Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — Passenger Trains Collide. [ARTICLE]

Passenger Trains Collide.

A head-end collision at Woodbine, lowa, between two Illinois Central trains resulted in the death of Engineer Meinger of Fort Dodge, lowa, and the probably fatal injury of Jame 3 Wheeler, the engineer of the other train. The following passengers were also injured: J. E. Jewell, 517 Greenleaf avenue, Chicago, hip; Evangeline Dahl, nose broken; A. Nichols, colored porter, Chicago, chest crushed; D. L. Pelton, Woodbine, lowa, druggist, badly bruised. The two passenger trains were under orders to pass at Woodbine. The east-bound train, No. 2, the Chicago flyer, was running at full speed on the main track, but instead of being sidetracked, the west-bound, No. 25, dashed into the east-bound at full speed. Both engines were demolished and several of the cars shattered.