Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-05
SEVEN KILLED N
G. n. ". WRECK
Train Loaded With Miners Goes
Over Embankment Near
Des Moines
A DOZEN. OR MORE INJURED
A DOZEN OR MORE INJURED
Bodies Crushed Under Cars and Their
Loads-Wreckase Takes Fire and
Work of Rescue is Prosecuted With
DifficuIty-severaI of the Injured,
Who Are Miners, May. Die.
Special to Times-Republican

Special to Republican.
Des Moines, Feb. 5.-The worst
wreck that ever occurred near Des
Moines may result in ten or more
deaths. Seven were killed almost in
stantly, the bodies of others are sought,
and a dozen others were injured, some
of whom may not recover.
The catastrophe was the result OF a
wreck OF a train on the Northwestern
on the northern outskirts Of the city,
and the killed and injured, with two
exceptions, were miners, returning
from their employment at the Bloom
field mines.
coal train loaded with coal and
crowded with miners broke in two. and
a dozen cars were piled in the ditch,
together with a caboose, in which were
a number of miners and two school
teachers
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embankment twelve feet in height the
stove in the caboose turned over and
set fire. to the shattered wood and
twisted iron. AS the fire ate Its way
thru the wreckage the cries of those
fastened beneath the broken cars added
a horror to the scene and those who es-
capped serious injury began tearing the
wreckage away from the bodies Of the
living and dead
Every effort was made to save the
lives of the imprisoned miners and as
the uninjured ones worked with might
and main, the resounding crash of the
wreck brought a score or more of far
mers living in the vicinity to the scene.
who worked with might and main and
carried away the dead and injured in
wagons.
The Dead.
Carl Anderson, may live at SAB East
Seventh street.
Ole Anderson, 712 Southeast Ninth
street.
S. l.. Drew, los East Grand avenue.
Peter EXner.
Andrew Lundquist, Fourth and Scott
streets.
Peter Pilstrom, 631 East Grand ave-
nue..
Man believed to be Albert Olson.
The Injured.
Peter Swanson, head injured.
Arthur Johnson, arm and hip
(, C. j. Carlson, back and head injured.
Carl Carlson, back sprained.
Gust Carlson, leg broken.
rJn,Iap conductor haQlv IN.
jured.
Jonas Leas, badly bruised.
Orvid Haglof, shoulders broken and
delirious.
Otto johnson, badly bruised.
School Teachers Are Injured.
Miss Jean Hosburg and Miss Blanche
Roser both of whom were in the ca
boose and were badly burned, are
school teachers at Marquisville and re-
turn every evening to their home OH
this coal train. They We're in the ca
boose next to the stove and their pite-
GUS cries as their flesh was scared by
the red hot stove, redoubled the ener-
gies of the heoric men who We're fight
ing for the lives of the imprisoned pas
sengers.
lie DOuleS Ol JoAii Ai'SAStAAt = ~.
Exner. Carl Larson, and Ole Anderson
were dug out of the wreckage and laid
along the bank.
The body of miner, supposed to be
Albert Olson, was discovered half bur-
led under car of coal with the life
crushed out of him. He was dead be-
fore assistance reached him.
Samuel L. Drew died at the home of
Mrs. Dicks on East Fourteenth street
about an hour after his body was re-
covered.
Andrew Lundquist died while in the
elevator at Mercy hospital, where he
had been taken with all possible speed.
Train at High Speed.
The accident occurred at the point
where the Northwestern right of way
crosses the north corporation limits OF
Des Moines. 1t is down grade and the
train was running about twenty-five
miles an hour. The front part of the
train after breaking in two remained
on the track and went fully half a
mile toward the town before it was
stopped. Not truck of the rear sec
ton was left on the track. Cars were
piled on top of each other in q promis-
cuous mess, and on top of other cars
lay the caboose, filled with suffering
humanity and blazing freely with fire
which terrified the imprisoned ones
and no doubt dealt death to several of
those whose bodies We're found in the
wreckage.a
Aided only by the light from the
burning caboose and the feeble. glim-
mer of the score of lanterns which were
brought to the scene, the rescuers tore
away burning timbers to reach the side
of the suffering.
Miss Horsburg and Miss Roser were
rescued early and taken to the home OF
Mrs Duffy on the Dicks farm, a few
hundred feet from the wreck. There a
corps of physicians, headed by Dr. j.
A. Miller, city physician, cared for their
injuries and later they were taken to
their homes.
The dead and injured We're placed on
the bank in rows, while John lines, a
farm laborer employed by Mrs. Dicks,
on whose farm the wreck occurred.
loaded the injured miners into bob
sled and hurried them to the Dicks
home.
The score or more We're treated by
the physicians mustered by the call for
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