Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-22
BODIES NUMBER 45
Victims of Rock Island Wreck
Terribly MangIed.
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Terrifying Experiences as Related
by the Survivors.
THREE COACHES TORN TO BITS
Many Of the Passengers Apparently
Killed Outright, While Others
Suffered in Agony.
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THREE COACHES TORN TO BITS

MARSHALLTowN, Iowa, MARCH 22.-
Three more victims Of yesterdays Rock
Island wreck died during the night, bring
ing the list of known dead 10 forty-four.
and making the wreck the most appalling
in the history of the state. Ten more
bodies were identified during the night.
making the identified dead forty-four, and
leaving one still unidentified.
All night a dozen undertakers, some of
them from neighboring towns, were busy
preparing bodies for burial and seeking
information that would lead to fdentifica-
ton. The bruised and crushed condition
of the bodies made Identification seem
almost impossible in some cases.
The clothing had been torn from many,
leaving almost no clue to identification
from that source. There was hardly a
body but what had both legs and arms
broken, and in many cases one or more
Of these members torn of entirely and
some entirely missing.
The little embalmng room at the back
of the undertaking rooms proved utterly
inadequate for the demands made upon
1t. Furniture was hurriedly removed from
a large storeroom adjoining and here the
dead were laid. Five long rows of bodies
extending from the rear to the front
IlllGQ the TOOHS leaving scarcely pdSSdSI
for the undertakers.
The debris from the wreck was not
cleared away during the night, and trains
this morning were still running over tenn
porary tracks.
List of the Dead.
The list of the dead, including those
identified last night, follows:
]. s. Goodenough, engineer Of the
second engine Of the double header;
Mrs. Lizzie Anderson of Cedar Rapids
William Ward. West Branch: Lizzie
Purvis, Washington. Iowa: Mrs. D.F Ly-
man. Cedar Rapids; Louise F. Biebuch.
Auscatine. Iowa: Milton Parish. Cedar
vtlle, Mo-; Jacob Nauholz. conductor; A.
Ross. fireman: Ross Charter. brakeman;
Archie Price. colored porter: r. A. Rob-
inson. engineer; l. w. Parrish. Cedar
College; Mrs. Lewis, Valley Junction.
Iowa: NJ. w. Eggers, Waterloo, Iowa; F.
d: Lyman. Waterloo: N. c. Heacock.
West Liberty. Iowa; Anthony Phillips.
oo a Cotton sosss nups Iaws
II. L. Pennington. Galesburg, H.; Thos.
G. Belts. Cedar Rapids: C. G. Ewes,
West Branch. iowa: Mrs. Water Davis.
Waterloo; John cambridge. Hartford.
William F1eck. vinton. Iowa; Igebret L.
Tangen, Northwood. Iowa; Earl T. Main,
banker, wiiliamsfield, III: Caesar c. o.
Hon. Minneapolis; Andrew J. White.
colored, st. Paul; Jennie Young. vinton:
Lauren Allschwaser. Ogden. Iowa: G: w.
Blair. Sedallia, Mo-, died at hospital:
Mae Hoffman. Waterloo, Iowa; John
White. Des Moihes. train pilot; Mrs b.
@. Lyman. Cedar Rapids; Mrs. e. NJ.
ward. West Branch or : Cedar Rapids:
A. x. Brown. Waterieo: ---- Moody.
Nenominee, WISH Frank HlntE, Spring
brook. Wis: Mrs. e. n. Worthington,
residence unknown: body ordered sent to
st. Paul
Among the two score injured. most Of
whom live In Iowa. are Irene C0wan.
Waterloo. Iowa; @. w. Thompson. VIM
ton, Iowa; Florence Winn. Waterloo.
Iowa: Mr.: l. Patterson. Louisiana: Mo-;
Norsa Wilcox. Louisiana. Mo-: Charles
Davis. midland. MIMI. probably fatal: p.
J.. Swift. reporter. Waterloo, Iowa. seri-
Gus: DR.. G. w. Newman. Mount Vernon.
Mo-: p. A. Russell and wife, Grand Forks.
MINI: A. 8. Mcdonald and wife. Perth.
Iowa; Miss Olga Swanson. Vinton, scalp
torn nearly on: william Moody, Menomi-
nee. Wis; c. J. Lamb, Chicago, and N.
Jenkins. st. Louis.
many Killed Outright.
A coach. a smoking car and Pullman
car were smashed almost to splinters,
nearly all the occupants being killed or
injured. The superstructure Of the Pull
man was shaved on and damned like a
ramrod through the smoking car and the
day coach.
Many passengers were apparently killed
outright. but the suffering among the In
3rred was terrible. Arms and legs were
cut OF. The wreckage was almost GRIM
son with blood, some Of the bodies being
81 hv tbo 1o
OF twisted rails and splintered cars. A
few Of the passengers were found still liv-
ing with q rod or a splinter impaling
them In the wreck.
Decapitated bodies were found, and II
was almost impossible to assert the dis
merrbered parts.
The wreck occurred at a point which
was dif1cult to reach with prompt re-
lief. Such bodies as could be pulled out
were stretched out in an adjoining pas
ture.
The body Of Prof l.. W. Parrish Of
Cedar Falls teacher in economics at the
State Teachers College. was one OF the
first to be taken from the ruins. Nor
tally wounded. he was rushed toward the
hospital. but he died in the ambulance
Milton Parrish Of Cedarville, Mo-, was
also a victim. DIR. j. w. Dewey of Chi
cago and DR.. Durham Of Sioux Falls
were physicians on the train. Although
injured themselves, they turned their at
tention to others and worked faithfully
Survivors, Terrible Experience.
c.. w. Moier of Walla Walla, Wash.
was in lower berth in one OF the Pull
man coaches near the rear Of the train
II did not realize 1t was a wreck
said he. 1T sounded as though a man
had thrown a brick on the floor In
front of our car were the mail and bag
gage cars. Ahead Of these the smoker
and Pullman. / looked out and saw
the engine overturn. It did not feel like
a wreck. l saw some terrible things
One mans skull was cut of above the
eyes. Another man had been driven head
first into a window. The glass was
broken and was cutting him where his
head rested on the sill. He screamed
for some one to kill him. found q stick
and broke the glass under his cheek
where 1t lay on the sill. and the mans
lower jaw. with the bone and FIVE or
six teeth in it. fell on the ground at my
feet.
There was an old man running about
pleading for US to rescue his son. He
was badly hurt himself. I saw the son
later when he was brought out. He was
cut in two. We had the mangled body
kept away from the father"