Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1905 — PLUNGES INTO A DEEP DITCH [ARTICLE]

PLUNGES INTO A DEEP DITCH

Train on the C., M. and St. P. Railway— One Man Killed—Many Others Hart. Des Moines. In., Feb. 10.—Conductor H. M, Marsh was killed, and twenty other persons were injured, eight passenger cars and an engine piled in the ditch, and a 200-foot bridge wrecked, as the result of a broken rail on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul railroad near Melbourne. There were nine coaches pulled by two engines. The first engine passed over safely. The other and eight coaches following it left the track and piled into the ditch beneath the bridge, which was eighteen feet high. Among the injured are the following: C. A. Morris, brakeman, badly but not fatally; D. M. May,Marion Junction S. D. knee crushed, nose broken, teeth knocked out; D. A. Halligan, Moorland, la., back and kidneys injured; Anna Disinger, Perry, left eye cut, right hand cut; J. H. Wixel, Chicago, scalp wound, right hand and ankle fractured; Edith Winters, Omaha, hips, legs and back Injured; Charles E. Clark, Bayard, la., left leg broken, face cut; Mrs. F. A. Smith. Marion, S. D., back and stomach injured; J. F. Woodley, porter, back badly bruised.

M»jr Result in Two Deaths. New York, Feb. 10.—Nineteen persona were seriously injured in a rearend collision between two trains on the Third avenue elevated, railroad at the 6ne Hundred and Forty-ninth street station in the i rons. One of the Injured will probably die and another’s recovery is doubtful. The man who will probably die is Victor Zinoria, an Italian laborer. His skull is fractured and he suffered internal injuries. Henry Kuntz is in a hospital Buffering from shock and internal injuries and his recovery is doubtful.

Colllilon Kills a Passenger. Dayton, 0., Feb. 10. —As the result of a collision between an in-coming Dayton, Springfield and Urbana passenger car and a stock car on the Dayton, Covington and Piqua line; several miles east of this city, Leonard D. Parker, of Piqna, furniture dealer, sustained a fractured skull and died almost an hour afterward. The most seriously injured is Andrew Trieb, of Indianapolis, six ribs fractured and hurt internally.