Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-24
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8. F. Graham, of Hermon, III, Son.
in-Law, Reaches City Fearing
Mother inLaw victim-Menom-
: onie, Wis, Men identify Moedy and
Hintz Positively.

viewed the body of the unknown wom-
an in the morgue and pronounced it
that OF his wifes mother, Mrs. Annie
Robertson, of Galesburg. Ill.
This completes the exhaustive work
of establishing the identity of the for
ty-aine dead, many OF whom had Moth
ing on their person to indicate who
they were. This was especially true
of the women.
Mrs. Robertson was 5S years old. and
was or her way to Minnesota for
visit. The identification was brought
about by James E. Davis, a Galesburg
attorney. telephoning at noon yesterday
10 Mr.. Graham. and telling him of his
fears that Mrs. Robertson was on the
wrecked train. Davis figured that such
was the case from the fact that Earl
T. Main. OF Williamsheld, Ill, who was
killed. was a passenger on the same
train that Mrs Robertson had taken.
When this information reached Mr..
Graham he took the first train for this
CITY reaching here this morning.
Mrs Robertson was the mother OF
seven children. She had been married
three times. and the children We're all
by the first and second husbands. They
are Harry Myers, a medical student in
the Chicago College of Physicians and
Surgeons; Nellie Myers, Il professional
nurse living in Chicago: Mrs. Emma
Marshall, wife Of DR.. Marshall. Strong
hurst. III: Mrs. Lena Peterson, OF
Joliet. III: Mrs Belle Graham. and
Mrs Ora Johns, OF Hernon. H.: and Il.
J. Calison, of Flora, III. Mrs. Robert
sons body was sent to Galesburg, via
Cedar Rapids. this afternoon, in charge
Of Mr.. Graham.
Complete ldentifcations.
The bodies of No. and No. IS,
identified from descriptions furnished
by William Moedy, one of the injured
who is in the hospital. as his son.
John Moody. and Frank Hintz.
neighbor and friend. were positively
identified Wednesday night. The ar
rival of j. r. Mathews, mayor of Me-
nomonie, Wis, and John Moody, city
assessor of Menomonie, for the past
twenty-five years. established the
identifications as correct. John Moody
Of Menomonie, is a brother of William,
and the dead man was his namesake
The Moedys and Hintz had been to
Dalhart Tex, where they had closed
a $4,000 land deal. John Moody was
1 80 years old and single, and lived with
his father on farm five miles east
of Menomonie, at the village of Red
Cedar. Hintz, who was A years old,
lived in the adjoining village Of Spring
Brook.
Mayor Mathews said that Mrs. Will
liam Moedy was quite i'll Of pneumonia,
and the shock of her sons death and
the injury to her husband would
doubtless be severe The members of
the Moody family are the parents and
four daughters, Ida. Mamie, Olga, and
Addie John, the young man killed, was
the only son. 4
HINTS family is composed Of a wife
and eight children. ranging in age
/ from a daughter who is - to babe
s months old. Hintz was a well-to-do
farmer. and owned 200 acres of land
worth $50 per acre.
Mayor Mathews and Mr. John Moody
accompanied the bodies of young Moe
dy and Hntz to Menomonie, leaving at
| 1897 today via ST. Paul.
All Bodies Shipped.
With the shipment of Mrs. Robert
sons body this afternoon the morgue
was emptied The body of Charles E.
Davis was sent TO Minneapolis by ex-
press Wednesday night; Mrs. Arthur
Notes body was sent to Muscatine
Wednesday afternoon, in charge of the
| husband and mother; and the body Of
DR.. May Lewis. of Valley Junction, was
taken to Lacrosse, Wis, Wednesday
night, in charge of George Lowery and
wife, of Valley junction, son and
daughte in law, of DR.. Lewis
Two Of Injured Serious.
| Two of the injured at St. Thomas
| hospital continue to be in a serious
condition. They are L. NJ. Wallin, of
Washburn, \. D., and DR.. G.. w. New
man, Of Mt. Vernon, Mo. 1t was said
ct the hospital Wednesday night that
it was hardly expected Mr.. Wallin
would survive the night, but this morn
ing he was somewhat better.
While the injuries Of DIR. Newman
are not especially serious in them
selves. the doctor is aged, being about
70 years old. He is suffering principally
from shock.
Paul Swift and s. Switzer. of Wat
erloo. are both doing nicely.
Mrs. W. H. Teate, of Reipbeck. while
doing as well as could be expected, is
etill suffering greatly from the pain
caused by. her injuries. An examina-
| ton maze wednesday afternoon OF
Mrs. Teats' injured eye shows that
the sight is not destroyed 1t was
feared at first that the eye was per-
manently injured.
The other injured are all making
satisfactory progress toward recovery
Mayor Mathews Knew Miss Purvis.
Mayor Mathews. Of Menomonie, Wis
who was in the city Wednesday even
ing and part of today, felt very deep
ly the death Of Bessie Purvis. of Wash
ington, Iowa, who was a student a
Stout Institute, at Menomonie, do
mesic science ard manual training
school land the best in the United
States asserts the mayor. She and 9
few other girls were often at my home
and with my children. When the frs
news of the wreck reached Menomonit
the landlady where Bessie boarded came
hurTying to me with the Information
. that Bessie must have been on tina,
train. told her to wire Washington
and the reply came back that she hat
been killed. The poor little thing has
gone home 70 visit brother who,r