Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-15

sleeping village, heroines and heroes
sprang into being wherever suffering
was endured or peril threatened.
Later. when self sacrifice had be-
come commonplace. the eyes OF these
same rescuers ran with tears at
scenes that are never to he witnessed
except where death Is sudden and
cruel.
The mall train was made up at
Council Bluffs Iowa. George Bronson,
! engineer. and II. O. Grain. fireman.
took charge of the train at Burlington.
| Iowa. The mall train was due In Chi
cago at 1905 o'clock yesterday morn
| ing.
Engineer Dies at Post.
| After being taken to ST Anthony's s.
| hospital Grain told OF the wreck, as
sertIng that Bronson died while hero
ically trying to stop the locomotive
and avert the fatality. He also de-
clared that the operator at Hinsdale
had given the engineer signal to pro-
ceed and that Bronson evidently be-
lieved that the tracks ahead were
clear He said that the heavy fog
prevented him and the engineer from
seeing the limited until IL was too late
to avoid the crash.
Bronson remained at his post and
| was instantly killed. II q. Grain.
Galeshurg, the fireman. narrowly es-
capped death in the crash. He was
thrown twenty feet. His left hand
and his right foot were injured and his
head. face and body were cut and
bruised. He was amonS the injured
brought to Chicago on n special train
and removed to st. Anthony's hospital.
A relief train from Aurora, gather
ing up all the physicians on the way.
was sent to the sceEe. This was sup
plemented by relief train from Chi
cago.
All Dead Wore in Pullman.
The end car Of the Overland Limit
ed train was the Hamlet Pullman
sleeper All the pa sscngers killed were
occupants of this car. The victims
were hurled to the floor and were
crushed to death when the locomotive
of the mail train plowed through the
wreckage OF the coach. The second
car OF the limited was the Mohican.
another Pullman sleeper This was
overturned and demolished and the
passengers hurled In all directions.
None were killed. but every one in the
car was more or less injuerd.
Some were buried under the wreck
age of the end coach. which was car.
ried through the second car by the
locomotive. Others were struck bs
pieces OF broken wood and cut by fly
ing glass from shattered windows.
Blames Dead Engineer.
Responsibility for the wreck was
placed upon George Bronson. the dead
engineer. by Mrs. +. A. Wilcox Of La
Grange. night operator at the Western
Springs tower. who was said early In
the day, before all details were known.
to have been responsible for the disas-
ter
Thoroughly aroused by the report
that she was being saddiei with the
| blame. late Yesterday afternoon she
reversed her earlier refusal to see any
one She made red-hot statement. In
which she accused not only Bronson of
violating an ironclad rule OF the road.
but also the engineers OF two passen-
ger trains Immediately preceding the
fast mail one tho wrecked train and
the other an earlier limited train from
the west.
Ran by Block Signal.
"Three fast trains ran by my block
this morning" she said. The FIRST
one to do so was No. 4. The second
was No. 2, the wrecked train. and the
! last was NO S. the the sas. mail. OF which
Bronson was the engineer
Mrs. Wilcox said she realized the
serious nature OF her charges and that
she made them deliberately after re-
viewing In her mind the events of the
morning.
"The boards were set against all
three OF these trains" said Mrs. Wil-
cox II had no release orders for any
OF them. and the signals said stop to
every ono OF the engineers. Yet all
three Of them ran by at full speed