Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-11
PASSENGER AND FREIGHT IRA
COLLIDE AT HIGH SPEED Al
=, GARRISON.
ONE MAN FATALLY INJURED,
OTHERS SERIOUSLY II
Light Passenger Train Taking Place OF
Motor Car Meets Heavy Freight
blight Engine PIouehs Thru Heavy
Machine-cars Not >Telesco ped-List
of tho Injured.

| Special to mes-Republican.
Cedar Rapids, April 1.-Another
wreck on the Rock Island. this time
on the northern Iowa division near
| Garrison, Benton county, injured twen-
ty-six people. passengers and train
men. when two trains came together at
high speed. One of the passengers is
believed to be fatally hurt.
The following were injured:
Conductor ]. IS. Wolfe. Cedar Rapids.
head bruised. chest hurt
Engineer Lyman. Iowa Falls, leg
broken, internal injuries.
Engineer Sawyer, Cedar Rapids, head
cut and bruised.
Fireman colloeon, Cedar Rapids. cut
and bruised
Fireman Douglass. Cedar Rapids.
bruised.
W. M. Lahue, Garrison. internal in
juries, very serious, probably VIII die.
Mrs. w. NJ. Lahue. Garrison. bruised
and shocked.
Chester Lahuc. Garrison, head
bruised.
Merle purris, Carlson, slight
bruises.
Mabel Croft. Garrison, ha .if bruised
Ruth Irwin. Garrison. ansie injured.
Ruth Cragcr Garrison i.p cut.
Glen Henkel, Garrison, rose broken.
Nancy Iaaa. Traer. teeth knocked
out
| C. NJ. Howard. Traer, left leg hurt.
Ed Rodenkeim. Traer, leg bruised.
| F.J. Lynch. yinton. head hurt
| Guy Willis. vinton, head hurt.
Glen Bolenbaugh. vinton. side hurt.
| J. j. Snitjer, Welisburg, side injured.
| C. ]. Peters, Wellsburg. left arm in
jured and face cut.
S. S. Sutton Dysart, shocked.
William I.aphan. Dysart. face cut
and side injured.
! Mrs J. l.. Brown Delphus, Kan,
slightly bruised
C. D. Nnsner, Minneapolis. cut about
face and feet.
Two Italian laoorers. names un-
| known, slight.
Collide HeadCn
Train No. 4S6, consisting of an en-
CINE and one coach running in place
Of the south bound motor car on the
Rock Island. and north bound freight
No. 80 were the trains involved in the
collision They met l,5oo feet east of
the station at Garrison. on sharp
curve, and the members of neither
train crew saw the other train until
| within COO feet of each other, The trains
came together with such force that the
Tighter passenger engine was imbedded
in the freight engine for half it's length.
The enginemen on both engines jumped
but ali were more or less seriously in
jured in doing SO.
Did Mot Telescope.
| The passenger car was not tele-
scoped. but the force Of the collision
and the sudden stoppage broke every
seat loose and shattered every window.
The passengers were injured by being
thrown about the car and among the
wrecked seats.
Cared For in Homes.
The injured passengers were rescued
by the trainmen who were not entirely
incapacitated, and were removed to the
homes of the people of Garrison. Mr.
Lahue who was not seriously injured
was taken to the home OF his mother
which was only 500 feet from the scene
of the wreck.
Coincidence in Two Wrcesk.
The collision occurred at s:1a O'Clock
this. Monday, morning. and coinci-
dence in connection with the disaster
is in the fact that 1t followed the ter
rible wreck to Rock Island trains near
Green Mountain just WEEKS "
day and at almost exactly the same
hour of the day The Green Mountain
wreck. which resulted in more thar
fifty deaths. occurred. as near as car
be ascertained,' at SIS a. M. the two
| wrecks therefore occurring on the
same day Of the week and at the same
hour lacking two minutes.
Disposal Of tho injured.
Eight of the injured were brought &c
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