Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-24

OeaO were also louQ IN lneH expires.
sions of satisfaction in being able to
recover certain valuables. that they
knew to be on their dead.
The most valuable package handled
from any of the wreck victims was a
parcel of notes, securities and negot-
liable papers, to the value Of about
L. Cotton, of Washington. The papers
belonged to Colton's firm, the Paul
Land Company.
From a castoff garment taken from
the body of Mrs. Milton Parish it was
found later by Howard Wilbur, that in
a little sack, pinned to the woman's
undergarment, was contained the sum
of SIS
The police were kept busy during the
stirring scenes, and to the police head
quarters were referred many of the
calls from out of town, made by rela-
tives and friends of the dead and in
jured.
The Telephone Girls.
The telephone operators also worked
as they had never worked before, as
may be well imagined from the fact
that on Monday the Marshall Tele-
phone Company did two and one-half
times more business than in any other
one day in its history
And the Newspaper Men Too.
While they do not say much about
1t the newspaper men of the city had
about all they wanted to do. 1t devolved
upon the newspaper boys to start the
work of identification, and it was not
until the bodies reached the morgue
that the real work of identification be-
gan. Up to that time all the dead
known We're the tranmen and those
who had died either coming to or in the
hospital. The newspaper men sys-
tematized the work by beginning at one
end and taking one long row of the
dead at a time. and going thru the
bodies for papers or cards that would
give some clue TO a positive identifica-
ton. The names and addresses, as
they were learned, were written on
slips OF paper and put with the bodies.
Praise For GIadbrok Doctors.
The doctors of Gladbrook are also
entitled TO much praise, together with
those from this city, for their part in
the succor extended the injured. Be-
ing nearer the Gladbrook physici ms
We're on the ground before the special
relief train arrived from this city. and
they had done much to help the injured.
DR.. \. E. Mighell. being the Great
Westerns local surgeon, was chosen
by the doctors as the head of the large
corps of physicians. On the train
bringing the injured to the city each
Of the injured was given num,er
and the ones most in need of hospital
attention We're numbered from ! up.
1t was necessary before the train
reached this city to change the num-
bers, as one patient would begin to
sink faster than some other who, per-
haps. might have been worse off at
first. The numbers We're changed as
the condition of the patients indicated.
and No. l was the first to be hurried
in the ambulances to the hospital
Fortunately for the victims Marshall
town is much better equipped with
service than most cities of
this size and the modern Red Cross
wagons came in handy.
At ST. Thomas hospital, where TWEEN
ty-six of the injured We're taken, nurses
from this city who are practicing out
side of the hospital We're summoned in
the emergency, and six additional
nurses We're hurried here on the first
train from Mercy hospital at Des
Moines.
Many Expressions of Praise.
Many expressions of praise have been
heard from the relatives and friends of
the dead and injured who have been in
the city during the past three days. All
are loud in their praise of the hospital,
the nurses. the doctors. the undertake
ers. and the people in general. Mrs.
Lowery, of Valley Junction, said to the
Times Republican Wednesday evening
that never before had she realized ut
ter strangers could be SO kind and
sympathetic as she had found the peo-
pie of Marshalltown. These same senti-
ments We're voiced by all who were
brought here on their sad errands.