The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-05-10
TRAIN CARRYING
JOFFRE WRECKED
MARSHAL AND OTHERS or PARTY
ESCAPE INJURIES.
SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED
U. S. Secret Service Men Investigate
Cause Of Accident-French War
Heroes Placed Wreath on Lin
coins Tomb in Springfield.


coins Tomb in Springfield.
Elringham, HIS, May S.-Trayeling
ON new special tsqin the French war
commission resumed it's tour of the
middle west at, 8 a. IN. today follow
ing the wreck last night near Arcola,
which shook up the members of the
party.
The government heaus of the rail
road say that the wreck was an acct.
dent although boy came running
across the field in the darkness just
after the wreck and stated that a
strange man had been seen in that
vicinity just a few minutes before the
wreck
Engineer John Richmond saved the
French party when he put on his
emergency brakes the moment that he
felt the bump, of derailed car. The
train was going forty miles an hour
and the balance of the train might
have piled UP but tor the Richmond
presence of mind.
Wrecked in Corn Field.
Arcola, H., May S.-The special
train bearing General Joffre, Vice Pre-
mier Niviani and other members of the
French mission eastward after Il tour
of the middle West was wrecked in
the middle of a corn field, midway be-
tween ArcOla and Filson, ILL.,, at I 80
last night.
S'veral persons suffered slight
bruises, but none of the members Of
the Free ch party was injured.
The cause of the wreck is not yet
known. Pennsylvania railway EN-
ployees who made an examination OF
the wreck by lantern light expressed
the opinion that the ears We're derailed
accidentally Secret service men be-
gan an immediate investigation.
Travelling Forty Miles an Hour.
The train was speeding eastward
III the rate of 40 miles an hour, after
leaving Springfield, H., where General
JOfrrc and NJ. Vivlanl laid u wreath
on the tombs of Abraham Lincoln late
in the afternoon.
Fifty miles northwest of Tcrre
Hautc, Ind, the tender of the second
locomotive of "dOublc-headcr" sud-
denly left the rails. The baggage car,
Immediately behind, lunged over on
its side and fell crossWise of the rails,
Il tangled mass.
~ Joffre at Dinner Table.
The Pullman car bearing newspaper
correspondents, Immediately behind
the baggage car, crashed into the bag
gage car and left the rails but did not
turn over. The dining car next behind,
left the tracks with a crash. but the
compartment car in which the secret
service men were riding and the OBJ
servatiOn car quartering General Jof-
FIRE and Vice Premier Viviani remained
on the rails.
General JQffre ana NJ. Viviani were
at dinner when the crash came. The
dishes on the table before them were
hurled into their laps.
General Joffre was thrown back in
his seat, but recovered his poise in a
moment, and, rising, pcered out the
window into the gathering darkness.
Neither he nor Nj. Viviani betrayed the
slightest trace of excitement.
Put Wreath on LincoIn's Tomb.
Springfield, Ill.,, May S.-France
bowed at the tomb of Lincoln and
placed thereon a wreath.
And Illinois. home of Lincoln, pre-
sented the representatives of France
two silk flags--the Tricolor and the
Stars and Stripes.
The first ceremony took place in
silence. No word was spoken by Mar
shal Joffre, NJ yiviani and their .assO-
ciates in the chamber of the dead.
Each Frenchman bowed low at the
foot of the sarcophagus and moved his
lips as if in prayer
Lusty American yells attended the
flag presentation in the house ut
formal joint session.
State Pledges War Aid.
1t is part of the legislative record
that Illinois, by her duly elected eff
Gals, has consecrated herself to con-
tribute her fullest measure of assist
ance in the test of Lincoln's creed be-
yond the seaa
They were greeted by Governor Low
den. Lieutenant Governor Oglesby, a
joint committee of the assembly,
Mayor Bauman and delegation of
citizens.