Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-21

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wounded. The hurry calls for wagons
and conveyances brought teams on the
full run thru the streets. One by one
the bloodstained victims were taken
thru the windows and tenderly as
might be sent away to the hospitals
and the temporary morgue.
A Survivors, Story.
George w. Downing, Of vinton, was
in the smoker, the third car from the
locomotive. He was hurt slightly on
the ankle and pinned down under q
seat "The first knew" said he, 'tthe
car just went squash. The other car
came right back thru into US. Two
met sitting in front Of US were
squashed to death and we were down
on the bottom with the world piled
upon u.s." On the seat with Mr.. Down.
ing was F. G. Fulmer, of Vinton. The
front Of him "were crushed back
against them" 1--WE were sitting in a
double seat" he said. "a man sat fac
ing us. He and the seat came crashing
back on us. and fattened, us to the
floor. Before him two men were sit
ting, one a colored man. There we
lay. under the living man opposite US
and the two dead men who were lit
orally smashed and whose blood rained
down on us thru the wreckage. don't
know how got out, whether thru a
door or window. The first I remem-
Der about getting out was dragging
at the rubbish trying to release DoMn-
ing and the other living man. got
the men free and then others came.
Outside of a scratch on the arm, Mr..
Fulmer escaped without injury.
DIR. Durham, of Sioux Falls, and DR..
J. w. DeVry Of Chicago were badly
shaken by their experiences but other
wise unhurt when Times -Republi-
cant man saw them at the depot plat
from where the mangled and dead were
being taken from the coaches. DR.. Dun
ham was the first man in the Pullman
and he and DR.. DeVry the only physi-
counted forty dead and knows more are
under the wreckage. DR.. DeVry made
the count of dead thirty-seven and the
wounded forty-f1ve. These two men ap-
pear to have been heroic in their effort
to save life and alleviate suffering. DR..
Dunhann says the trains were backing
up at the rate Of about twenty-five
miles an hour when the crash came;
that the arrangement of cars was ideal
for death. The Pullman crashed back
thru the more flimsy cars like paper"
Turn Attention TO Injured.
BY reason of the fact that the In
jured de,nanded~ so much attention the
attempts to identify the dead were
abandoned. 1t was important that no
time be wasted In furnishing succor to
the injured, and further than the
names of the train crew none could be
secured up to late this afternoon.
Doctors Hurried to Scene.
All the doctors Of the city who could
be secured were hurried to the scene OF
the wreck in automobiles. and a dozen
or more responded. Other autos took
men and others Ambu-
lances were prepared in readiness, and
the hospital made ready to receive the
injured. The ambulances that brought
the injured to the hospital went thru
the streets at a breakneck speed in
their race against death. Prof. L. w.
Parrish, of Cedar Falls, died shortly
after reaching the hospital.
Establish Temporary Morgue.
A temporary morgue has been estab-
lished at II South Cente- street, where
the bodies are being Tsceived to await
Other Survivors, Stories.
c. w. Maier, of Walla walla, Wash,
was in lower six berth in one Of the
Pullman coaches nearest the rear of
the train. II didn't realize it was
wreck" said he. "It sounded as tho
! man had thrown a brick on the floor
The carl was in was well back. In
front Of it were the mail and Baggage
cars, ahead Of these, the smoker, then
coach and, Pullman. l looked out and
saw the engine overturned before I
realized it. It didn't feel like a wreck.
: 81 saw some terrible things. One
man had his head completely cut off
above the eyes, another man had been
shocked and driven head first into a
The glass was broken and
vas cutting him where his head rested
IN the sill and under all that awful
weight above. He screamed and cried
'or some one to kill him. I found a
stick and broke the glass under his
.heek where it lay on the sill and the
mans lower jaw with the bone and
I've or six teeth in it, fell on the
ground at my feet"
An old man ran about pleading OF us
% rescue his son. He, the father, Was
BADLY hurt but he pleaded and wept
'or aid to bring his son out Of the
lebris. I saw the son when he was
out later He was r1It enfire-