The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-02-28
FATAL WRECK ON
IOWA RAILROAD
MRS. JOHN RoHAN OF fillmore
cURSHED TO DEATH.
Filler ROLLS INTO RIVER.
Postmaster Busse of Chicago Fatally
Injured in Wreck of Fast
Train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad.


ton coach and a loaded coal car OF
train No 103 on the Chicago, Mil.
waukee &c st. Paul narrow gauge be,
tween Bellevue and Cascade, jumped
the rails at a curve on a trestle over
small stream near Washington
Mills and fell a distance of forty feet,
landing with the coal car on top OF
the coach, in which there were ten
passengers. The coach was com.
pletely wrecked and one passenger
was killed, two fatally injured and
seven seriously injured.
Dead and Injured.
the dead:
MRS. JOHN ROHAN of Fillmore,
Iowa. "
Fatally injured;
Conductor T. d. Martin Of Belle.
vue, Iowa.
Miss Mary Mclaughlin of Bernard,
Iowa.
Seriously injured:
James Fonda. mail clerk, leg brok.
en-, badly cut and bruised.
H. E. Fair of Dubuque, Iowa, badly
cut and bruised.
Mrs. Davids and son OF Cascade,
Iowa, seriously cut and bruised.
Mrs. Rohan was crushed to death.
Conductor Martins back is broken
and he is internally injured.
Miss McLaughlin's back is report
ed broken.
The cause of the wreck is not
known. ...E.... .~
The trestle went down with the
cars but the engine remained on the
track. Physicians from Dubuque, Cas-
cade and Bellevue were hurried to
the scene and the dead and injured
brought mere. Three freight cars and
one coach plunged to the bottom of
the frozen creek.
Pennsylvania Flyer Wrecked.
Johnstown, Pa, Feb. 23.-Ten PEG.
pie are missing, six are fatally hurt,
and score of others seriously injuI.
ed, as the result of the wreck of the
Pennsylvania railroads west bound
Eighteen Hour Flyer" No. 20, at
Mineral Point, eight miles east OF
here early this morning
Postmaster Busse a Victim.
One of the victims is Hon Fred A
Busse, postmaster of Chicago, who is
in a hospital at Altoona and not ex
pected to recover.
Others fatally hurt are John T.
Kline, postmaster of Joliet, ILL.,. F. L.
Brown, of San Francisco; ]. E. w.
Wilson, of Marion, Ind; NJ. w. Rhode,
negro porter, and two unidentified
men.
Cars Rolled Into River.
The three rear sleeping cars went
over an embanltment into the Cone,
maugh river. The track is torn up
for a distance of 500 feet
The curve is one of the worst on
the line and is dreaded by trainmen.
the cause of the wreck is unknown,
but it is said the speeu of the train
was too great in rounding the curve
In leaving the track the train
knocked down the telegraph wires and
the accident was not reported to the
general superintendent offices in
this city until late this morning.
at the point where the accident oc,
Cured the roadbed is only a few feet
above the river. the cars which went
over the embankmelt are lying on
their sides only partly submerged.
All the passengers have been taken
out.
No One Killed.
At noon today it was concluded that
no one was killed outright. The
first report that ten had gone through
the ice is generally discredited. II
is believed they are all safe, having
left the scene in confusion.
Busse May Recover.
Chicago, Feb. pa long distance
telephone message from the Altoona
hospital says Postmaster Busse is not
fatally hurt. His injuries consist OF
a broken arm, an abrasion over the
right eye, lacerated scalp and a
flesh wound in tie thigh.
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