Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-29

'DiiOl, NGl.. -hdINI4 d 1NooAN
OF the derailment of the Southern Pa
cific Sunset express in East Cotton late.
yesterday afternoon % dead bodies lie
today in the local undertaking estab-
| lishments. eight terribly injured are in
the Cotton hospital, and more than so
others whose hurts are less serious
| have been taken TO Los Angeles.
List of Dead.
! ALBERT W. SHE, mail clerk, Los
Angeles.
GEORGE X. SHARPE, Sacramento,
| Cal
Twenty-one Italians, including one
woman. on way to San Francisco.
struck Open switch.
Cotton. Cal. March 29.-Twenty-eight
persons We're killed and 100 were in
IjuTed yesterday afternoon one mile
east of here when a Southern Pacific
express train of II coaches from New
! Orleans. running mile a minute,
| struck an open switch and was de-
rallied
The forward cars of the train were
crushed to pieces by the heavy Pull
mans behind. and their occupants We're
terribly mangled The smoker was
, filled with Italian workmen and il was
here that most of the fatalities oc-
CURED.
Rush To Give Aid.
p Immediately after the disaster all the
r available doctors and nurses of this
city We're hurried to the scene, and
relief trains were started from Los An
5 geles. GO miles away. Vehicles of all
- kinds were pressed into service to car
ry the wounded to the hospital here
and the dead to the morgue. In a short
time the hospital was crowded to over
e flowing with victims. and many were
cared for in private houses.
-Four of the cars were smashed. Bag
gage and mail We're scattered about
FROM the two forward coaches. and in
the smoker and first day coach the
passengers were killed or injured. The
: Italian victims were on their way from
New Orleans 10 San Francisco. where
3 they We're to work as laborers.
-Four Coaches Undamaged
The four rear coaches remained on
> the track, and those of the Pullmans.
which were derailed, suffered but lit
. tie damage
Il The train, which was an unusually
: large one was crowded. There were
90 in the Pullman cars alone, and only
y two of these were hurt. The day
N coaches. which were of lighter con-
struction. were crowded The train
was nearly IL hours late. and was run
ming at top speed, in an effort to make
- up for lost time, when the wreck oc-
Cured.
- The Florence Roberts Theatrical
company occupied one coach, which
- was hurled from the track and both
ends of it crushed in But two mem
- bers of Miss Roberts company out OF
III total of % were injured Miss Rob
- erts herself escaped entirely unhurt
The escape from death of the occu
" pants of this car was remarkable, con
sidering the manner in which the coach
was splintered and torn to pieces. The
~ men and women were hurled from one
in end of the car to the other.
nd Wreck in Oklahoma.
IS Oklahoma City. Okla. March 20
re- Choctaw. Oklahoma & Gulf passengp
train, Memphis for Amarillo. drawn b,
TWO engines was partially derailed a
r Council. eight miles west of Oklahom
p City today Both engines were badl
~ wrecked. and the mail and baggag
cars overturned, but the other cars re
mained on the track. One engineer an
:" an unknown negro were killed, a firt
man fatally injured, and porter ser
ously hurt. Seven passengers sustain
ed severe bruises and cuts, but n
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