Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-06
Passengers in Smoking Car
Slaughtered, Eleven Being
Killed Outright
KILLED AND lNJuRlD ALL MEN
Smoking Car, Baggage and Mail Cars
Completely Tele.copeeI--Train Was
Thru One Bound for MinneapoIis-
Dead and Injured Taken to Waterloo
and Cedar FaIIs-Ensine Men Es-
cape by Jumping.
snecial 70 rimes-Republican.

waterloo. Sept. s.-Eleven dead and
eight seriously injured as the toll col
lected by the speed mania of the rail-
roads. The Rock Island railway is re-
eponsible for the latest disaster.
While a fast northboulld passenger
train was speeding northward from
this city this forenoon, the engine left
the track on a sharp curve, plunged
along the ties for several hundred feet
and then crashed into freight stands
ing on siding. Three cars were COM
pletely telescoped by the collision. the
smoking car being included.
The disaster occurred at Norris Sid
ing, a passing tracy three miles north
of Cedar Falls. The northbound pas
J senger train on the Rock Island for
kfinneap polls left here all $40, several
minutes late. In an effort to make up
the lost time the train was travelling
at a high rate Of speed when the sid
ing was reached. Just this side of the
passing track Is a sharp curve, and 1t
was while rounding this that the trucks
of the engine left the rails. Speeding
over the ties for 200 feet the engine
crashed into a freight train standing
on the passing track.
The force of the collision was such
that the mail car, the baggage car
following, and the smoking car were
III, i;,,er
wood.
Victims ia the Smoker.
The smoking car contained nineteen
men, and every one in this car was
either killed or seriously injured. They
were caught in the wreckage, and
crushed and MANNED.
There is no station or town at the
siding, and no aid was at hand until
neighboring farmers came to the
scene and lent assistance to the fright
ened and bruised passengers who had
escaped injury. Word was sent to Ce-
dar Falls, and from there physicians
were summoned from Waterloo. They
were hurried to the scene by special
train and by automobiles from both
waterloo and Cedar Falls but some
time ensued before word was sent to
the two citles.l
Dead and Injured Cared For.
The relief rain reached Waterloo at
noon, bearing the dead and injured,
some of whom were cared for here and
at Cedar Falls.
Up to this hour 1t has been impos-
sible to obtain a list of those killed and
injured and those seriously hurt.
The engineer and fireman both
Jumped before the train hit the freight
and escaped with only slight bruises.
The engine was completely demolished.
Women Escape.
Owing to the fact that the coaches
and sleepers were not badly wrecked
none Of the women passengers on
board was injured. Except from slight
bruises. the passengers on the coaches
ana SleeperS were not injured.
Dead Not All Identified.
Delay in identifying the dead was
caused by the absence Of the coroner
from the city. He did not arrive until
late this afternoon, and the company
officials would not permit any one to
view the bodies until the coroner took
charge Many of the dead are SO bad
ly mangled that Identification will no3
be possible until the papers in their
pockets are examined
Among the known dead SO far identi-
fed are the following
j. D. Lanphere, farmer, of Shell
Rock.
William Smith, baggageman, of West
Liberty.
B b cliber, cashier cf the Nauman
Company Of waterloo.