The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21
List of Injured Probably Will
Prove as Great.
Rock Island Train Wrecked
Great Westerns Track.
ALL in CHAIR CAR
Two Sleepers Were Thrown
From the Track.
One Passenger Helps to Remove
81 Bodies From Debris.

81 Bodies From Debris.
Marshalltown, Ia, March 21.-Fifty-
five people were killed in a wreck of
Rock Island passenger train at Green
Mountain today.
How 1t Happened.
MarshaIltown. Ia, March 21.-Two
trains. special No. 81 for the Twin
Cities, and No. 19. Chicago to the
Twin Cities, combined. which were
being detoured around a freight wreck
near Shellsburg, Ia, were backing
with two engines when the front en-
gine left the track at a deep cut, car
rying the other engine with it.
Both stuck in clay bank, stopping
the train so suddenly the sleepers tel
escoped the smoker and day coach,
was special women's coach. The
shock was hardly felt until the sleep
er telescoped the smoker.
The Identified Dead.
JACOB NAUHOLZ. Cedar Rapids.
conductor of train No. 21.
ROSS, Cedar Rapids, fireman
of engine No. 82S.
c. HARTER, Cedar Rapids, brake
man.
ARCHIE PRICE. Cedar Rapids,
colored, porter. -
The Injured.
Irene Cowan, Waterloo, Ia
L. W. Parish, Cedar Falls, profess
sor Iowa State Teachers college.
Fireman Goodnough, Cedar Rapids.
G. w. Thompson, Vinton.
L. e. Eggleston, Vinton.
Lizzie Anderson, Vinton.
August Swanson, Vinton.
Florence Winn, Waterloo.
ire 10 TanT
Nora wilcox, Louisiana, Mo.
Charles Davis. Minneapolis.
P. j. Swift. Waterloo.
DR.. G. w. Newman, Mt. Vernon, Ia.
P. A. Russell, Grand Forks, MINI.
Mrs. P. A. Russell
A S. Mcdonald, Perth, N. D.
]. Switzer, Waterloo.
L. NJ. Wallin, Washburn. N. D.
w. B. Kennedy. Burlington.
A. H. Nagle. Waterloo.
Mrs. Peese, Reinbeck.
Alfred Abaham, Claremont, S. d.
John White, Marshalltown, Great
Western pilot.
Every physician and nurse in the
city was rushed to the scene in auto
while two special trains were
made up. Thirty-four bodies had been
recovered at o'clock with every in
dication that more are beneath the
wreckage 1t was thought the list of
dead might reach As. r. w. Cherry,
of Princeton. Ia. who assisted in the
rescue, reports that he helped carry 81
bodies to the grass beside the railroad
tracks The number of wounded will
reach so or 20, with many fatally.
Des Moines, Ia, March 21.-F. w.
Cherry of Princeton. Ia, one of the
passengers on the Rock Island train
which was wrecked at Green Noun
the total dead number AZ, with the in
jured list probably as great. Cherry
said he helped remove 81 dead from
the wreck.
Chicago, March 21.-An official re-
the Chicago & Great Western railway
gives the number of dead in the de-
railment accident at Gladbrook, Ia.
early today as IA. Twenty-Five persons
were injured. Nearly all OF the cas-
ualties occurred in the chair car, al
though two sIeepers were also wreck
ed. A special train carrying all avail
able physicians and volunteer nurses
was dispatched to take the dead and
injured back to Marshalltown.
The wrecked train was consolida-
tion of two others, both known as the
Twin City express, one having left
Chicago at 4:15 p. m. and the other
St. Louis at 2:15 p. m. yesterday.
The washout of a bridge north of
Cedar Rapids made the detour of
necessary and the two trains were
made one at Cedar Rapids.
A long distance telephone message
from Conductor Worst at noon stated
that "a injured and the bodies of IA
dead had been recovered from the
wreck. He expressed the belief that
there were no others in the debris.
The wreckage, he said, did not catch
fire.
Marshalltown, Ia. March 21.-Thir-
ty-two and perhaps 40 people were
killed and "a injured, several fatally
in the wreck today of a Rock Island
train which was being detoured on
the Chicago Great Western tracks
four miles north of Green Mountain.
Ia, today.
Off7ciaI Report.
Chicago. March 21.-An official re-
port to the Rock Island offices here at
2:1O p. M, states that the bodies of 33
dead have been recovered from the
wreck at Gladbrook. Ia, and 81 in
jured rescued. AT that hour the search
continued.