Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-09-07
Big Casualty List in the
Head0n Collision at
Norris, Iowa.
OTHERS NEAR DEATH
korthbOund Express Leaves
Rails and Crashes Into a
Sldetracked Freight Train.

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Waterloo. Iowa, Sept. Three more
of the injured in the wreck of the Rock
Island express train yesterday at Nor
ris died here today. This raises the
death list to H.
Waterloo, Iowa, Sept. 7.-WhiIe
travelling top speed a northbouni
express on the Rock Island railway
Jumped the track near Norris ycster-
day afternoon and crashed into a side
tracked freight, killing II passengers
and seriously injuring as many more.
All the dead and nearly all the in.
Jured were occupants of the smoking
car, which was smashed to kindlin :
wood.
The Dead.
CfiRlSTY, B. r.. Minneapolis. MINI.
OLIVER, p. B., Waterloo. Iowa.
GOODMAN. WILL, Waterloo, Iowa.
JOHNSON, W. RAY, Dixie. Iowa.
LANDPHERE, C. L., Shell Rock,
Iowa.
MEYERS, w. H., baggageman, Bur
lington, Iowa; died on way to hospital.
TOJA. LEPOVAN, hammond, Ind.
WATSON, JOHN NJ, Waterloo
Iowa.
FOUR UNIDENTIFIED MEN.
The Wounded.
TrocCoin Cristen. ST. Paul. Mimi.
j. III. Douglas, Waterloo, Iowa.
Thomas Evenson, Mora. Mimi
F. kinCh, engineer, Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Albert Mason, engineer, Cedar Raj
ids, Iowa.
o. H. Martin, mail clerk, West Lib
erty, Iowa.
H. Mcmahon. fireman, Cedar Rapids
Iowa.
J. A. Newell, Illinois Central con
ductor. Waterloo, la.
John Shaw. Waterloo. Iowa
DIR. c. J. OKeefe, Marble RocE
Iowa.
Edward Steppierre, Minneapolis
MINI.
A. L. Welliver, lineman. Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa.
Some Not Identified.
OF the dead. who have not beer
identified one was wearing a higi
school pin bearing the letters III. II
S." and i'll pocket was found a tick
from Lake street, Chicago. He is b
lieved to be Ernest LovejOy of Far
bault Mimi.
Another of the unidentified dead cal
ried bank book of the National ban
at Ell Reno, Okla. 1t contains tn
name Mrs Henry Coleman. Anotho
had two souvenir postals of Ced
Rapids, addressed to Misses France
Spence and Lima Payes at Hamilton
Ill.
Express Going at High Speed.
The northbound express was :,
minutes late at Norris siding, a sma
station three miles north of Ccd1
Falls, Iowa, and there a southboun
freight train was awaiting the expires
which came laundering along at a te
rife speed i'll an effort to make u
time. Just as the engine of the e
press was about to pass the freigl
engine the front trucks jumped Il
track and the engine crashed vii
terrible force into the engine of Il
freight. wrecking beth engines al
telescoping the baggage, mail al
smoking cars.
1t was among the occupants of ii
smoking car that the fatalities q
Cured. The passengers in the tv
day coaches following the smoker {
capped with a violent shaking up.
The dead and injured in the smokil
car were tangled in the wreckaSe
the coach. which presented ghast
aspect to the first who ran up to t
rescue
women First tO Give Aid.
AS nearly all the men on the ira
had been in the smoker, the first wo
of rescue devolved on the few won
passengers who had escaped inJu
One of these, trained nurse,
heroic service.
The smoking caf was crushed II
an egg shell by the impact, and 1t
necessary to use picks and axes
release some of the men. The OF
person in the car who escaped init
was the newsboy. who was hur
through hole in the roof and
only slightly bruised.
Physicians and hospital attenda
were hastily brought TO Norris on
special train made up in this city.
pending their arrival such medical
lief as the little station afforded
given the injured.
The injured were brought to Wa