The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-02-07
SEVEN KILLED IN
RAILROAD WRECK
DIES MONIES MINERS MEET
DEATH ON WORK TRAIN.
FIRE ADDS TO TIE HORROR.
A Northwestern Train Is Ditehed
Near City Limits and Passengers
Are Buried Under Coal
and Wreckage.
FIRE ADDS TO TIE HORROR.

Des Moi1es, Feb. 5.--Seven killed
two more missing and thought to be
dead, several injured towering be-
tween life and death, and ten or
more seriously hurt was the record of
the worst wreck in the history of the
Des Moines division of the Chicago
& Northwestern, which occurred at
$50 o'clock last night at the north
edge of the city limits.
A coal train loaded with coal and
crowded with miners from the Bloom
field mine broke in two and dozen
cars were piled in the ditch, together
with caboose, in which were i'm.
prisoned Conductor Harlan, Brakeman
Herbert Hudson and two school
teachers.
AS the train went over and down
an embankment twelve feet in height,
the stove in the caboose turned over
and set fire to the mass of shattered
wood and twisted iron. AS the fire
ate its way through the wreckage, the
cries of those fastened beneath the
broken cars added a horror to the
scene and those who escaped serious
injury began tearing the wreckage
away from the bodies of the living
and the dead.
Every effort was made to save the
lives of the imprisoned miners and
while the uninjured ones worked with
might and main, the resounding
crash of the wreck had brought a
score or more of farmers living in the
vicinity to the scene, who worked
with might and main and carried
away the dead and injured il wagons.
Buried Under Debris.
All of the men killed were miners
employed by the Bloomfield Mining
company. They have ridden to the
city every evening ON this coal train,
aad had just quit work at the mine
shortly before the train started. Some
of the men were crowded into the ca.
4 boose and others were scattered all
over the cars which were wrecked
They were absolutely helpless and
when the train broke ana the cars
rolled over the embankment, the boil
les of the unfortunate men went hurt
ling through the air only to fall on
i the frozen ground, where the huge
cars dumped tons of coal upon them
and mashed their bodies with the ter
rife weight. All those killed were
crushed to death.
Miss Jean Hosburg and Mis-;
Blanche Roser, both of whom were
in the caboose and were badly burned
are school teachers at Marquisville
and return every evening to theil
home on this coal train. They were
in the caboose next. to the stove and
their piteous cries as their flesh was
scared by the red hot stove redoubled
1 the energies of the heroic men who
wre fighting for the lives of the i'm
prisoned passengers.
The Dead.
CARL ANDERSON. single crushed
| OLAF ANDERSON. mine engineer
married; crushed.
/ OLE ANDERSON, crushed under
| coal.
PETER AXNER, single; found
crushed.
SAM L. DREW, married; died after
being carried to home OF Mrs. E. F
Dicks.
i ANDREW LUNDQUIST, single
| iaA tn al ~
Mercy hospital.
PETER PILSTROM, found crushed
l The Injured.
Olaf Leef, skull badly fractured face
crushed, underwent trepnining opera
ton; will probably die.
Arvid Haglof, skull fractured, shout
der broken; will probably die.
| Gustav Carlson, leg crusheu, ampu
tated; may die.
Arthur Juhlstrom, skull fractured
trephined; condition serious.
| C. ]. Carlson, multiple bruises, con
dition serious.
Miss Jean Horsburg, bruised ant
badly burned; condition serious.
Miss Blanche Roser, burned and cut
condition not serious.
Charles Carlson, fractured foot
slight bruises.
Peter Swanson, scalp wound ant
bruises.
Otto Johnson, hip bruised, hant
injured, face slightly cut.
Herbert Hudson, brakeman, bruised
A. Harlan, conductor, burned an,
! | bruised