Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-03-22
WRECK VICTIMS
AWFULLY MANGLED
Nearly Every One Killed on Rock
Island Had Both Legs
And Arms Broken.
SOMETIMES LIMBS MISSING.
Bodies Nearly All IdentlHcd-Sccne &C
The M0rguc Extremely
GrucsOmc.

Marshalltown. Iowa. March ga
Two more victims Of yesterdays Rock
Island wreck died during the night.
bringing the list Of known dead TO
a. and making the wreck the most
appalling in the history OF the state
-Four more bodies were identified last
night making the Identified dead 81
and leaving seven still unidentified
Those who died during the night
were j. S. Goodenough, engineer OF
the second engine OF the double
header and Mrs Lizzie Anderson of
Cedar Rapids.
All night a dozen undertakers. some
of them from neighboring towns. were
busy preparing bodies for burial and
seeking Information that would lead
20 identification. The crushed condi-
ton Of the bodies made Identification
difficult IL not impossible In some
cases.
MORE IDENTIFIED DEAD.
The following were today added to
the list Of Identified dead:
William Ward, Westbranch. Iowa.
Lizzie Purvis Washington. Iowa.
Lewis Blebuch. Muscatine. Iowa.
Mrs. d. +. Lyman. Cedar Rapids,
Iowa
A. Y Brown. waterloo. died today.
Moody, Teuominee. wis.
Frank Hintze. Springbrook, wis.
Mrs r. M. Worthington, residence
unknown; body ordered sent 20 ST.
Paul
The clothing had been torn from
many bodies. leaving almost no clue
20 identification from that source.
Nearly every body had both legs and
arms broken and i'm many cases
limb or limbs were torn on entirely
or missing.
william Ward Of Westbranch,
travelling man. was one Of the first
identified last night His legs were
broken and his face fearfuuv crush-
ed Relatives Identified his body by
the fragments OF his clothing. Another
OF the unknown dead Identified was
Lizzie Purvis of washington. Iowa a
description Of the clothing worn by
her and locket found on the body
tailed with a description given IN
telegram from anxious relatives In
quirlng n she had been found amonE
the dead
Tho other body Identified was that
Of Mrs ID. r. Lyman Of Cedar Rapids.
This identification was made BY friends
who recognized the body and clothing
A card found I'm a pocket bearing a
name tallving with the cards and pa
pers found On the debris 81 the wreck
served to identify the body Of Louis
Biebuch ~ Muscatine.
A GRUESOAlE SCENE.
The scene at the morgue Is grueeome
I'M the extreme. The little embalming
room at the back OF the undertaking
rooms proved inadequate Furniture
was hurriedlv removed from "A large
store room adjoining and here the dead
were laid.
Five long rows OF bodies oNtcudns
from the rear TO the front filled tine
room. leaving scarcely passascway Tor
the undertakers.
The debris from the wreck was not
cleared away during the night and
trains this morning are still running
over temporary tracks. The two en-
rines still lie 20 the side OF the track.
Engine No $50, the head one OF the
double header. was almost entirely
buried in the clay bank and lies loo the
same position this morning
II was under this engine that Fire
man Ross OF Cedar Rapids was scalded
10 death
A corrected list OF the dead this after
noon places the number at A. which
includes four unidentified women.