The Penn's Grove record., 1910-03-25
as DEAD TAKEN FROM
ROCK ISLAND WRECK
As MANY More Are Hurt in Crash
Near MarshaIItoWn, Iowa.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN MANGLED
Running Through a Narrow Cut, n
Cars Piled Up on Engine When
Tender Jumped the Track-Two
Cars Crushed.

MdTSudliLOWu, IOWd. rolSJ1A'
persons were killed and almost as
many more injured in the wreck at
Green Mountain of two Rock Island
trains running over the Chicago Great
Western tracks from Marshalltown to
Waterloo.
Thirty-fve of the dead have been
identified, but ten had been so badly
disigured that their identity could
not be discovered at the scene of the
wreck.
List of dead: A. P. Adams, Wilmar,
Mimi; Lauren AIlschweger, Ogden,
Utah; John cambridge. Hartford, On
tario; Thomas G. Belts, Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa; Louis F. Biebucb. Musca-
tine, Iowa; G. w. Blair, Sedalia, Mo-;
George P. Blunt, Waterloo. Iowa;
Ross Charter, brakeman; Fred l..
Cotton, Washington, Iowa; Mrs. Wal
ter Davis, Waterloo, Iowa; NJ. w. Egg
gers, Waterloo, Iowa; c. G. Ewes,
West Branch, Iowa; F. F. Fisher,
West Branch, Iowa; William Flick,
Vinton, Iowa; N. D. Heacock, West
Liberty, Iowa; Frank Heinz, address
unknown; Caesar c. O. Hof, Mime
apolis, Mimi; Mae Hoffman, Water
loo, Iowa; Mrs. B. G. Lyman, Cedar
Rapids; Mrs. Lewis, Valley Junction,
Iowa; F. D. Lyman, Waterloo, Iowa;
Earl T. May, Williamsfield, ILL.,; ia
cob Nauholz, conductor; Milton Par
ish, Cedarville, Mo-; L.. w. Parrish,
Cedar Falls, Iowa, professor Iowa
State Teachers College; H. L. Pen
nington. Galesburg, ILL.,; Anthony
Phillips, Waterloo, Iowa; Archie
Price, colored porter; R. A. Robin
son, engineer; A. Ross, fireman; Bes-
sic Servis, Washington, Iowa; Inge-
bert L. Tangen, Northwood, Iowa;
William Ward, West Branch, Iowa;
Andrew ]. White (%colored), st. Paul,
Mimi; John White, Des Moines; Mrs.
E. M. Worthington, Cedar Rapids;
Jennie Young, Vinton, Iowa; uniden-
tilted, seven women, n man and
two girls.
Among the two score injured, most
of whom live in Iowa, are:
Irene Cowan, Waterloo, Iowa; G.
w. Thompson, Vinton, Iowa; Lizzie
Anderson, Vinton, Iowa; Florence
VIM, Waterloo, Iowa; Mrs. L. Pat
terson, Louisiana, Mo-; Norsa Will
cox, Louisiana, Mo-; Charles Davis,
midland, Mimi, probably fatal; P. j.
Swift, reporter, Waterloo, Iowa, Sc
rious; DR.. G.. w. Newman, Mt. YER
non, Mo-; P. A. Russell and wife,
Grand Forks, Mimi; A. S. Mcdonald
and wife, Perth, N. D.; Mrs. William
Teatse, Reinbeck, Iowa; Miss Olga
Swanson, Vinton, Iowa, scalp torn
nearly off; William Moody, Menomi-
nee, Wis; C. J. Lamb, Chicago, ILL.,,
and N. Jenkins, st. Louis, Mo.
Every surgeon in Marshalltown,
Green Mountain and Gladbrook did
everything possible in emergency hos
pitfalls in Marshalltown to relieve the
sufferings of the injured. Around
the various undertaking shops the
citizens thronged with tear-stained
faces, each anxious to get some details
of those who were within.
A little freight wreck on the Rock
Island at Shellsburg was the indirect
cause of the Green Mountain disaster.
The Rock Island line vas blocked and
1t became necessary to detour over
the Great Western tracks. Two trains
sent from Cedar Rapids to Marshall
town were coupled together, and the
two locomotives placed in front of
them. Both locomotives were run
ming backward.
The combined train consisted of
thirteen cars. A Pullman was next to
the locomotives. Then came the
smoking car and a day coach, in the
latter of which were many women and
children.
The doubled train was going about
twenty-five miles an hour when 1T
reached a cut five miles from Green
Mountain, at the top of a hill. In this
cut the tender of the front locomo-
tive jumped the track. This threw
the head locomotive into the sides of
the narrow cut. The clay of the sides
was soft and the engine went into it
and stopped almost instantly.
The sudden stop ditched the first
locomotive and the momentum of the
heavy train crushed the day coach
and the smoking car against the
heavy Pullman. The smoking car
and day coach were telescoped, and
hardly an occupant of either car es-
capped death or injury. While the last
ten cars remained on the track, the
shock threw the passengers sprawling
from their seats.
Uninjured passengers began remov-
ing the dead and injured. The dead
were taken to an adjoining pasture
and laid on the grass. A relief train
from Marshalltown, carrying surgeons
and Coroner Jaw, arrived two hours
after the crash. By that time the
victims were laid on the grass in rows.
The sight that met the Eyes Of the
surgeons was horrible. The dead
were crushed and mutilated in many
cases beyond recognition. Heads
were severed from bodies, arms and
legs were cut off; here, lay bleeding
trunks; there, a head. A second res
cue train relieved the first, which
brought a load of injured to Mar
cho11fnun