Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-22

cago, which left at 4:10 p. m. Sun
day, had been consolidated at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. They were to have
been uncoupled and run as separate
trains at Waterloo. The st. Louis
section is operated by the Rock ISL
and in conjunction with the Chicago.
Burlington and Quincy.
Fatalities occurred only in the first
three coaches. The rear coaches all
remained on the tracks.
The i'll fated train consisted of 13
cars. The Pullman, Colonial, the
rear car of train No. 81, from ST.
engine No. 100. Then came a
smoker, and following that a day
coach, in which there were many
women and children.
Rear Section Escapes.
The Chicago section, being in the
rear, escaped injury.
The train was going at q speed esti-
mated to be between 25 and 80 miles
an hour. About four and a half miles
beyond Green Mountain at the top of
hill is cut about Q feet deep. 1t
was in this that the tender on the
leading engine suddenly jumped the
track. This threw the head locomo-
tive, No. $40, into the sides of the
cut. The clay of the sides was soft
and the engine went into it and
stopped instantly. The sudden stop
page ditched the second locomotive,
and the heavy train crashed the day
coach and smoker upon the Pullman.
The smoker and day coach were in
stantly telescoped and hardly an oc-
cupant of either car escaped death
or injury. Conductor William Worst,
on the ST. Paul train, hurried train
men to Gladbrook and Green Noun
tain The uninjured passengers re-
covered sufficiently to begin the work
of removing the dead and injured.
The relief train from Marshalltown,
carrying surgeons and Coroner E. w.
Jay, was two hours in arriving, and
by that time the victims were laid
upon the grass in grewsome rows.
Coroner Badly Injured.
The dead were crushed and mutt
lated IN many cases beyond recogni-
ton. Heads were severed from
bodies, arms and legs were cut of.
Here lay bleeding trunk. There a
head with the CHASTITY agony Of death
still upon the countenance. A sec
ond rescue train relieved the first
after the first train load had been
brought to Marshalltown. Coroner
q. w. Jay, himself surgeon, was
bulance rounded a corner, and rem
sr
that his back is broken and that he
cannot live.
So complete was the devastation of
the smoker that not a single upright
was standing. The floor alone re-
manned as mute witness Of the fright
full impact of the car ahead.
Professor L. w. Parrish of Cedar
Falls, teacher In economics at the
State Teachers college, was one of
the first to be taken from the ruins.
He was MORALLY hurt and died in
the ambulance at Marshalltown.
DR.. ]. w. Dewey Of Chicago was a
physician on the train Although in
jured himself. he turned his attention
to the injured and worked faithfully.
James Mcnamara, assistant head
Cl0Eh VI Tie w OOdi1SA III
America at Rock Island, who was in
the smoker, miraculously escaped
injury.
Girl Was Prize Beauty.
Miss May Hoffman of Waterloo
was accounted the most beautiful
woman in Waterloo. She was a
travelling demonstration for a type
writer company. She was horribly
crushed and mangled. Some months
ago she took third place in a national
beauty contest conducted by the New
York World, and recently won prize
as a stenographer in Chicago COM
petition.
George W. Downing of Vinton was
In the smoker, the third car from the |
He was pinned down |
under a seat.
1.-The first I knew he said, 1.-The |
car just squashed; the other car |
came right back through into us. Two |
men sitting in front of US were crush |
ed to death, and we were down on the |
bottom with what seemed the world |
piled on top of u.s.