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Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-02 | Page 1 | Three Are Killed in Rock Island Wreck

Type issue
Date 1913-09-02
Paper Salt Lake Tribune
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Three Are Killed in Rock Island Wreck
Type article
Date 1913-09-02
Paper Salt Lake Tribune
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 1
OCR Text THREE K KILLED I ROCK ISLB WICK Thirty-five More or Less Injured; In-jured; Entire Train Rolls Down Embankment. CEDAR BAPTDS, Ta., Sept. 1 Train No. 444, southbound, on tho Decorah branch of hte Chicago & Rock Island, due here at 6 p. m.. was wrecked within with-in two miles of Maynard at 3:45 this afternoon. Tho entire train was derailed, de-railed, rolling down a ten-foot em- bankment. Three were instantly killed and thirty-five others were more or less seriously injured. The cause of the accident ac-cident was tho spreading of the rails. As soon as the engine loft tho rails tho coaches turned over and slid down the embankment. A special train was made up at Oelwein and left Maynard at 7 o'clock tonight, bringing the injured in-jured to this city. The train was running between twenty-five and thirty miles an honV, whicli is an unusual speed for trains on this branch. The Dead. JOHN PROCTOR, Kansas City. I. -HEPWORTII, Oolwein, la. MRS. CORA DE. BOW, Oolwein, la. Seriously Injured. Dr. S. M. Andrews, Oolwein, face cut, injured intornally. Mous Proctor, shoulders injured. G-, H. Phillips, ribs broken. A. A. Crawford, Cedar Rapids, engineer, engi-neer, back injured. Fireman Henniugs, Cedar Rapids, internal in-ternal injuries, A. M. Witters, conductor, Cedar Rap-iris, Rap-iris, shoulders injured, Chauncey Briggs, nrm broken. ?. T. Honsiclc, hip broken. The (lend and injured wore taken to Oelweiu, whore the injurod were distributed dis-tributed amongst hospitals.
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