Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-12-25


side, with couple Of doctors work.
ing on me. Afterward / went back to
look at the damage done by the en-
CINE of No. 0. She had smashed into
the rear end of the Pullman with such
force that the rear truck was showed
completely to the front end of the
car. The women's room and the
smoking room were crushed like egg
shells, and if any one had been inside
they certainly would have been kill
ed"
Fred Waltham, wealthy Sedgwick
county, Kansas. farmer. said: II was
just on my way to the back. platform
i of the car when the engine struck.
was thrown clear to the other end of
the car, alighting on my head. Dad
gone three feet further would have
met the front end Of the engine boiler
and my finish.
| "The people in the car were so badly
stunned that they could not call for
help. Many of the women in the car
who had suffered only slight bruises,
were SO badly frightened that they
could not walk and imagined that they
were injured By the time that we
got to Council Bluffs all Of the peo-
/! pie had recovered their composure.
Most Of the people landed in the aisle.
The bruises were caused by the peo-
pie being hurled against the seats in
front of them. In the day
coaches about the only bumps re-
ceived were from heavy baggage that
fell off the racks on the passengers"
4, Praises Missouri Valley Doctors.
| o. ). Moran, Washington, S. D., who
in company with his wife and five
small children. were slightly cut and
bruised, stated: "The doctors at Mis-
souri, Valley were certainly on the job
quick. l don't believe that it was ten
minutes after the wreck until most Of
the people were receiving emergency
treatment at the hands of the doctors
there" Moran and his. family were
en- route to Sylvia, Kas., where he has
purchased farm and is going to make
his home.
The Mercy hospital was busy
place Friday afternoon. Physicians
were busily engaged in taking X-ray
pictures of bones that were believed
to be fractured, and in preparing
dressings for those that had been cut
Most of the cuts were received about
the eyes. w. G. Goodrich, claim agen,
for the Northwestern, interviewed al
of the injured, taking their names
, and addresses. The Northwestern
line then provided all of the passen
gers with taxis to convey them to tn.
; depots and the trains that were t.
take them to their final destinations
All of the injured passengers wer,
: given free dinners at the Mercy hos
pital at the expense Of the North
J, western line.
Mr.. Goodrich stated that the switch
r permitting the fast mail to crash in
J, to No. 215 was opened by that trail
: accidentally when it ran over al
e electrical device at the upper end O
t the "Y."
]. A. D. Dornan, conductor Of tn
d mail train, said that the switch wa
f open when his train came around tn
+ bend and that there was nothing t,
d indicate on which track the passen
: ger train was standing.
e When the crash came it resulted il
half of the cars on the mail train be
it ing uncoupled and remaining behint
e the air brakes automatically stopping
# the train. The engineer and the fire
Y man of the mail train both j1mpe
IS when they saw that crash was in
lie evitable. Brakeman j. Bernard q
= No. 215, was thrown through wiz
t. wod and landed in snow drift thirt
lie feet away from the train, unhurt. n
= was blackened from head to foot. b