Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — PLUNGES DOWN A BANK. [ARTICLE]

PLUN GES DOWN A BANK.

Fast Train Wrecked nml Twenty-two Persons Irjured. A three-coach and baggage incoming passenger train on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern road -was wrecked six miles north of Burlington. One of the cars, containing thirty passengers, rolled down au embankment, turning three times in 150 feet. Two persons were fatally, three seriously and seventeen slightly injured. The train left Cedar Rapids four hours late and was making up time. The rear car. a Pullman sleeper, jumped the track «n a curve known as Six-Mile Post, where there is a stoop embankment, ending in a dry gully twenty-five feet below. The sleeper turned on one side, but was not ditched. The day coach nearest the sleeper was the one that plunged down the embankment. The passengers were tossed about from floor to roof and back again. To add to the general destruction every seat on the right hand side of the car was torn from its fastening and sent crashing into thelii'iiised and mangled passengers.