The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-02-06
Westbound Passenger Is Wrecked
Two Miles East of Walnut, Ia. !;
Five Coaches Roll Down a Ten.
foot Embanhment.
wREcKAGE CATCHES FIRE
FROM STOVE IN SMOKER
Zero Temperature Adds to the
Discomfort Of the Travellers !;
Injured Are Taken to Hospitals
and Hotels in Atlantic.

ny Associated Prcss
Walnut. Ia. Feb. 6.--Two score per-
sons were injured. at least one fatally.
when Chicago. Rock Island a Pacific
train No. wcstbound Chicago 20 Dem
yer. was wrecked two miles east OF
here at 1915 o'clock last night. The
train was rounding curve at 45
miles an hour when the rails spread
and five coaches hurtled down a ten
foot embankmcnt into ditch. The
wrcckage almost Immediately burst
into flames. started by stove In the
smoking car while train crew and
uninjured passengers aided those
caught In the wreckage to escape. "A
fire company was called from Walnut
end succeeded In extinguishing the
flames after the smoking car had been
burned.
Face Zero Weather.
Occupants Of the two Pullmans
wrecked were thrown from. the fall
ing ears or dragged out OF the wreck
age by rcscucrs and exposed 20 "A zero
temperature. clad only In their night
clothes. Uninjured passengers gather
ed blankets and garments indiscrim-
inaicly from the pulimans and wrap
ped them about the frightened or In
iured who were insufiicicntly clad.
The injured were carried ON blankets
10 n relief train, which had arrived
shortly after the wreck from Atlantic.
Iowa.
Tho injured were taken to hospitals
anu hotels in Atlantic. UninJured who
desired TO resume the journey were
taken to Council Bluffs and omaha
On special train ordered from COun-
Gil Bluffs.
The Injured.
The more seriously injured
IRA ALBRES1IT. Olena, o.. bao /
pr,hhbiy broken. injuries may he ratai.
MRS. u. J. ROSTER, Venice. Ncb..
hadl, bruised and cut and thought 90
be- internally imri.
MRS. WALTER DOICH. Griswold.
Ia. cat about the head and face. asid
probably injured internally.
JOHN DESt'H. Dayton, a.. knee
crushed and body injuries.
q. y. REED. Chicago. shoulder
broken, cut aud bruised.
BARNEY OTE1AHA. Long Reach.
Cal. head bruised. other Injuries.
\. \. FISHER. Norwalk. a., hack
injured. internal hurts.
Among the less seriously injured
was:
Thomas Cooper. Pueblo. Colo.
bruised.
No Indication OF Panic.
Two Pullmans, an observation car,
a combination chair and smoking car
and a baggage ear were diiched. MI
except the observation car overturned
Two other cars left the track but wera
not ditched.
Passengers commented on the he.
hayinr OF the injured and OF the Wom-
en-. none Of whom gave any indication
oi panic. There were no screams and
scarcely a groan" when the fire from
the smoking car crept nearer and near
cr passengers imprisoned IN tn,
wrockaRc The train crew and q
number 20 the passengers WORKED
| iranucally to save the imprisonc
injured. bat il was the firomen from
| Walnut who. with chemical fire eN
tinguisher. arrived ~ time TO prevent
loss Of life.
Al Of the wrecked cars We're oI
steel and only demolished fiXturci
| furnished fuel.
II was not until early this morning
that the last ot the injured had heci
housed in hotel or hospital In At
| lantic.
Tho work or Transporting the vic
Tins was DELAYED by the fact that tn
track was torn up for several hundro,
yards ana b. was necessary To carr!
the injured to the relief tain on nm
provised stretchors.