The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-09
THROUGH A BRIDGE
Eight Coaches of Passenger
Train in a Ditch.
Two Persons Killed and Twenty
four Injured.
NEAR MELBOURNE, II
Wreck Is on the Chicago, Mil.
waukee & st. Paul.
Second Engine of Double Header
Jumped the Track.

DeS Moines, Ia, Feb. Eight coach
es of the Overland limited on the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway
which left Chicago last night for the
west crashed through a bridge a mile
and a half west of Melbourne early to-
day. Two persons were killed and "a
injured.
The bridge where the accident occur
red was 100 feet in length and 80 feet
in height. At the time of the accident,
the train. which was a double header,
was running at a high rate of speed.
The second engine jumped the track
just as the bridge was reached and
weakened the timber of the trestle
Both engines managed to pass over, but
eight coaches pitched down through the
bridge carrying the whole structure
with them. The observation car alone
escaped.
Physicians were rushed to the scene
from Perry and Marshalltown, accom-
panied by wreckers. The dead and in
jured were removed as quickly as pos
sible- The injured were placed in the
observation car and taken to Rhodes
where they were given medical treat
ment- Among the injured was J. A
Wagner, of Des Moines, Superintendent
of the Des MoineS Union Railway com
pany.
The Killed.
H. NJ. MARSH, conductor.
c. A. MORRES, brakeman.
Seriously Injured.
F. H. Reid, Perry, hips and legs.
George w. Laroy, baggageman, Chi
cago, leg and shoulder and head.
c. W. Jensen, mail clerk, Cedar
Rapids, breast.
David M. Way, Marion Junction, S.
D., knee crushed, nose broken, teeth
knocked out.
C. S, Lawson, mail clerk. Marion,
or,r oil
D. A. Halligan, Moorland, Ia, back
and kidneys.
Clarence Ongman. Chicago, leg bad
ly bruised.
Anna Disinger. Perry, eye and hand
cut.
Minnie A Taylor, Sheridan, O., cut
about head, side injured.
J. H. Wixel, Chicago. scalp wound,
hand and ankle fractured.
I H. R. Goyke, st. Louis, leg and hips.
Charles Masterson. Boone, Ia, chest.
Edith Winters, Omaha, hips, legs
and back.
Charles E. Clark, Bayard, Ia. leg
Mrs. F. A Smith. Marion, s. D.,
back and stomach.
Chicago. Feb. 9.-General superin-
tendent D. l. Bush, of the Chicago.
Milwaukee & st. Paul road. said:
The wrecked train was the overland
limited No. 1, which left Chicago for
nine coaches and two engines. All but
the head engine and the observation
car are in the ditch. The bridge at
which the wreck occurred was 200 feet
long and 8 feet high and was totally
destroyed Our dispatches do not give
the cause of the wreck.
THE first news was brought by En-
gineer Nicholas on the head engine
who ran his engine to Rhodes, a few
miles west of the accident. Our first
duty is to the injured and we imme-
diately dispatched relief trains with
medical aid. The injured will be. cared
for at Melbourne and Rhodes, the two
points nearest the accident on either
side.
''Our dispatches say there were quite
a number injured, but that reports so
far received are inaccurate. We have
been unable to secure a list of the i'm
jured and dead as yet. This was not a
particularly heavy train and probably
there were few passengers whose homes
are in Chicago or the @ast. The general
patronage of this train is from western
people who have come to Chicago on
business or pleasure and are on their
way home. Denver and Portland are
points served by this train. An accurate
list of the killed and injured will be
made up as soon as it can be obtained