Arizona republican., 1910-03-22
Forty Five Killed h Wreck
 In Southern Iowa FORTY WERE WOUNDED
Passenger Trains Coupled Together Were Running Backward When Disaster Happened Many of the Dead Mangled Beyond Recognition

Marshalltown. Iowa. March 2l.- Forty-five were killed and forty were injured when two Rock Island through trains. coupled together left the rails It Green Mountain. Iowa, seventeen miles north Of this place, today. Thir- " Of the dead have been identified. and the unidentified are at Marshalltown. many so horribly mangled that identi- fication may be impossible
 The railroad branch Of the Y. NJ. C. A and an apartment house near the chicago & Great Western depot have been converted into hospitals for the injured.
 The Rock Island trains, No l9 from Chicago 10 the Twin Cities. and No. 2l from St Louis for Minneapolis. were running coupled together over the Chi cagO Great Western tracks, as the Rock Island track had been blocked by a freight wreck last night
 At MarshalltoWn the trains were coupled together. As there is no turn table at Reinbeck. where the trains were to have been put on the Rock Is land main line, both locomotives were coupled in front of the combined train. and left here running backward. The train consisted of thirteen cars. A Pullman from St Louis was leading the train next to the engine. Then came d smoker and a day coach in which were many women and children
 About four and half miles beyond Green Mountain. at the top Of hill. is q cut twelve feet deep. The tender of the leading engine suddenly jumped the track This threw the head engine into the side of the cut. The clay was soft and the engine stopped instantly. The sudden stop detached the second locomotive and the heavy train crushed the day coach and smoker up on the Pullman. The smoker and the day coach were instantly telescoped and hardly an occupant in either car escaped death or injury.
 While the last ten cars remained on the track, the shock sent the passen- gers Sprawling from their seats to the floor. Conductor William Worst was the first to grasp the situation. He sent trainmen to flag train No. 49l. bound for Sioux City, while others were hurried to Glad Brook and Green Mountain.
 
 the dead and injured The dead were taken [" an adjoining pasture and laid on the grass. Ii was two hours before relief train from MarShalltOwn. carrying surgeons and a coroner. ar rived
 The dead. in many cases. were crushed beyond recognition. Heads were severed from bodies. and arms and legs were cut. off Coroner Jay. himself a surgeon. was hastening in q Red Cross ambulance tO the hospital at Marshalltown when he was thrown t"the pavement as the ambulance rounded d corner. He was picked up unconscious IL is believed that his back Is broken and that he cannot live
 st Thomas hospital in MarshalltOWn. was soon filled and other rooms were pressed into service. The removal of the bodies showed that the worst in juries were among the passengers in the day coach and smoker It is, be- lieved that but two of the dead were in the Pullman.
 lt was thought that the bodies of all the victims had been removed from the wreckage before nightfal, but late to- night two others were found in the de- bris. By morning it is expected that the tracks will be cleared and train service resumed.
 Professor L. w Parrish of Cedar Falls, a teacher of economies in the state teachers college. was one of the first to be taken from the ruins He was mortally wounded and died in an ambulance Dr. J. W. Devrey of Chi cago and Dr. Durham of Sioux Falls physicians, were on the train. AL though injured themselves. they worked hard tS succor others James McNamara, assistant head clerk of the Modern Woodmen of America. of Rock Island. was in the smoker, but he es- capped uninjured e. w Moier of Walla Walla. who was in lower berth in the Pullman near the rear of the train said: "I didn't realize it was a wreck I bounded as though a man had thrown II brick on the floor The car I was ir was well back In front of it were the mail and baggage cars. and ahead of these were the smoker and Pullman l looked out and saw the engine over turned before l realized it.
 II saw some terrible things One man had been driven head first into a window The glass was broken. cut ting him where his head rested on ths sill. and under all that awful weight above he screamed and cried for some one to kill him. l found q stick ant