Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1899 — DIE IN A WRECK. [ARTICLE]

DIE IN A WRECK.

Burlington Train of t-'even Cars Is Almost Demolished. . Nine persons were killed in two railroad wrecks in lowa, the result of passenger trains running into washouts, caused by storms. Forty-six more were injured and some of them will probably die. The first disaster was near Waterloo on the B„ C. R. & X. road, while the second was near Oelwein. Near Denison, Texas, a freight train jumped the track and the engineer was killed. The wreck on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway was caused by the trashing away of the foundation beneath the track, the rain falling at the time to torrents. There are indications that the rain had been preceded by a cloudburst, which had washed the earth from the track for a distance of half a mile. Being warned by a lurch of the engine of the impending disaster, the engineer and fireman jumped and escaped with slight braises. The engine plowed its why into the earth, and lay in the ditch with the cars of the train piled upon it. The mail car was partially telescoped by the baggage car, which in turn penetrated the smoker. The rear end of the smoker rested on the roof of the passenger coach following. while the day coach and the sleeper had almost entirely telescoped each other. The sleeper in the rear escaped with much less injury. News of the disaster was brought to W aterloo by two of the passengers who had escaped serious injury. Relief trains from there and from Cedar Rapids were quickly on the ground, and the injured passengers were soon extricated from the wreck and tenderly cared for until they were taken to the hospital at Cedar Rapids. . . .—:-™~ - - • - •: It was found that death had resulted in a short time in ail but the case of David I. Hallo of Minneapolis, who lived until some hours after the accident. Mr. Hallo was on the way to Minneapolis to marry Miss Lanra Morgenstern of that city, a niece of Admiral Schley. Many of the injured are in a serious condition, and fears are entertained that the list of dead will be added to.