Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-09-12
TWELVE perish IN
RAILROAD WRECK
ROCK ISLAND EXPRESS TRAIN
JUMPS TRACK AND CRASHES
INTO A FREIGHT.
Dozen Others Are Injured-Horribie
Accident at Norris, la.-Smoking
Car Of Passenger 10 TeIescoped and
Utterly Demolished. s...-.. ....~.


Waterloo, Ia., Sept. 7.-Twelve per-
sons were killed and IL others injured
in the wreck Of an express train on
the Rock Island railroad at Norris, Ia.
Friday. The express train, which was
northbound, jumped the track while
going at full speed and collided with
. freight train standing on the siding.
The dead: P. B. Oliver, Waterloo.
a.; Will Goodman, Waterloo, a.;
John N. Watson. Waterloo, a.; G. L..
Landphere, Shell Rock, Ia; w. Ray
Johnson, Dixie, Ia; B. R. Christy.
Minneapolis, Mimi; Lepovan Toja,
Hammond, a.; laborer, name un-
known, Hammond, Ia: w. H. Meyers,
baggageman, Burlington, Ia; three
unknown lien. --~~@---"a~- -.->~-~
The injured: J. A. Newell, Illinois
Central conductor, Waterloo, Ia;
John Shaw, Waterloo, a.; DR.. c. j.
Keefe, Marble Rock, Ia; ]. H. Doug
las, Waterloo, Ia; Thomas Evenson,
Mora, Mimi; O. H. Martin, mail clerk.
West Liberty, Ia; Edward Steppierre,
Minneapolis, Mimi; Trocoin Crismen,
St. Paul, Mimi; H. Mcmahon. fireman,
Cedar Rapids, Ia; Albert Mason, en-
gineer, Cedar Rapids, a.; A. L. Welli-
yer, lineman, Cedar Rapids, Ia; F..
Kinch, engineer, Cedar Rapids, Ia.
Victims in Smoker.
The injured were brought to Water
loo and placed in the Presbyterian
hospital.
Nearly all Of the dead and injured
were in the smoking car, which was
Immediately behind the baggage and
mail cars. The smoking car was
completely demolished, there not be-
ing left one piece of wood large
enough to make a top for an ordinary
kitchen table.
The northbound express was ten
minutes late at Norris siding, which
is small station three miles north of
Cedar Falls, a., and there a south;
bound freight train was awaiting the
express, which came laundering along
at terrific speed in an effort to make
up time.
Crashed Into Freight Train.
Just as the engine of the express
was about to pass the freight engine
the trucks Of the express jumped the
track and the engine crashed with
terrible force into the engine of the
freight, wrecking both engines and
telescoping the baggage and mail
cars and demolishing the smoking
car. The passengers in the two day
coaches following the smoker escaped
with only a violent shaking up.
Rescuers were Immediately at hand
to care for the injured and to take the
dead from among the wreckage.
Dr.. keefe's Heroism.
Sitting in the midst Of the wreck
age was DR.. Charles J. Keefe, who, al
though badly injured, little realized
how seriously he was hurt. With
heroic fortitude, while suffering in
tense pain, he waved the rescuers
aside and directed them to the assist
ance of those whom he thought were
In a more serious condition than him
self, for in front of him and behind
him on all sides were men writing
and grooming in the agony of their sui
ferings.
Physicians and hospital attendants
were hastily taken to Norris on a spe
cial train made up in this city and
pending their arrival, such medical re
lief as the little station afforded wal
given the injured.