Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-02-04
WRECK TOLL FOUR
DEAD, FIFTY HURT
Burlington Fast Train Jumps
Track at Cromwell, Ia,
When Rail Breaks.
OMAHA MAN AMONG DEAD

Burlington 4 Quincy. winch ran INTO
broken rail 800 yards east OF the
station at Cromwell, Ia, late Friday
night, left the track and toppled
down a sixty-foot embankment into
frozen slough. Scores OF men and
women, clad only in night clothes,
were hurled through windows and
cut and bruised. They clustered
about on the ice and snow in tenn.
perature below zero, until relief
train with physicians arrived from
Creston one hour after the wreck.
The train left Omaha at $50 p. m.
Not until 1890, nearly three hours
after the wreck, were the last OF the
dead and injured, some OF the latter
badly frozen, removed from the
wreckage.
The dead:
MRS JOHN SASH. 50, creston, Ia
NORMAN r. SCHROEDER. 49, Omaha.
A. b. DAVIDSON, 40, Menah. Wis
MISS MARY HAWKINS. Il, Eagle, Neb,
Probably fatally injured:
Mrs. E. M. Hawkins, mother OF
Mary Hawkins, Eagle, Neb. :.
Mr.. Schroeder was Is years old and
surveyor. He lived with his mother,
Mrs. P. c. Schroeder, at 92O North
Twenty-hfth street
Burlington officials reported that
John p Robertson, Keokuk, Ia, had
suffered a broken leg and other in
ternal injuries and that he was not
expected to live. Other injured per-
sons were doing nicely at the hos
pitfalls where they had been taken, it
was announced.
Dead in Chair Car.
All Of the dead and the more Sc
riously injured we're passengers in
the wooden chair car, which was
partly demolished. Occupants OF
three steel Pullmans were cut and
bruised, but none Of them was fa-
tally hurt. 1t is not known if there
are bodies in the wreckage, but search
is being made.
The engine, the tender and smok-
ing car did not leave the track. The
observation car was derailed, but was
not ditched.
The following Omaha and Nebraska
people were injured:
Mrs. F. M. Hawkins Eagle, Neb; fracture
= e cau, 8. Campbell. as Georgia avenue,
ss%nasy ass sro,s sS Of c.sSs
sl7 South Thirty first street; injured about
head
d W. Robbins. North Loup. shalsnn up
John Mccree seff parker sifre,. omana'
! cut on mead ana snouiuer pru'sed. 80.
H. Wooowlss, sSof North Iwenty-ni'h
sreet. omaha: cut on pack o. mead.
). mcohee, ~ worm Fourteentn' o"Ahs'
pody pfniseo "a, 49, ,., -
4 a. howard, Avs Nor'h Hievohth a'reo-
'nahni pruiseu'
II. a. kosters' nesd CUT;
p, e.ea,hs, nshpy, NepI ny injured
pu. hau smaM chil snshuy pruseu.
Il. =. Dwyer' enehey' Nep'i snouider
pru.seu'
~ a. Woesman' oakiand' Neo'' neAd ana
nmos pfu,sea; $50
sssse nopulnson, riattsmoutnh oruiseu.
,,,u ,s D'i's D'oAe'' A."oo'n' mp anu o4eA
ihjoieo' "a
Miss uelnpler, omAhai nurse IN family OF
ward Sursess. neaa injured "a.
street Omaha: scratched.
". Kerr. Biaken. Neb.; nose and left
ID orv s s7o4 Ersk,ns street. Omaha. la,
arm sprainsd. right ankle sprained. face
Cyl, ! $780, -.
right hip bruised ' '- onAnA
s N: Aver. Omaha; back and WRIST
sp nsprS u,.r ,.,.
Omaha; head cut. hurt Internally. ''''
H. ". pinkard. l4ts North Eighteenth.
% nth.r 81, on re ana shoulder bruised
J. r. Meek 1sum a' t,iun,. ,.o. .n,.,,..
head slightly injured. - N'
Miss Miss Dolly welcher. creston Ia.
O. NJ. Rice. creston +,
A b. Meek, Council Bluffs
= christianson. Chicago.
]. i. DAVIS, I porrisy i'sas II,
J. II. Warren. La Grange, m.
H. \. 4 Ferry oak Park, III,
aermsn MetSlnie s0y sbs s,lI !,
ETA schrader, Now Boston. ILL.,
ars 4 ,. 4; will .,s;u New Boston. Ill.
,, W, Hallack, Davenport. Ia.
br oSnn r. ~, Fopestson' keokuk Ia left leg
Miss Mary casseil, Casper wyo.
Mrs. {. r. Barker, Abba. Ia.
Running Late.
The train, eastbound, was running
twenty minutes behind schedule, but
slowly. The telegraph wires were
destroyed by the wreck and other
wires were crippled by the cold
weather and it was nearly an hour
before relief could be called.
Two wrecking trains were sum
moned. One came from Ottumwa
but it was not sufficiently powerful 10
lift the huge steel cars. IJniniured
passengers, the Cres,on fire denart-
ment, summoned from six miles
away, and volunteers from Cromwell
aided the wrecking crew. which bv
the use OF block and tackle in con.
junction with the wrecker succeeded
in liberating few Of those pinioned