The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-22
LII Island Trains Leave Track at
ben Mountain, Iowa, a Viii
laqe Near MarshaIltown.
n THE DEAD MANGLtD
BEYOND HOPE OF IDENTIFICATION
Inns Coupled Together Go Into Ditch ;
Many Women and Children Are
4 Among the Victims.

G, w, Paterson, Cedar Rapids, Ia;
W. ]. southwell, Washington, Ia;
e: l.. Burdage, Davenport, la
slightly bruised.
George Downey, Vinton, Ia; right
| leg bruised.
DR., George n. Newman, Mount Yer
non, Mo-; right shoulder bruised.
A. y. Brown, Waterloo, Ia; both
legs broken.
y. J, Jenkins, St. Louis, Mo-; slight
! ly bruised.
The pilot locomotive jumped the
track, and with terrific force was
buried III an embankment of soft clay.
\ second locomotive, coupled behind
the first, rolled over, and the sudden
stop hurled all the rear cars forward.
Wholesale Slaughter.
A coach, smoker and a Pullman car
we're smashed TO spintcrs, almost all
the occupants being killed or injured.
The superstructure of the Pullman was
literally shaved off and was jamned
like ramrod through the smoker and
day coach.
Many passengers were killed out
right; Heads were severed from bodies
and arms and legs were cut off. The
wreckagc was crimson with blood. some
of the bodies being crushed beyond
recognition IN the mass of twisted rails
and splintered cars a few of the pas
sengers were found still living with a
rod or a splinter impaling them in the
wreck. Decapitated bodies were picked
up, and ii was almost impossible to as
sort correctly the dismcmbered parts
The wreck occurred at a point diff
cult of access. Such bodies AS could
l1u 90 {pha ,,,J
adjoining pasture.
First. attention was given To the
wounded, Their cries, coming from
beneath the cars, were pitiful. Fortu
nately the wreckage did not take fire.
The rescue party, reinforced laser Oh by
wrecklng trains carrying nurses and
surgeons sent from the nearest avail
able points, worked all day and until
long after dark. The injured were
rushed TO hospital, several of them
dying on the way. Two of the bodies
were not taken out until night.
Company's Explanation.
An explanation given by the rail.
road was that the train was being
detoured on account of n blockade due
to n freight wreck at Shellsburg, Ia
The section from ST Louis, which left
ST. Louis at 2;l5 p. m. Sunday. and
the section from Chicago, which left at
Alb p. m: Sunday. had been consoli-
dated at Cedar Rapids. They were to
; have been uncoupled and run as scpa,
rate trains at Waterloo The St Louis
section is operated by the Rock Island
in conjunction with the Chicago, Bur
| llngton & Quincy.
Fatalities occurred only in the first
three coaches. The rear coaches all re-
NAMED on the track.
Unlucky Thirteen.
The ill-fated train consisted of thir.
teen cars. The Pullman car from st.
Louis was leading the train next TO
engine No, 1909 Then came a smoker
and n day coach in which there were
many women and children.
About four and n half miles beyond
Green Mountain, at The top Of hill,
is cut about twelve feet deep. 1t
was in this that the tender on the
lending engine suddenly jumped the
track This threw the head locomotive
into the side Of the cut. The clay of
the sides was soft and the engine went
into it, stopping instantly: The sud
den stop ditched the second locomotive
and the heavy train crushed the day
coach and smoker upon tho Pullman.
The smoker and day coach were IN
stantly teIescoped and hardly an occu-
pant of either car escaped death or
injury
While the last ten cars OF the tram
remained on the track. the shock sent
the passengers sprawhng from their
seats TO the floor,
Conductor William Worst was the
first 10 grasp the situation. lie sent
trainmcn back 10 flag train No 4l9,
bound for Sioux City, while others were
hurried to Gladbrook aud Green Noun.
tain.
Wait of Hours for Relief.
The uniniured passengers then began
TO remove the dead and injured
The dead were taken TO an adjoining
pasture and laid out upon the grass
1t was two hours before q relief tram
from Marshalltowp. carrying surgeons
and Coroner +. w. Jay, arrived
The dead. in many cases, were
crushed beyond recognition. Heads
were severed from bodies, arms and
legs were cut of.
Coroner Jay. himself a surgeon was
Fastening in Red Cross ambulance TO
a hospital in Marshalltown, when he
, was thrown TO the pavement as the am
bulancc rounded a corner. He was
picked up unconscious. 1t is believed
his back is broken and that he cannot
live.
The hospital in Marshalltown was
soon filed The removal of the bodies
showed that the worst injuries wero
! among the passengers in the day coach
and smoker. and it is believed that but
: two Of the dead were III the Pullman.
1T was thought the bodies Of all the