Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1885 — HURLED TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

HURLED TO DEATH.

A Derailed Train on the BurlfngtOß Route Demolishes a Bridge Near Creston, lowa. Ihe Cars Thrown Into a Creek, and a Number of the Passengers Killed and Wounded, [Creston (Iowa) dispatcb.J An appalling accident occurred on the Burlington Railroad at u small stream ten miles west of hero this afternoon. As theNow York fast mail approached the bridge a rail broke benoath the forward cars of tho train. The rear coaches were throWu from the track by the defection. They topEled along on the ties until they were on the ridge,, when the two rear coaches and the sleeper careened and fell from the bridge into an icy abyss below, carrying down about twenty-five passengers many of whom were women and ohildren. Tho escape from general destruction was marvelous, as the cars are badly wreoked and the fall a desperate one. The coaches fell bottom upward into the stream, crushed through the ice, and, wedging into the chilly water, were held until tho front end of the train could be pulled out und a relief crew returned. The scene nt the return of the front oars was distressing in the extreme. A number of gentlemen whose families were in the coaohes, being forward in the smoker at the time of the accident, were apprised of the distress that attended the wives and ohildren by the agonizing appeals for aid and screams of pain that came from the battered mass of debris. A force of rescue was hastily organized, and, armed with axes, strong men hewed their way in to the imprisoned dead and wounded. * The scene inside of the cars was appalling. Many who were not killed were knooked unconscious by dismantled seats and debris, and lay limp and helpless. It was at first thought that the number of dead was very large, but on recovery from the wreck, and on the arrival of medical aid, which wns hastily procured by the company, many revived and were nble to be transferred to this city, whoro every attention is being shown them. Tho following is a list of the killed and wounded: Killed.—Robert Brown,Mount Pleasant, lowa. Mrs. Powell, New Albany, Ind. Mrs. W. 0. Carroll, Soquache, Col. Injured.—A. B. Cole, Grand Rapids, Mioh. C. H. Howell, sleeping-car conductor. G. R. Hawkins, conductor. 8. J. Lindsey, Creston, lowa. W. J. Davenport, Burlington, lowa. Dr. W. C. Carroll. Saquache, Col. Mrs. M. Farrell, Prescott, lowa. Isaiah Waterman, Corning, lowa. Tho accident was ono of those unavoidable ones, and was nn doubtedly caused by the sudden change in t ho weather.