Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-22
Rock Island Train from Des Moines to
st. Paul Ditohed Near Green
Mountain, Ia.
TwENTY-FOUR ARE INJURED
Several Fatally Hurt and Death List
May Exceed Forty.
TRAIN HAD BEEN DEToURED
Sent Over Great Western Tracks Be.
cause of Burning Of Bridge.
PARTIAL LIST OF THE VICTIMS
OF the Thirty7Four Bodies Taken
from Debris Only Four Arc 4deR-
tified-r-Chair Car and Two
Sleepers Damaged.

tified-T-Chair Car and Two
SIeepers Damaged.
MARSIrALLTOwN Ia. March si.-Furty-
five known dead. aud twcnty-fo four Injured
several fatally was the result OF the wreck
of Rock Island train which was being
detoured on the Chicago Great Western
tracks, four miles north Of Green Mountain,
Marshall county. today. Prof. l.. w Par
rish OF the Iowa state Teachers college,
Cedar Fails, died shortly after reaching
the hospital in this qity.
List Of Dead.
MILTON PARISH, CedarvnIe. Mo.
JACOB NAUHOLz. Cedar Rapids, Ia,
conductor OF train No. q.
To- ROSS Cedar Rapids fireman.
man.
1...CHIE PRICE. Cedar Rapids, colored
r, a. ROBINSON, Cedar Rapids. engineer
of engine No. S2S
L. w. PARRISH. Cedar FAILS. professor.
Iowa state Teachers college.
MRS LEWIS. Valley Junction. wife of
~ ". EGGERs, care Ellis hotel, water
4 d. LYMAN. Waterloo.
n. c, HEACOCK, West Liberty, stock
NNTHoNY PHILLIPS, waterloo.
GEORGE T. BUNT Waterloo.
ERBD L. CoLTON, Washington, la.
III, l.. PENNINGTON. Galesburg. Ill.,
member Galeshurg lodge, brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen.
THOMAS q let's Cedar Rapids,
G. G. EVANS. West Branch, half OF head
MRS. WALTER DAVIS. waterloo
JOHN CAMBRIDGE. Hartford ont
- f. FISHER West Branch, la.
WILLIAM FLICK, Yinton, Ia
INGEBRET l.. TANGEN Northwood, Ia
EARL T. MAIN, cashier First National
bank Williamsfeld ILL.,
CAESAR &. hOFr, Minneapolis, mail
ANDREW y WHITE. colored st. Paul.
JENNIE YOUNG, Vinton.
LAUREN ALLSCHWAGER, Ogden, Ia
TEN WOMEN, unidentified.
TWO MEN, unidentified, one of whom is
suppose, supposed from card In his ,pocket to be
Two GIRLS, unidentified ono about
years Of age the orhsr fb9pt is
The Injured.
The injured:
Irene sowan Waterloo Ia
man.
q. w Thompson, vlnton, La.
L. E Eggleston, farmer, home near Vim
Lizzie Anderson. vinton, Ia
August swanson, vlnton Ia
Florence Winn, Waterloo, Ia
Mrs. l.. Patterson, Louisiana Mo.
Nora Wilcox, Louisiana, Mo
Charles Davis, Indian, Mimi, head in
probably fatal
P. J. swift Of the Daily Reporter staff
Waterloo, right leg broken; injuries very
Dr. G. W. Newman, Mount Vernon, Mo.
T. A. Russell, Grand Forks, MINI.
Mrs. +. A. Russell.
A. - Mcdonald Perth, N ID.
Mrs. A. S. Mcdonald.
J, switzer. Waerloo
L. NJ Wallin Washburn, N. d.
l.. ID. Kennedy. Burlington.
A. II. Nagel. Waterloo.
Mrs. William Teats Reinbeck. Ia
Alfred Abraham, Claiemont. s. ID.
John White, Des Moines, Rock Island
Miss Olga Swanson Of ylnton scalp torn
nearly off.
William Moody Mehominee, wis.
G. J. Lamb. Chicago.
Wilbur Neese, Rock Fails, Ill.
Frank Swanson, Wilton, N. ID.
n, Jenkins ST. Louis.
e. ID. Hill Muscatine
George Downing, Vlnton
+. $. Pritchard, Cedar Rapids
A. s. Brown, Waterloo.
Francis Swanson, Burlington.
WIN II. Arnett, Independence.
G. W. Peterson, Cedar Rapids.
w, l. Southwell, Washington, la.
Edward VIII, Muscatine.
e. l.. Burdge, Davenport.
Two Cnrs TelescODed.
The wreck resulted when the engine left
the track and stuck In the bank in a deep
cut, while going at the speed Of twenty
five miles an hour. To sudden impact
caused the Pullman sleeper to telescope
the smoking car just behind. driving the
sleeper clear through the car.
The smoker in turn telescoped the wom-
ems day coach
In these two cars the death loss was ap-
palling, there being eighty passengers in
the women's coach and almost as many
In the smoker. In the sleeper only two
were killed and five or six hurt according
TO Pullman Conductor Il. w, Jay Of this
city. The county coroner and one OF the
physicians Of the rescue party were badly
hurt by being thrown from an ambulance
when making a breakneck race for the
hospital A temporary morgue has been
established here.
Every physician and nurse IN the city
was rushed to the scene In automobiles.
while two special trains were made up
and rushed to the scene. The wounded
We're brought to Marshalltown and placed
in the aCthoiic hospital the Young Mems
/ Christian association and eevry available
apartment house
Thrty-four bodies had been recovered
at O'clock with every indication that
more are beneath the wreckago The death
list may go above forty r. w. Cherry OF
Princeton. la. who assisted IN the rescue.
reported that he helped carry thirty-seven
, bodies to the grass beside the railroad
tracks, The number OF wounded viii reach
sixty or sevgntly, with many OF them IA
tally injured
Bodies Horribly MannIed.
The bodies We're found horribly manelad
and broken up. Mr. Cherry reported find
ing a head severed entirely from a body.
I Later the body was found. minus a leg,
and later the missing leg one OF the
injured men had a splinter from an oak
beam, half as big as a mans wrist. thrust
entirely through his body 1t required the
strength Of three men TO hold the victim
and pull the splinter from his body. The
injured were terribly cut and mangled.
Arms and legs we're broktn. hips broken,
chests crushed ana some but slightly re-
sembled human forms Some took their
injuries stoicaily ana braveiy, others We're
screaming hysterlcally and stll others were
so far gone that only weak means canas