Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-22
Forty Killed In Railroad Wreck
NEARLY AS MANY MORE WERE
 SERIOUSLY INJURED.
DEAD HORRIBLY MINGLED
Victims Laid Out in Grewsone Rowe -FrishtfuI Disaster to Two Rock Island Trains Running Double.

MarshalItown. Iowa, March 2f.- More than forty persons were killed and almost as many more were injured today in the wreck at Green Mountain of two Rock Island trains running over the Chicago Great Western tracks from Marshalltown to Waterloo. Several of the injured may die.
 A number of the dead are so hor- ribly mangled that Identification may be impossible.
 Every surgeon in Marshalltown. Green Mountain and G1adbrook is do- ing everything possible in emergency hospitals In Marshalltown to relieve the suffering of injured
 Around the various undertaking shops the citizens throng with tear stained faces each anxious to get some details of those who are within. Freight Wreck the Indirect Cause.
 A little freight wreck on the Rock Island last night at Shelburg was the indirect cause of the Green Mountain disaster The Rock Island line was blocked Nand it became necessary to detour over the Great Western tracks. Two trains sent from Cedar Rapids to Marshalltown were coupled togeth- CT and the two locomotives placed in front of them Both locomotives were running backwards.
 The combined train consisted of thirteen cars. A Pullman was nexf smoking car and a day coach. Tn the latter were many women and chill dren.
 One Locomotive Jumped Track.
 The doubled train was going about 25 miles an. hour, when it reached the top of hill. In this cut the ten- der of the front locomotive jumped the tracks. This threw the head loco- motive into the sides of the narrow cut. The clay of the sides was soff and the engine went into 1t and stop ped almost instantly
 Smoker and Day Coach TeIeseoPed.
 The sudden stoppage ditched the sec ond locomotive and the momentum of the heavy train crushed the day coach fer Pullman. The smoking ear and day coach were telescoped and hardly an occupant of either car escaped death or injury.
 the track, the shock threw the pas sengers sprawling from their seats.
 Conductor William Worst despatch ed trainmen back to flag a following to Gladbrook and Green Mountain for help.
 Horrible Sight Met Surgeons' Eyes.
 Uninjured messengers began remoV- ing the dead and injured. The dead were taken to an adjoining pasture and laid on the grass. relief train from Marshalltown, carrying surgeons and Coroner Jay arrived two hours after the crash. By that time the vic- tims were laid out in gruesome rows. The sight that met the eyes of the sur geons was horrible. The dead were crushed and mutilated in many cases beyond recognition. Heads were sew cred from bodies, arms and legs were cut off. Here lay a bleeding trunk; there a head with the agony of death still on the countenance.
 A second rescue train relieved the first, which brought load of injured to Marshalltowp.
 Hospitals Filled.
 Coroner Jay was hasteninR in a Red Cross ambulance to the hospital when he was thrown to the pavement as the ambulance rounded a corner and rem dered unconscious. It is believed his back is broken and he cannot live. The hospital in Marshalltown was soon filled. Then other buildings were press ed into service.
 The removal of the bodies showed that nearly all the dead were in the day coach and the smoking car. It is believed only two of the dead were in the Pullman.
 Complete Destruction of Smoker.
 So complete was the destruction of the smoking car that not single up- remained as mute witness of the frightful impact of the car ahead. The day coach likewise was torn almost to splinters. The baggage car, which was behind the day coach, was tammed in the front but was not torn to pieces
 Before dark the bodies of all the vic tims were removed, either to St. Thomas hospital or to morgues.
 uncanny Sight ct Night.
 Tonight the scene of the wreck pre- sented still an uncanny sight. The fickering torches of the wrecking crews seemed to be reflected in the crimson streams that dyed the ground on either side of the track. By morn ing it is expected that the track will be cleared and train service may be renewed.