Show RAIL SPREAD GAUSING CAUSING WRECK forty five killed and two sc score re injured when two trains go into the ditch marshalltown Marshall town iowa forty five persons were killed and forty were injured many bf them fatally in a wreck of a chicago rock island and pacific train rain four and a halt miles north of orden mountain la aa at a m monday the train which was a 4 consolidation of no 19 from chicago and no 21 from st louis bound for minneapolis was being detoured detour cd over the tracks of the chicago great western road running at about thirty miles an hour anji on a cut north of green mountain it struck a spread rail it Is believed A coach a smoker and a pullman cai were smashed to splinters almost all the occupants being killed or injured the superstructure of the pullman was literally shaved off and was jammed like a ramrod through the snicker smoker and day ay coheh coach many passengers were killed outright heads were severed from bodies and arms and legs cut off the wreckage was crimson with blood come some of the bodies being crushed beyond recognition in the mass of twisted rails and splintered cars A few of the passengers were found still living with a rod or a splinter impaling them in the wreck |