Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-22

three coaches The rear coaches all
remained on the track.
"The Inflated train consisted Of
thirteen cars The Pullman car Co
lonial from ST. Louis was leading the
train next TO engine No. 1909, Then
came smoker and following a day
coach in which there were many wU-
men and children.
About AZ miles beyond Green
Mountain at the top Of Hill Is n
cut about twelve feet deep. II was
in this vat the tender on the leading
engine suddenly jumped the track.
This throw the head locomotive into
the side of the cut. The clay OF the
sides was soft and the engine went
into it, stopping instantly. The sud
den stop ditched the second locomo-
tive and the heavy train crushed the
dav coach and smoker upon the Puli-
man The smoker and day coach were
instantly telescoped and hardly an oc-
cupant of either ear escaped death or
injury
While the last ten cars of the train
remained on the track. the shock sent
passengers sprawling from their seats
to the floor,
Conductor William Worst was the
first to grasp the situation. lie lifst
dispatched a brakeman back 70 TAG
train 40. 4la. bound for Sioux city.
Trainmen were hurried TO Gladbrook
and Grand Mountain
The uninjured passengers then be-
gan the work .of removing the dead
and injured. The dead were taken
to an adjoining pasture ana laid out
upon the grass as it was two hours
before a relief train from Marshall
town with surgeons and Coroner +. w
Jay arrived
The dead were crushed in many
cases beyond recognition, Heads were
severed from bodies; arms and legs
were cut off.
Coroner JAY himself a surgeon. was
Fastening in a Red Cross ambulance
to hospital in Marshalltovn when
he was thrown to the pavement as the
ambulance rounded corner. tie was
picked up unconscious. IT is believed
that his back is broken and that he
cannot live.
81. Thomas hospital WAS soon
filled and other rooms were pressed
into service The removal Of th'
bodies showed that the worst havoc
was worked among the passengers oi
the day coach and the smoker ana
if Is believed that but y~-o of the dead
" ere in the Pullman
So complete was the devastation oi
the smoker that not single uprigi
was standing The day coach, IKE
wise was torn almost to splinIers.
Before evening it was believed that
the bodies OF all the victims had peeh
removed from the wreckage but lat,
tonight two other bodies were found
in the debris.
By morning it is expected that the
track will be cleared and train service
may be renewed.
Prof H. w. Parrish of Cedar Fails
teacher in economies at the State
Teachers college, was one Of II
first to be taken from the ruins ~
was fatally injured and was rushed
TO the hospital. but died in the am
buiancc.
Or. +. w Devry of Chicago and pr
punhnm of Sioux Falls were phNai-
cians on the train Although injured
themselves they worked hard - sucr
cor others
James Mcnamara assistant head
clerk of the Modern Woodmcn Of
America at Rock Island. WAS In the
smoker. He escaped without injury
l.. r. Clark conductor on the Pull
man. was in an upper berth. but aside
from Il few bruises was not injured.
c. w. Moier of Walla Walla, Wash,
was in a lower berth in one Of
Pullman coaches nearest the rear of
the train
II did not realize it was wreck,
he said 'it sounded as though man
had thrown a brick on the floor The
ear | was in was wen back. in fron'
of II were the mail and baggage cars.
Ahead OF these the smoker and Pull
man | looked out and saw the en-
aine overturn before 7 realized IT,
II saw some terrible things. one
man had been driven head first into
"A window The glass was broken an
was cutting him where his head rested
on the sill and under all that awful
weight above He screamed and cried
for someone to Kill him. | round
stick and broke the glass under his
cheek where it lay on the sill and
the mans lower jaw fell to the ground
at my feet.
'There was an old man running
about pleading for us to rescue his
son. He was badly hurt himself The
son was cut entirely in two.
Miss May Hoffman Of Waterloo.
one of the dead was one of party
Of three couples. who were starting
out on a pleasure trip. Some months
ago she took third prize in a national
beauty contest conducted 10y the New
York World.
TWO young girls named Brown from
Waterloo late tonight Identified
among the dead their father, mother
ana two sisters.
identified Bodies
A midnight there we're forty three
bodies of the wreck victims in the
Of which seven have not been
Identified. Those Identified shortly
before midnight were:
John Bammberger, Toronto. ont.
r. r Fisher. West Branch, Iowa
Louie +. Biebuch, Muscatlne Iowa.
Mrs. T. NJ. Worthington' Cedar
Rapids.
dar Rapids.
Frank Heinz or Hurtz, address un~
known.
BESSIE Scrvis Washington. Iowa.
II is believed that there are more
bodies in the debris.