Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-25
Chicago Great Western Fast
Train Wrecked Near Glad
brook---No One Killed
SEVERAL SUSTAIN INJURIES
Two MarshaIItown People Among the
Injured, and Several Passengers on
Train-Tank Jumped the Track and
Four Coaches Overturned After Pas
sing Over Bridge on the Ties.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Giladbrook, June 25.--The Chicago
Great Western Twin City and Chicago
special, No. 6, was wrecked at about
$3.50 this morning at a point one and
one-half miles south of this place. For
tunately no one was killed, and it Is
not believed any were fatally injured.-
-Four coaches of the train lie on their
side in the ditch. and by good fortune
escaped tumbling down into a creek
bed. The entire train passed over
bridge on the ties and the cars top
pied over just after passing the bridge
The injured:
Mrs. III. A. Drury, St Paul, side hurt
and injured internally; quite serious.
Mrs. c. p. Roe, New Sharon; badly
bruised and cash back Of the head;
not considered serious.
Mrs. w. III. Matthews, Marshalltown,
cut right side head, back hurt; may be
serious.
Charles w. Hughes, Marshalltown.
badly scraped across the breast, and
bruised; not serious.
Fully fifty passengers were on the
train at the time Of the accident,
and at the speed the train was rum
ming their escape appears miraculous.
The train was late, and was running
fully fifty miles an hour to make up
the lost time. The failure of the tank
trucks to keep the rails caused the
accident. The train was approaching
bridge that spans small creek, and
for over forty rods the derailed tank
and cars that followed it rode the ties.
This distance included the length Of
the bridge, and the four coaches tipped
over just after the bridge was
crossed. Had the cars toppled mo-
ment sooner they would have been pre-
cipitated down into the creek bed sew
eral feet below. Between forty and
fifty rods of track are torn up and in
some places the ties are cut entirely in
two. On the bridge the ties are cut
fully half in two. The cars were not
badly damaged.
The injured We're cared for until
doctors could be secured in one Of the
sleepers. 1t is not known as yet just
how badly Mrs. Drury and Mrs. Mat
thews are hurt, but it is thought the
condition of neither will prove dan
gerous.
Two coaches containing passengers
were sent south to Marshalltown about
noon. and from there the train will de-
tour this afternoon to this place via the
Northwestern and Tama.
Mrs. w. H Matthews, the Marshall-
town woman who is among the injured,
resides at 1908 Summit street, and iss
the wife of a pattern maker In the en-
ploy of A. E. Shorthill & Co. She was
on her way to Mabel, Mimi, where she
was being summoned by a telegram
announcing that her father, "A. r. Girls
y old, was dying. c. w. Hughes, wife
and daughter Maxine were on their
way to Minneapolis, where they are to
spend the summer. Among other Mar
shalltown passengers on the train
were Warren Howard 502 North Cen
ter street; H. M. Duke, 10 East Grant
street, a travelling salesman in the en-
ploy of Let's, Fletcher Company, and
d. D. Neblet SIT North Center street,
who travels for Peet Bros, wholesale
soap, Kansas City Harry Miller, Of
Chicago, son Of Mr. and Mrs w. A.
Miller, 416 North Fourth street, who
travels for Chicago house and was
here to spend Sunday with his parents,
was also a passenger on the train,
bound for Morrison. The train was
forty minutes late of this point, leav-
ing this morning at $40.