The Irish standard., 1910-03-26
FORTY-F|vE DEAD
IN ROCK ISLAND
WRECK IN IOWA
c., r. 1. & P. Ry. PASSENGER is
DERAlLED NORTH OF
GREEN MOUNTAIN.
CAUSED BY A SPREADING RAIL
Coach, Smoker and Pullman With hu.
man Freight Are Smashed In
Confused Mass of Bloody
Wreckags.
CAUSED BY A SPREADING RAIL

Wreckags.
Marshalltown, Iowa, March o.
Forty.five people were killed and 40
were injured. many of them fatally in
a wreck four and half miles north of
Green Mountain, Iowa, on a Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific passenger train.
The train, which was consolidation
OF No. 10 from Chicago and No. 81
from St. Louis, bound for Minneapolis,
Mimi. was being detoured over the
track of the Chicago Great Western
road. Running at about 80 miles an
hour in cut north of Green Mountain.
the train struck spread rail. The
pilot locomotive jumped the track and
with terrific force was buried in an
embankment Of soft clay.
A second locomotive, just behind the
first, rolled over, and the impact of the
sudden stop hurled all the rear cars
forward. A coach, smoker and a Pull
man car were smashed to splinters, al
most all the occupants being killed or
injured The superstructure Of tho
Pullman was literally shaved off and
was damned like ramrod through the
smoker and day coach.
The Dead.
The following is the list of dead an
far as identified.
Milton Parish, Cedarville. Mo-
Jacob Nauholz, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
conductor of train No. 21.
j.. - Ross, Cedar Rapids, brakeman,
Archie Price, Cedar Rapids, colored,
porter. -
R. A. Robinson, Cedar Rapids, enRi.
neer of engine 1928.
L.. Parrish, Cedar Rapids, professor
Iowa state teachers college.
Mrs. Lewis, Valley junction. Wis.
wife of DR.. Lewis,
w. w. Eggers. Ellis hotel, Water.
loo. ""'sf
F. D. Lyman, Waterloo. .
N. G. Heacock, West Liberty. stock
buyer.
Anthony Phillips, Waterloo.
George P. Blunt. Waterloo.
Fred l.. Cotton, Washington, Iowa,
Fl. l.. Pennington, Galesburg Ill.,,
member Galesburg lodge, B. of r. T.
Thomas G. Belts, Cedar Rapids.
travelling salesman.
G. G. Ewes, West Branch, half of
head off.
Mrs. Walter Davis, Waterloo.
John cambridge, Hartford, Ont.
f. f. Fisher, West Branch, Iowa.
William Fleck, Vinton.
lngebret l.. Tangen, Northwood
Iowa
Earl T. Main, cashier First National
bank, Williamsfild. III.
Caesar c. o. Hoff, Minneapolis, mail
clerk.
Andrew ]. White, colored, 41S East
Seventh street, ST. Paul
| Jennie Young, Vinton.
Lauren Allschweger, Ogden, Iowa.
G. w. Blair. sedalia, Mo-, died at
st. Thomas hospital.
Mae Hoffman, Waterloo, Iowa.
Man supposed to be A. p. Adams
Willmar, MINI.
John Hamburger, Toronto, Ont.
F. F. Fisher West Branch. Ia.
Louie F. Biebuch, Muscatine. Ia.
Mrs. M. E. Worthington, Cedar Ran.
ids. la.
VIM. Ward, West Branch or Cedar
Rapids. Ia.
Frank Heinz or Hurtz, address un.
known.
Bessie Servis, Washington, la.
John White of Des Moines. pilot on
the train for the Great Western, died
from injuries
Mrs. B. G. Lyman of Cedar Rapids,
died from injuries.
1.-TWO young girls named Brown, from
Waterloo, identified among the dead,
their father, mother and two sisters
Ten women, four men, one OF whom
is supposed from card in his pocket
to be resident Of Dalhar, Tex.
! Two girls, one about five years OF
age, the other about 16.
| The Injured.
The following were among the in.
5uried:
! VIM. Moody, Menomonie, Wis, left
| arm fractured.
| Frank Swanson Wilton, N. D., les
cut.
P. A. Russell, Grand Forks, N. D.
badly bruised.
Mrs. P. A. Russell, Grand Forks, N
D., badly bruised.
A. S. Mcdonald, Perth, N. D., head
cut. D.
Mrs. A. s. Mcdonald, Perth, N. d.
Jaw dislocated.
| l.. M. Wallen, ''ashburn, N. D.. head
cut. collar bone broken.
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