Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-02-06
Thirty One Persons Hurt, One
Probably Fatally, When Rock
Island Limited Derailed
Near Walnut, Ia.
OMAHA PEOPLE ARE VICTIMS
Two Coaches in Flames as They
Leave Track and Take
Plunge.
RESCUE WORK PROCEEDING
OMAHA PEOPLE ARE VICTIMS
RESCUE WORK PROCEEDING

ROCK Island tram No I, the Rocky
Mountain Limited, left the track one
mile east of Walnut. Ia. about 10
o'clock last night. The train was Ell
route to Omaha from Chicago. Wal
nut is about forty-hve miles from
Council Bluffs and twelve miles from
Atlantic
Thirty-one passenger were in-
jured, some seriously
The train, which was i'll charge
of Conductor Taylor and Engineer
Schlarp was running about forty-fve
miles per hour when the accident oc-
Cured. The baggage car, combina-
ton smoker, chair car, two sleepers
and observation car went to the bot
tom of the embankment outside the
fence. The smoker and chair car
burned.
A relief train was sent out from
Council Bluffs and a wrecking train
from Atlantic.
The Injured.
The injured were:
Ira Albrecht, oleria, O., back probably
broken: will die.
D. T. stubbs. Council Bluffs, bruised about
head and body.
Charles B. Hudson. 4S25 Erskine, Omaha,
bruised left leg and right side
Thomas F. Parker, 43ll Chicago. Omaha,
bruised
George Harrah, 537 South Twenty ninth,
Omaha. Left knee bruised.
H. l.. Carol. Des Moines, right side in
jured
II. L. Nelson, Diller. Neb.
E. l.. johnson. Omaha, bruised and cut.
J. H. Gesh. Dayton. O., confusion of right
knee.
Ernest Cooper, Pueblo, Colo. shaken up.
L. E. Jerome. Gloversvile, N. Y, bruised,
George W. Smith. Magma, 'Itah, body
bruised and cut.
Gilbert Wood, Indianola, Neb. cut and
bruised
IL. L. Hendricks, Cleveland, o.. head cut.
e. c. Howard, Des Moines, back sprained.
W. V. Sweet. st. Joseph, Mich. left knee
sprained.
Mrs. T. J.. Fisher, Colorado Springs, in
Claude Kiplinser, Brayton, Ia, cut and
bruised.
T. L. Maytag. Newton, Ia, shoulder
bruised.
MIS-, C. G. Saunders, wife Of former SEN
juries not known. ....r
Mrs R. J. Roster, Venice, Neb.; cut about
face.
3. N Read, Chicago; shoulder dislocated.
Barney o'Meara, Long Beach, Cal; head
injuries,
W o. Nelson. Perry. Ia; bruised about
head.
Mrs. J. W. Hill, Fargo, n D.; bruised
head.
Mrs. F. e. Durway, Boston, Mass. I;
Jake schlarp. engineer, Valley Junction:
bruised.
Mrs Edna Kolch. Nebraska City; back
bruised.
A. A; Fisher, Norwalk, O., back injured,
internal hurts.
H. Finney. Syracuse, N. Y. eoilarbone
broken.
Mrs Walter Golch Griswold. Ia, badly cut
about head and face.
Cars Break Apart.
E. L. Johnson, manager of the Gay
ETY. theater Of Omaha, was on the
train, returning from Des Moines. He
said the wreck resulted from spread
rails on dangerous curve.
"The cars seemed to break apart
and roll down the embankment,' he
said to The Bee. "Then the smoker
and chair car caught fire from a stove
in the smoker, completely destroying
beth. All of the passengers were
quickly gotten out, and no one was
injured from the fire, those who were
hurt receiving their injuries from the
force OF the tumble down the en-
bankment.
81 saw fifteen or twenty persons
taken out of the wreckage or crawl
out unassisted. Not all of them were
hurt. One woman who was taken
from the wreck of Pullman and
carried on blankets to the observa-
ton car appeared to be dying. There
were two others who seemed to be
probably fatally injured.
Many in Berths.
Many of the passengers had re-
tired when the wreck threw them
from their berths. They suffered half
clad or only in their night clothes, in
zero weather until uninjured or less
frightened passengers provided them
with sufficient clothes.
There was an utter absence of
panic. Even the injured made no
sound and scarcely groan was heard
as the injured were carried from the
wreckage.
-Four or i've rails were torn from
the north side of the track. The
cause of the wreck was undoubtedly
spreading rails"
Relief work was delayed by the fact
that the relief train from Atlantic was
unable to approach nearer than 800
yards to the wreck, because of the
displaced rails. The injured were oar
ried by passengers, physicians and
members of the train crew to the re-
lief train, blankets from the Pull
mans being used for stretchers.