Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-21
No. 10 Leaving Here Last
Night Ditched at Green
Mountain
TWO CARS 1ELESCOPED
Had Been Detoured to Avoio
WaShout-Rock Island Man
Aboard is Safe.


Train No. 1e, leaving Rock Island last
night, detoured via Marshaiitown On
account Of the blockade north Of Cedar
Rapids, was wrecked on the county
line between Green Mountain and
GIadbrook at e:15 this morning, kill
ing outright 40 people and seriously
wounding as many more.
Two heavy Rock Island engines
backing up left the rails, telescopIug
the Burlington day coach and sleeper
ColonIa.
The wounded were taken to the
MarshaIItown hospital, two dying be.
fore the train reached here.
JAMES M'NAMARA.
$50 far as is known here Mr.. Nc
Namara was the only Rock islander
aboard the ill-fated train.)
MarshaIItown, Iowa, March 21.--The
dead in the wreck now total as. Pro-
fessor L. w. Parrish Of the Iowa State
Teachers college Of Cedar Falls died
shortly after reaching the hospital In
this city, and an unknown woman was
brought to the moreue here.
No effort has been made to establish
the identity Of the dead owing to the
fact that the wounded needed the at
tention Of the rescue party. The great
est loss of life was in the smoker and
in the ladies' coach, In each Of which
there were about 30 passengers.
HELPED REMOVE ~ BODIES.
Des MoInes, iowa, March -2is---F. w
'cheFry of Princeton, Iowa, passenger
on the Rock Island train wrecked at
Green Mountain, today telephones that
the total dead number az with the In
jured probably as great. "A Miss Young
of Clinton was the only victim IdentI.
fled at that time. Cherry said he help
ed to remove 81 dead from the wreck.
Marshalltown, Iowa, March 21-
Thirty-two known dead, which may be
increased to 40. and "a injured, sew
eral fatally. is now reported as a re-
suit of the wreck of the Rock Island
train being detoured over the Great
Western tracks four miles north OF
Green Mountain, Marshall county, to-
day.
Was Running Backward
The train was a combination of two
Rock Island trains and was being de-
toured around a freight wreck neai
Shellsburg, Iowa, backing with two
engines in front One engine left the
track at a deep cut, carrying the other
engine with it. Both stuck in the clay
bank, stopping the train so suddenly
the sleepers telescoped the smoker
and day coach
The Dead.
The identified dead.
JACOB NAUHOIZ. conductor.
ROSS, fireman.
c. HARTER. brakeman.
ARCHIE PRICE, colored porter.
The injured:
Irene Cowan. Waterloo.
Professor Parrish. Iowa State Teach
ers' college, Cedar Falls.
Fireman Goodenough. Cedar Rapids.
G.. w. Thompson, L. z. Eggleston.
Lizzie Anderson, August Swanson, all
of Vinton.
Florence Winn. Waterloo.
Mrs. Lem Patterson, Louisiana, No.
Nora Wilcox, Louisiana. Mo.
Charles Davis, Minneapolis.
p. J. Swift of the Daily Reporter
staff, Waterloo.
DR.. G.. w. Newman, Mt. Vernon
Iowa.
p. A. Russell. Grand Forks. MINI.
Mrs p A. Russell and A. S. McDon-
aid, Perth. n. ID.
J. Switzer. Waterloo.
L. NJ. Wallin, Washburn, n. d.
w. B. Kennedy, Burlington.
A II. Nagel, Waterloo.
Mrs. Peese, Rheinbeck.
Alfred Abraham, Claremont s. D.
John White, Marshalltown.
Detouring on Grent western.
Marshalltown. Iowa, March 21.-
rhe St Paul-Waterloo passenger train
On the Chicago. Rock Island G. Pacific,
ietouring this morning on the Great
Western, went into the ditch a mile
md a half north of Green Mountain.
Il is reported 25 were killed and a
score or more injured.
Number Cut Down.
Chicago, March 21.-An incomplete
,ficial report at the Rock Island office
lere states FIVE or six persons were
xilIed in a derailment near Gladbrook.
owa, and IL or more injured. A Des
1oines dispatch places the number OF
lead at H.
Washouf Forced Change.
The majority of the casualties are
iaid TO have occurred in the chair car.
\ detour of the train was made neces-
'ary by washout of bridge IL miles
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