Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-25
Engineer Andrews Went Into
Shell Rock River With His
Locomotive Near Chenille
ALIVE, BUT BADLY INJURED
He Plunged With the Engine OFF the
Bridge, but Came to Land Unaided
While Companions Were Looking
For Him-Brown Jumped Into Rail-
road Iron-WiI Be Brought Home.

AS reliable details of the Central $
wreck on the Shell Rock bridge near
Glenville, Mimi. Thursday morning,
reach here from trainmen who were at
the scene yesterday, it appears that
only the intervention of Providence
saved Eugene c. Andrews the engl-
neer. He stuck to his engine, and with
1t went off the bridge into the river,
suffering from an injured knee cap,
fractured in three places, bad cuts and
gashes about the head and bruises on
the body. Louis S. Brown, the fire.
man, who jumped before the bridge
was reached, and went pitching and
rolling over piles of railroad steel, sus-
tanned fearful gashes about the head,
and bad bruises, but no bones We're
broken.
The wives of both men reached Glen
vile yesterday afternoon, but 1T Will
probably be a week before the doctor
will consent to have Andrews moved.
Brown will be brought home Sunday
or Monday, unless indications of in
ternal injuries become apparent.
Thought He Was Killed.
When the sudden stopping and jolt
ing Of the train told to Conductor Will
son that something had gone amiss.
and the cars had stopped, he came out
of the caboose and ran along the track
to the bridge. In the stream. scarce
ly visible for the clouds of smoke
which rolled upward from it, lay the
big engine, almost entirely subnnerg-
ed in water Across its tank, broken
twisted and splintered, lay the two
box cars. Engineer Andrews was no
where to be seen, and the first thought
was that he must be lying dead among
the twisted rods and battered frame
of the cab, which had been jammed
against the boiler. Its frame was
barely visible thru the gray steam.
which circled upward During this
time Andrews was making his way
shoreward, and he emerged on the bank
close to where Wilson stood, with his
dark red by the blood which covered
his face and head, and went coursing
downward in dark rivulets.
FROST IOnO6 us SAlOs
To his companions Andrews later
said that he did not see the fiagman
until upon him, so sharp was the curve
where he was standing. He at once
applied the break, but the wheels, altho
locked by the force applied, seemed to
his startled senses to slip and skim
over the frost covered rails, on and
on toward the bridge. with increased
speed. Every moment, thinking the
locomotive would stop, SO he might
jump, he waited, but until too late, for
he was on the bridge and. crashing
thru the ties and stringers, fell into
the bed Of the river.
Brown hoped from his side, with
out waiting, and jumped. Piled along
the track were rails and fish plates,
and without stopping to look, he flung
himself into the air. He turned over
in descending, and struck head fore
most, on a pile Of steel. The force
turned him over and he again came
down on his head, cutting and scrap
ing the scalp on both sides.
Steel Gang Responsible.
With the steel gang, which was
working on the bridge, so those who
were there say, lies the responsibility.
The fagman sent back to warn the
approaching trains had gone but seven
telegraph pole lengths away, and was
near the rear Of the train when 1t
stopped. 1t is said that the men on the
bridge went to work before the flag
man was sent out, and while on his
way, met the train.