The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-22
Dead Are Crushed and.
Mutilated Almost Be
yond Recognition.
DOUBLED TRAIN
is TELE ESCOPED
Accident on Chicago Great West
crn Indirect Result Of Minor
Freight Wreck Coroner Is
Thrown From Ambulance
and His Back
Broken.

Marshalltown, Iowa. March a1.-aTor,
than two score persons were killed ant
almost as many more were injured to
day In the wrecking at Green Mountain
of two Rock Island trains running owe
the Chicago Great Western tracks from
| Marshalltown to Waterloo. Several o
the injured may die. Practically al
OF the dead and injured were from Iowa
and North and South Dakota.
| Several OF the dead are so horribl,
manglcd that Identification may BIZ
Impossible.
Every surgeon in Marshalltown
Green Mountain and Gladbrook is do
ing everything possible in emergency
hospitals In Marshalltown TO relieve
the suffering OF the injured.
Around the various undertaking
shops the citizens throng with tear
stained faces. each anxious to get some
details OF those who are within.
Freight Wreck the Cnu.e.
A little freight wreck on the Rock Is
land last night at Shellsburg was the
Indirect cause OF the Green Mountain
disaster. The Rock Island was block
ed, and 1t became necessary to detour
over the Great Western tracks.
Two trains. sent from Cedar Rapids
TO Marshallto,wn, We're coupled to-
gether and the two locomotives placed
In front of them. Both locomotives
We're running backwards. The COM
bined train consisted of thirteen cars.
A Pullman was next to the locomo-
tives. Then came smoking car and
day coach. In the latter were many
women and children.
The doubled train was going about
twenty-five miles an hour when 1t
reached a cut five miles from Green
Mountain at the top OF a hill. In this
scut the tender of the front Locomotive
Jumped the track. This threw tho
head locomotive into the sides Of the
narrow cut. The clay OF the sides was
soft, and the enginelwent into 1t and
stopped almost instantly.
Tho sudden stoppage ditched the
second locomotives. and the momentum
of the heavy train crushed the day
coach and the smoking car against the
heavier Pullman. The smoking car
and day coach We're telescoped. and
hardly an occupant of either car es-
capped death or injury.
While the last ten cars remained on
the track. the shock threw the pas
sengers sprawling from their seats.
Conductor William Worst dispatched
strainmen back to flag following
train. Other trainmen were hurried to
.Gladbrook and Green Mountain for
help.
Bodies In Gruesome Rows.
Unin1ured passengers began remov-
Ing the dead and injured. The dead
were taken to an adjoining. pasture
and laid on the grass. "A relief train
from Marshalltown carrying surgeons
and Coroner Jay arrived two hours
after the crash. BY that time the
bodies were laid on the grass in grue-
some rows. The sight that met the
eyes of the surgeons was horrible.
The dead were crushed and mutilated
in{ many cases beyond recognition.
Heads were severed from bodies, arms
and legs were cut off. Here lay IL
bleeding trunk: there. a head with the
agony Of death on the still counte-
nance. M q M 4 n
A second rescue train relieved the
first, which brought load of injured
to Marshalltown.
Coroner jay was fastening In a
Red Gross ambulance to the hospital
when he was thrown to the pavement
as the ambulance rounded a corner,
and rendered unconscious. 1T is be-
,lieved that his back is broken ana
that he cannot live.
The hospital in Marshalltown was
soon filed. Then other buildings We're
pressed into service. q.
4 The removal of the bodies showed
day coach and the smoking car. It is
believed that only two OF tho dead
were In the Pullman.
l, |. So complete was the d destruction Of
car that not a single &up-
right chair was standing. The floor
alone remain ed as mute witness of the
frightful impact OF the car ahead. The
day coach likewise was torn almost
TO- splinters. The baggage car, which
pieces.
81 All Victims Removed.
q BEFORE dark the bodies Of al the ne VIC
Inns we re removed, either to ST. Thom-
as Hospital or to Morfues.
To-nigllt3 the scene Of the wreck : pre- Il,
sented an suncan ny sight. Tho flick,
stren stemea - de
side OF the track. BY morning u t is
expected that the track will be cleared
and train service may be renewed.
The body Of Professor I;W, Parrlssh
at State Teachers College. was one
Of tine first to be taken from the ruins.
Mortally wounded, he was rushed to-
ward the hospital but he died tin the !
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