Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-05
PASSENGER TRAIN cOLLiDES AT
HIGH SPEED WITH FREIGHT
NEAR MlDDLEToWN.
CONFUSION IN TRAIN ORDERS
COSTS MANY INNOCENT LIVES
Thirty Seven Others Sent to Hospitals
Some of Whom Will Die-Bis Four
Passenger Train Crashes Into c., n.
G D. Frcieht-Each Road Blames
Other for Accident.

Middletown. o.. July 5.-Three vic
tins of the wreck of the Big Four New
York flyer here yesterday died OF In
Juries during the night. bringing the
total dead to twenty-thr Reports
from the hospitals where many of the
thirty-seven injured were taken indi-
cate a number of these will die. Some
OF them are frightfully mangled and no
hope is held out for recovery.
Officials are trying 10 place the blame
cf the wreck
IL IS known misunderstanding OF
orders caused the frightful catastrophe.
but which train crew was at fault Is
! not learned. Both the Big Four and
G. II. and d., it is said, are endeavor-
| ing TO place responsibility for the ac-
cident on the other
| a 7-months-o old child, alive and un-
| injured, was found in a cornield ad-
Joining the wreck this morning 1t is
! believed it was hurled into the field
during the collision yesterday.
Instant Death For Nineteen.
Nineteen persons me, instant death.
three others were fatally injured and
several more We're seriously hurt when
! the Cincinnati section of the Twentieth h
| Century Limited train on the Big
! tour railroad crashed into the second
section OF freight train on the Gin
| cinnati, Hamilton and Dayton road
| here late yesterday. The collision oc-
| CURED on the Cincinnati Hamilton and
Dayton tracks. Eighteen of those who
were killed were passengers, the nine
teenth victim being a member Of the
passenger train crew. Many persons on
! the passenger train who escaped death
or dangerous injury sustained broken
limbs and ribs and other hurts.
! The dead:
Baker. II. p. Cincinnati.
Smith. II. a.. Dayton.
| Kirk. J. Smith. Dayton.
| Frohle. George. Dayton.
| Golden, Frank, passenger train
| brakeman.
Cooley, John w, McCutcheonsvi'le
| Ohio
, Daubennire. Miss Fay H., Pleasant
vile. Ohio.
! Snyder. Ray B., London. Ohio.
/ Garrigus, \. S.. Columbus. Ohio.
| Van Horn, Richard. Dayton. ohio.
! Moulton, Charles H.. Youngstown.
| Ohio.
Bodey. Mrs Jessie J.. Dayton Ohio
Iun. KIng Yen, Chinaman, Colum-
! bus. Ohio.
/ Grant. C. X ,-pringtiell. Ohio
one urrnenrified woman. about 40
| years Old.
| clothing.
MI Gil .aI to lDp
! from Dayton
Kirk. Mrs. j. Smith. Dayton. Ohio.
List of the Injured.
A list of the injured, so far as re-
! ported follows:
I smith, Mrs. II A, Dayton Ohio. leg
( cut OFF
Jennings. Peter. engineer passenger
| train. seriously hurt.
! I.amm. W. p. fireman passenger
train. internally injured. expected &c
die
wald, George. train pilot on passen
ger seriously hurt
! Garrigus Samuel Wayne, Columbus
! Ohio, arms and ribs broken.
White John j.. Dayton. slightly hurt
;lenneny. James l.. n. Louisville,
Ky right leg and ribs broken.
E:rskire. w. s.. Memphis, Tenn. back
injured: seriously hurt.
I.itzey. VIII. Harrodsburg. Ky. badly
burned. may die.
| Cubanissy. oscar. colored. Cincin-
! natl head and sides injured.
!, Neisner William. Cincinnati head
! elbows AID shoulders injured; seriously
hurt.
White. W. d. Cleveland; head cut.
Dayton. A. L.. Latonia, Ky: cond-
| tion serious.
Ferguson. Jerry. Dayton; side slight
l., hurt.
! Lindy. Mrs. Emma, Caledonia. Ohio;
thighs and hips injured: condition ser.
ious.
Rankin. John. Springfield. Ohio;
right leg dislocated. ~, Injured
Doty. c. e. Belle ro.;:s,ine, Ohio;
leg broken.
Edwards. Frank, Lator!ta, ny.
Hallor. Will. Dayton.
Davis, Joe. Cleveland.
| Greenwood Wilbur. Sprin giiell, Ohio
Hngan, Jasper. Hamilton.
Limited Hits freight.
The freight train was attempting *
make siding to give the passenger
train clear track, when the flying linn
tied. travelling at the rate OF nifty mile:
an hour. flashed around a curve anc
crashed into il
The Big Four. Cleveland. Cincinnati
Chicago and st. Louis train had beer
detoured to avoid a blocked track or
that road at Genoa a few miles soutf
of here, caused by freight wrecl
earlier in the day. In addition to it.
i regular crew it carried pilot engineer
of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Daytor
Road, who was tractically in charge
of the train.
A misunderstanding OF orders causet
the disaster, which was one OF The
/ worst that this section of the country
! has ever known. According to railroad
officials, I'iiot Engineer Se.>-se W>.-
lhad received orders to walt at Pos