TRAIN DERAILED, 4 DEAD, 14 HURT.

SEVERAL CHILDREN ESCAPE AS TRESTLE COLLAPSES -- ENGINE EXPLODES.

Guttenberg, Iowa, Oct. 11. -- (AP) -- Four persons were killed and 14 injured, eight seriously, when a local Milwaukee passenger train leaped the rails and plunged into a creek bed 14 feet below early today.
The dead:
CHARLES STRAZINSKY, 66, engineer, of Dubuque, Iowa.
FRANK MANN, 55, fireman, of Dubuque.
MR. and MRS. WALTER RUPRECHT, passengers, of Dubuque.
Those seriously injured:
GEORGE MESSLING, brakeman, McGregor, Iowa, arm and shoulder crushed when he jumped.
FRANK MERWYN, conductor, Lacrosse, Wis., legs broken and head hurt in leap onto stones.
HARRY NICHOLSON, mail clerk, Bellevue, Iowa, head and hands crushed.
SAMUEL HESS, express messenger, Dubuque, possible internal hurts.
MRS. WILLIAM RIDDLE, Dubuque, chest crushed and internal injuries.
CLAYTUS NELSON, Dubuque, back injury and face lacerated.
WILLIAM E. UEHR, 18, Buena Vista, Iowa, student, arms broken.
LAWRENCE SAYLOR, 17, Buena Vista, neck and jaw injured.
The wrecked train, a local from Savanna, Ill., to Lacrosse, Wis., included among the 25 passengers in its single coach several school children who boarded the train at Turkey River shortly before the accident.
Rounding a curve enroute to Guttenberg, the train plunged from the creek trestle into the stream bed. The engine exploded and the cab and tender were torn from the boiler as it struck the water. A mail dispatching car and the passenger coach were both derailed and overturned.
In the excitement the less seriously hurt crawled from the mangled cars and began rescue work. Aid was summoned from Guttenberg and nearby towns.

Jefferson City Post-Tribune Missouri 1934-10-11
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Researched and Transcribed by Stu Beitler. Thank you, Stu!