Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-09-13
AWFUL PLUNGE
THROUGH BRIDGE
THE STRUCTURE FALLS WHILE
TRAIN Is PASSING OVER IT.
SEVEN PERSONS ARE KILLED
Thirty-Five Injured-Disaster oc-
ours in South Carolina-one Life
Lost in Illinois and Two in
Alabama Wrecks.

No. Al on the SeabOard Air Line rail-
road, consisting of an express car, a
mail car, two day coaches and Pull
man sleeper, was derailed at trestle
just south of the Catawba river south
Carolina, and % miles southwest Of
Monroe, N. c., followed by the wreck Of
light engine and caboose, resulting in
the death of four persons and the injur-
ing of IS others. The killed are: Engi-
neer E. Y Barksdale, Abbeville, S. c.;
Fireman Ed Roberts( colored), Atlanta,
Ca; Mrs. Black; unknown woman.
The train had crossed bridge over
the Catawba river and was on trestle
when the trestle fell in. The train, with
the exception of the Pullman car, fell Is
feet to the ground. A light freight, fol-
lowing close behind the passenger train,
struck the Pullman, and all fell over
onto the wreck, the engine of the freight
and box cars piling up on the Pullman.
In its downward rush the train carried
away all telegraph wires. Help was i'm
mediately sent to the scene.
The superintendent Office at Allan
ia, Ca, has received information of the
discovery of evidence that the joints in
the track were tempered with, causing
the wreck.
Track Tempered With.
It is believed that joints in the track
had been tempered with and that this
caused the wreck The length Of the
trestle is not known, but it is stated
that about go feet of it was carried away.
The locomotive had crossed the place
In the track where it was subsequently
discovered, according to report from
an officer of the road, that some person
had loosened the rail connections The
train broke in two. Part of the train
toppled over on the embankment south
Of the trestle, while the rest of the train
appears to have gone through the trestle
to the new ground about 20 feet below.
This was followed by the light engine
following which fell through the broken
trestle.
Two Killed.
Birmingham, Ala, Sept. 10.-Two
men were killed and another seriously
injured in a wreck on the Southern
railway between Dogwood and Wilton
on the Birmingham and Selma divi-
sion Friday afternoon. The dead are:
w. H. Cherry, engineer, and Will Ivey,
negro brakeman. The train was run
ming 30 miles an hour when the engine
jumped the track and struck the CROSS
ties, turning completely over, crushing
the engineer beneath it. Several other
employees Of the road are said to have
been bruised, but not seriously hurt
Fatal Head-On Collision.
Romeo, ILL.,, Sept 1O.-In hsad-on
collision Friday between two extra
freight trains on the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe railroad here, because of
the dense fog Of the early morning, one
man was killed and two others severely
injured. The cars of the long west
bound train were piled upon the track
and the tender of the engine was torn
from its couplings and hurled off the
roadbed. The engine was practically
demolished.
The engineers of the trains were I'M
able to see the danger signal at the
Romeo station, it Is asserted, because Of
the fog, and could not stop in time tc
avert the collision.
The dead: Lee CANNED, brakeman,
caught between tender and caboose,
crushed to death.
The injured: Engineer Edward Nc
Cornell, cut and body severely bruised;
Conductor Thomas Burns body bruised
and cut about head.
Disaster in Indiana.
South Bend, Sept. 1O.-The Grand
Trunk special train carrying officials
OF the Lehigh Valley railway struck
the Oliver hotel omnibus, containing
seven men, Friday night. The follow
ing were injured: Morris Carroll.
Brooklyn, N. y; Harvey Wallace, Chi
cago; L. D. Green, Hopkinsville, KY;
H. L. Drake, Indianapolis; Solomon
Mincer, Chicago. Carroll is perhaps
fatally injured. but the others Will re-
cover.