The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-12
ROCK. ISLAND EXPRESS TRAIN
CRASHES INTO FREIGHT.
DOZEN OTHERS ARE INJURED.
Horrible Accident at Norris, Iowa
Smoking Car Of Passenger Is
Telescoped and Utterly
Demolished.

Vi The HJuFeu uleu ~ lie HOSpltdi lat
er making the total dead fourteen.
The wreck was due to a f1ange of
the tender breaking, the baggage and
mail cars behind 1t telescoping the
smoker and chair car. and grinding
the former to small bits.
The Dead.
H. I. MYRON,t Waterloo, mechanic
on way to Greene.
w. ]. LANPHERE, farmer, Shell
Rock.
TWO ITALIANS enroute to st. Paul
from Hammond, Ind.
UNKNOWN MAN, initials r. H. T.
embroidered on clothing; postal card
on person addressed to Lena Hager,
Hamilton, Ill.
UNKNOWN MAN; bank book with
name of Mrs. Henry Coleman, Ell Reno,
Oklahoma.
JOHN WATSON, Waterloo, travel.
ing salesman.
WILL GOODWIN, Waterloo
b. r. CHRISTIE, Minneapolis
b. B. OLIVER, Waterloo, travelling
salesman for the Nauman Co., Water
loo.
RAYMOND JOHNSON, Waterloo.
]. H. DOUGLAS, farmer near Ray
mond, aged 81 years; died at hospital.
w. H. MYERS, baggageman, Bur
lington, Ia; arm and ribs broker, chest
crushed; died on the way to hospital.
JOSEPH NEWELL, Waterloo.
The Injured.
John Shaw, Waterloo, right leg CASH
ed, internally injured.
DR.. C. ]. O'Keefe, Marble Rock,right
leg torn off and otherwise injured.
Thomas w. Evenson. Mora, Mimi,
right leg broken, hand crushed.
o. H. Martin, West Liberty, postal
clerk, left arm broken and otherwise
hurt.
G. H. Pendleton, West Liberty, pos
tai clerk, right arm torn, and lacerat-
ed face and head.
]. d. Jackson, Albert Lea, postal
clerk. badly cut and bruised.
Edward Stephiere, Minneapolis Min,
nesota.
Trocien Crisen, St. Paul, Mimi.
II. Mcmahon, fireman, Cedar Rap
ids.
Albert Mason, engineer, Cedar Rap
ids.
j. Kinch, engineer, Cedar Rapids.
Victims in Smoker.
The injured We're brought to Wa
terloo and placed in the Presbyterian
hospital.
Nearly all of the dead and injured
were in the smoking car, which was
Immediately behind the baggage and
mail cars. The smoking car was
completely demolished, there not be-
ing left one piece of wood large
enough to make top for an ordinary
kitchen table.
The northbound express was ten
minutes late at Norris siding, which
Is small station three miles north of
Cedar Falls, Ia, and there a south.
bound freight train was await
Ing the express, which came thunder
ing along at terrific speed in an
eHOrt 10 make up time.
Crashed Into Freight Train.
Just as the engine Of the express
was about to pass the freight engine
the trucks Of the express jumped the
track and the engine crashed with
terrible force into the engine of the
freight. wreeking both engines and
telescoping the baggage and mail
cars and demolishing the smoking
car. The passengers In the two day
coaches following the smoker escaped
with only violent shaking up.
Rescuers were Immediately at hand
to care for the injured and to take the
dead from among the wreckage.
DR.. keefe's Herolsm.
Sitting In the midst of the wreckage
was DR.. Charles ]. Keefe, who, al
though badly injured, little realized
how seriously he was hurt. with
heroic fortitude, while suffering In
tense pain, he waved the reseuers
aside and directed them to the assist.
ance Of those Whom he thought were
in more serious condition than him.
self, for In front of him and behind
him on all sides were men writing
and groaning In the agony of their
sufferings.
Physicians and hospital attendants
were hastily taken to Norris on a spe-
cial train made up In this city and.
pending their arrival. such medical re.
lief as the little station afforded was
given the injured.
Scenes at the Wreck.
OF nineteen persons in the smoker
only eight escaped alive, and only two,
A, d. Welliver of Cedar Rapids and
George Cameron, agent of the Brown
News company, escaped uninjured.
The three cars which left the track
were reduced to a pile of splintered
timber and twisted steel, in which five
bodies were found in heap. Under
them lay Welliyer absolutely unin.
jured beyond a few slight bruises.
News Agent Cameron escaped unin-
jured through the ventilator in the roof
of the coach. How he got out he does
not know.
Rescue workers We're many times
forced to avert their eyes as the re-