Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-03-22
TWO CARS TELESCOPE;
HARDLY ONE ESCAPES
After the Fearful Catastrophe on the
Rock Island Railway an Uneanny
Sight is Presented as Rows OF
Manqled Bodies Are Laid Out on
the Grass.
NRy Associated Press.)

tBy Associated Press.)
MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA. March
2l.-FOrty-five persons were killed
and forty were injured, many of them
fatally in a wreck four and a half
miles north CT Green Mountain, today
on Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
train. The train, which was a con-
solidation of No. 10, from. Chicago.
and No p. from St Louis. bound for
Minneapolis, Mimi, was being detour-
ed over the tracks of the Chicago
Greht Western road
Every surgeon in Marshalltown.
Green Mountain and Gladesbrook is
doing everything possible in emer-
gency hospitals in MarshalltOwn to
relieve the suffering of injured.
Around the various undertaking
shops the citizens thrcng with tear
stained faces. each anxious to get
some details Of those who are with
in.
How the Wreck Occurs.
A little freight wreck on the Rock
Island last night at Shellsburg, was
the indirect cause of the Green Noun
tain disaster. The Rock Island line
was blocked and it became necessary
to detour over the Great Western
tracks. Two trains sent from Cedar
Rapids TO Marshall town., were
coupled together and the two loco
motives placed in front of them.
Beth locomotives were running back
wards.
The combined train consisted of
thirteen cars. A Pullman was next
to the locomotives. Then came
smoking car and day coach. In the
latter were many women and chill
Gren.
The doubled train was going about
% miles an hour when it reached a
cut five miles from Green Mountain
OF the top of a hill. In this cut the
tender OF the trent locomotive jump
cd the track. This threw the head
locomotive into the sides CT the mar
row cut. The clay of the sides was
soft and the engine went into it and
stopped almost instantly.
Hardly One Escapes.
The sudden stoppage ditched the
second locomotive and the momentum
of the heavy train crushed the day
coach ard the smoking car against
the heavier Pullman. The smoking
car and day coach were telescoped
and hardly an occupant of either car
escaped death or injury.
While the last ten cars remained on
the track. the shock threw the pas
sengers sprawling from their seats.
Conductor William Worst despatch
ed a fIagman to flag a tra.l. Train
men were hurried to Green Noun
tain for help. Uninjured passengers
began removing the dead and injured.
The dead were taken to an adjoin-
ing pasture and laid on the grass.
A relief train from Marshalitown-
carrying Surgeons and Coroner jay.
arrived two hours after the crash.
Horrible Sight
BY that time the victims were laid
IN the grass in gruesOmc rows. The
sight that met the eyes Of the sur
icons was horrible. The dead were
crushed and mutilated, in many cases
beyond recognition. Heads were
severed from bodies. arms and legs
were cut of. Here lay bleeding
trunk: there a head with the agony
Of death still on the countenance.
A second rescue train relieved the
frst. which brought load OF injur-
cd to Marshalltown.
Cc.-cner Jay was Fastening in a
red cross ambulance to the hospital
when he was thrown 90 the pavement
as the ambulance rounded a corner.
and rendered unconscious. u is be-
licvcd that his back is broken and
that he cannot live.
The hospital in Marshaiitown was
soon filed. Then other buildings
we're pressed into service.
Coaches SpIintereo.
The removal OF the bodies showed
that nearly all the dead we're In The
day coach aud the smoking car. II IS
believed that only two Of the dead
were In the Pullman
So complete was the destruction Of
the smoking car that nc; a single
upright chair was standing. The
lcor alone remained a. mute witness
Of the friehtful impact Of the car
ahead. The day coach likewise was
torn almost 20 spiinters. The bag
saxe car. which was behind the DAY
coach. was jammcd In The front, but
was not torn 10 pieces.
Before darn the bodies % ali the
victims we're removed. ciihcrsio 81.
Thomas hospital OF o. murrucs.
Tonight the scene Of the wreck pre-
scuicd efiii an uncsnny sight The
nrkcriug torches a. tho vrcckiuSl
crews accsncd a. &c reflected IN The
crimson streams that DYED the ground