Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-05-18
FORMER MAYOR KILLED
IN STREET CAR WRECK
n. J. Rawlings, Ex-Executive of Len
OK, Tenn, and Pioneer Citizen,
Meets Tragic Death.

Memphis, Tenn, May 17.-R. ]. Raw.
lings, former mayor of Lenox, a suburb
Of this city, and pioneer citizen OF
Shelby county, was killed and half q
dozen others were more or less seri-
ously injured Saturday when an East
end car, hurrying towards the city.
collided with large street paving
machine near the corner of Madison
avenue and Lumpkin street. The
dead: r. j. Rawlings. Seriously in
jured: ]. oliver. 2174 Edwin avenue;
E. r. Stanfield, j. w. Ayres, New
Stewart, negro. Passengers in the
car who did not see the impending &C.
cident were moved down as If by a
reaper. Heavy timbers were crushed
and window glasses were smashed.
Washington. May 17.-Five persons
were injured, none fatally, as the
result Of passenger train from
Atlanta, running onto South
ern Railways switch at Juneau, N.
c., which had evidently been thrown
with malicious purposes. Juneau is
Ave miles south of Charlotte. The
engine overturned and several cars
were derailed.
Rev. R. c. Clark of Nashville.
Tenn: Engineer C. R. Nesbitt of
Greenville. S. c.; Baggagemaster E.
H. Dean of Atlanta: Fireman William
Walkup, a negro of Greenville, N. c.,
and two children of Katy Mitchell,
negress of Monroe, N. c., sustained
slight injuries.
Kansas City, May lit is believed
that none OF the IL persons injured
will die as result of the wreck of
the Buffalo Colorado limited passen-
ger train. west bound, near Randolph,
Mo-, six miles northeast of Kansas
City The train, which was Wabash
No. 9, one of the first Of the through
trains to be used In the combination
Union Pacific-Wabash transcontinent-
al service recently inaugurated,
crashed into a steel twin bridge span
ming what is known as the Rush riv-
er, creek one mile north of Ran
dolph. The bridge piers had been
undermined by recent high waters and
the fact that the train was proceeding
ut slow speed was all that prevented
fearful disaster. The engine and
the baggage and mail cars crashed
into the bridge. The engine was near
ly clear of the trestle when the struc
ture gave way. The engine went
down. landing on the bank Of thu
stream. The mall car and the baggag,
car folded together and hung sus
pended over the river. The first pas
} senger coach was thrown off the tract
and stopped, and this alone saved 4
and the cars following. With the frs
creaking Of the structure, w. P. Car
Isle, the engineer and his fireman
! Ira lies, both of Moberly. Mo-. jumped
! and escaped with severe bruises.
, Kansas City. Mo-. May 17-Betwee,
30 and 40 persons were injured, SOM
of them probably fatally, by tn
wreck of Chicago & Alton train No. IA
near Odessa. Mo. The train was lo
cal, bound for Bloomington. Ill. Tn
!, dangerously hurt: Mrs. Mary Cox an
!. two daughters of Stilwell, Okla; Mis-
Ames Donaldson. Odessa. Mo-, vii
t probably die; Miss Alvin Stewart
} Odessa. Mo-; Mrs M. C. Moore, Colun
\ bia. Mo-; Myrtle Mcneil. Odessa. Mo
l arm broken; Mrs. Richard Powell
: Odessa. Mo-: Miss Vera Hammond
, Odessa. Mo. The wreck happened q
Walnut Row school house. two mile
: east OF Odessa. The cause of the az
!. cident is not known. The track wa
t torn up for a distance of 400 feet.