The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-22
Spreading Rail Causes Engine
to Jump the Track and
Fearful Crash Results
BODIES OF VICTIMS ARE
MOST HORRIBLY MANGLED
Many of the Passengers Are Found
Alive But With Fatal Injuries and
Some Die After Being Taken
to the Hospitals

Marshalltown. Ia, March 21.-Forty-
Il five persons were killed and 40 were in
jured, many of them fatally, in wreck
four and a half miles north of Green
Mountain, Ia, today at s:16 a. M on
Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific train
The train, which was consolidation of
4 No. 10 from Chicago and No. q from
MIST, Louis, bound for Minneapolis, Min
suesota, was being detoured over the
I3*.racks of the Chicago Great Western
railroad. Running at about 80 miles an
hour in cut north of Green Mountain
1t struck spread rail, 1t is believed. The
pilot locomotive Jumped the track and
with terrific force was buried in an em-
bankment of soft clay.
second locomotive coupled behind the
first rolled over and the impact of the
sudden stop hurled all the rear cars for
ward.
A coach, a smoker and a Pullman were
smashed to splnters, almost all the oc-
cupants being killed or injured. The
superstructure of the Pullman was liter
ally shaved off and was jammed like a
ramrod through the smoking car and
the day coach.
Many passengers we're apparently killed
outright, but the suffering among the in
jured was terrible. Arms and legs were
cut off.
The wreckage was almost crimson with
blood, some of the bodies being crushed
beyond recognition by the mass of twisted
rails and splintered cars.
A few of the passengers were found
- 49,, ~ tha wreck Decanitated
i.as,as ,.,ora found and n was almost
himpossibe to assert the dismembered
ASparts The wreck occurred at a point
snhich was difficult to reach with prompt
fcllel .,,o &c could ha n,,led out xysrs
ssrstcnso OUT IN ~ an ,,,t,,ras aT,,ns sran,
eties q. y -. .,,a fr.,s,, Macs qghicn
.,,a,.e s,e,Isd In hurried the efforts of the
"ele ~'ne1 M. =, ,s,,.aal,a ea aid NOT take
seseueis as,
usha ,n,nrad were rushed to a hospital
Inc inJuieo sa,,,,a sauara1 oT them
as soon as poss two os the bodies
dying on tne way. -, ,,,a,,t Go difri-
were not 'aAen ous a.,,o,le ,yrec,Sage from
cuit mas - ~
tne ~ ~na,.ow 'as ,,rraa o,,u 70 the first
atal'ies r,,s ,,s.y coaches all re-
three coaches. -,
mained on the 'racA'
List of the Dead
identified dead:
nJ,lton Parish. Cedarville, Mo.
rSr ,ra,holz fedar Rapids. conduc-
~. trsi,, Mo u
lol i",'. cassr Ran,ds fireman,
Stortar Cedar Rapids brakem an.
1,os auss,,o price Cedar Rapids, colored
poh,nsor Cedar Rapids, engineer
Il. "A; nop' ,p 600
OF ehsine e,sb c,adar Fails. professor
VI y. s..to ,raa chers, college.
iowa ''.as ats valley Junction. wife of
ri o,,ts
DI; Lewi5. @ 5.rs core Fills hotel. Water
W
W ~, n Ivuan. waterloo. Ia
~ ~ Iyascoc,x West Liberty. stock
-. ~
Anton Phillips, Waterloo
IA G. w. Blair Sedalla' MO- oieo at o.
Thomas nospltai.
May Honman' waterloo, Ia xxy,,
Man supposeo ~ 20 ~
mar, MO-
George T. Bunt' Wa.elioo' Ia
Fred L. COTTON, "1si,ins.oi' 1a I
IL. L. Penninston' GaieSouis, r,''' ~
heI Of GaiesDqrg loose, s o. Do Do niSs a. trox.
Thomas u. betts, oeuai iapus' .i"'
cling salesman.
g q. Ives, west brancn, Ia.
Mrs. Walter DAVIS wa.erioo.
John Banbrioge, HartIoru, on'
T. r Fisher, Wes. brah'h'
William fretcn, Vin'oh.
/. Iangen, Nortnmo1u;; ,.;a,. rr;rst Nat,ona,
Earl T. Main, cashier flrst Na.iohal
bank, Williamsheld, III.
Caesar Hon, Minneapolis mai cierk-
Andrew j. White, colored, 81 faui.
Jennie Young Vinton.
Lauren Allschwager Ogden, la.
Unidentified:
Ten women, two men, one OF whom is
supposed, from card In pocket to be
resident of Dalhart, Texas. Two girls
one about years OF age the other about
rs.
A John White, of Des Moines. pilot or
n the train for the Great Western, died al
10 o'clock tonight.
Mrs. B. G. Lyman of Cedar Rapids diei
from injuries at 10 o'clock
u.,4.,. so- r,tured
HoSp
Ihe Cathohc hospltai' uhe raiiioae s.
branch OF the \. M Y A., and an apart
nient house near the chicago Great West
ern depot have been converted into sur
sieai rooms In which are the injured.
Every surgeon and physician In Mar
ghelltoWn and the towns of Green Noun