fireman on second Sec
ton train No. So.
George Messenger, Cedar Rapids, en-
gineer second section train No. g.
Charley Bingham, brakeman.
Due to Mistake.
The collision is said to be due to
mistake in reading orders on the part
of the crew of the north bound train.
Both trains in the collision were sec
ond sections and they were following
Nos. GO and Ga. The second section OF
No. "a, north bound had orders it is
said to remain on the siding at South
Amana until after the passage of the
second section of No. SO. The train
crew on the north bound train follow
ed their order as if it had been written
Amana instead of South Amana and
started for the next station. They had
gone on about one and one-half miles
beyond South Amana when they were
met by the second section of No. SO
coming SOUTH
Wreck at Curve.
AT the point where the collision oc-
CURED there is heavy grade and deep
cut and in addition a curve which pre-.
vents view down the track for more
than one or two hundred yards No. GO
was coming down grade and it is es-
timated that the train must have been
going at the rate of As miles an hour.
No. 81 was running with light load
ard was probably going up the grade
at about 20 or 25 miles per hour. Be-
cause of the curve and the deep cut it
it is not believed that either of the
crews were able to see the approaching
train for more than five seconds be-
fore the collision.
Terrific Collision.
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point of the grade and cut and the
collision was terrific. The engines
were demolished and the jumping of
the crews was all that saved the four
men from instant death. Nearly all
the cars in both trains were thrown
from the track and those near the
head ends were utterly demolished and
piled together in broken scraps along
with their contents
ottumwa Wrecking Crew..
Wrecking crews were dispatched at
once to the scene of the disaster from
Ottumwa and Cedar Rapids, and the
work of clearing the track and giving
aid to the injured men was begun.
Dead and Injured.
Joe Dusek, of Cedar Rapids, who
was firing on train No. ga, was found
with both legs cut off and he died be-
fore medical assistance could reach
him. a
A. j., Joff, of Marion, engineer on
No. 81 was injured in the left side and
it is believed that he has two ribs
broken
Charley Bingham, one of the head
end brakemen, was terribly scalded,
and there is no hope for his recovery.
George Kssinger, the engineer pull
ing No. SO, was scalded and crushed
and it is believed that he will die.
George Haynes, a brakeman is dead
and it is supposed that the body is
under the wreckage. The bodies of
four tramps, who were stealing their
way on No. "a, were found terribly
mangled and cut to pieces.
Enormous Loss.
The loss to the Milwaukee company
will be something enormous. Aside
from the destruction of the two en-
gines and a large number of box cars
there will be total loss on many
cars of merchandise and heavy dam
age upon practically everything being
carried on the two trains.
The track was blocked and torn up
for several hundred feet. The Mil
waukee passenger No. 9, due in this
city at 1918 o'clock this morning was
sent around by Des Moines and ar
rived over the Rock Island several
hours late. The north bound passen-
ger was sent by the same route.
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