| Show RAIL ml SPREAD CAUSING WRECK forty five killed and two score injured j i when two trains go into the ditch Marshall marshalltown town iowa forty five persons persona were killed and forty were injured many of thorn them fatally in a wreck of a chicago rock island and pacific train tour four and a halt miles north ol 01 0 oreen green mountain la ia at a m monday the train which was a consolidation of no 19 from chicago and no il 21 from st louis bound for minneapolis was being detoured over the tracks of the chicago great western road read running at about thirty miles an hour on a out cut north of green mountain it struck a spread rail it is believed A coach a smoker and a pullman rai were wele wel e smashed to splinters almost all the occupants being killed or injured the superstructure of the pull wan inan was literally shaved off and was jammed like a ramrod through the smoker and day coach many passengers were killed outright heads were severed from bodies and arms and legs cut off the wreckage wreck ige was crimson with blood some of the bodies being crushed beyond recognition in he ahe mass of twisted rails and splintered cars A tew few of the passengers were found still I 1 living with a rod or a splinter impaling them in the wreck |
