Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1885 — HURLED TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

HURLED TO DEATH.

k Derailed Train on the Burlington / ' Route Demolishes a Bridge i Soar Creston, lona. The Oars Thrown Into a Creek, and a Number of the Passengers Killed and Wounded. i tCreeton (Iowa) dispatch.) An appalling accident occurred on the Burlington Railroad at a small stream ten miles west of here this afternoon. As the New York fast mail approached the bridge a rail broke beneath the forward cars of the train. The rear coaches were thrown from the track fey the defection. They toppled along on the ties nntil they were on the bridge, 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 children. The escape from general destruction was marvelous, as the cars are badly wrecked and the fall a desperate one. The coaches fell bottom upward into the stream, crushed through tire ice, and, wedging into the chilly water, were.held until the front end of the train, could be pulled out and a relief crew returned. The scene at the return of the front cars was distressing in the extreme. A number of gentlemen whose families were in the coaches, being forward in the smoker at the time of the accident, were apprised of the distress that attended the wives and children 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 eeene inside of the cars was appalling. Many who were not killed were knocked unconscious by dismantled seats and debris, and lay limp and helpless. It was at first thought that .the number of dead was veigr large, but on recovery from the wreck, and on the arrival of medical aid, which was hastily procured by the company, many revived and were able to be transferred to this city, where every attention is being shown them. The following is a list of the killed and wounded: Kxudhb.— Robert Brown,Mount Pleasant, lowa. Mrs. Powell. New Albany, Ind. Mrs. W. 0. Carroll, Saquache, Col. Injvbhs.— A. B. Cole, Grand Rapids, Mich. C. EL Howell, sleeping-car conductor. G. R. Hawkins, conductor. S. J. Lindsey, Creston, lowa. W. J. Davepport, Burlington, lowa. Dr. W. «. Carroll, Saquache, Col. Mrs. M. Farrell, Prescott, lowa. Isaiah Waterman, Corning, lowa. The accident was one,of those unavoidable ones, and was undoubtedly caused by the sudden change in the weather.