Waterloo, IA Train Wreck, May 1899 - 8 Dead & 41 Injured

WRECK ON THE BURLINGTON, CEDAR RAPIDS AND NORTHERN RAILWAY

FORTY-ONE ARE INJURED.

ENTIRE TRAIN WRECKED.

TRAIN CONSISTING OF SEVEN COACHES, INCLUDING MAIL AND BAGGAGE DEMOLISHED.

Waterloo. Iowa. May 29- The worst railroad wreck in the history of this section of Iowa, occurred at 1:30 o'clock yesterday morning, four miles southwest of Waterloo, on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern railroad. Eight persons were killed and fort [sic] one were injured, some of them so seriously that it is likely the fatality list will be increased. The train, consisting of seven coaches, including mail and baggage, was completely demolished or telescoped. The cause of the disaster was the washing out of a portion of the roadbed by a water spout or cloud burst, part of the damage done by the great storm that swept over this section yesterday evening.

The dead are.
ARNOLD, E. L, Minneapolis.
BARKER, E. J, Hot Springs, Ark.
CARPETER, F. S, Pullman conductor, St. Louis.
HALLO, DAVID, Minneapolis
HOPKINS, -, address unknown.
ARNOLD, W. B. Minneapolis.
WAINWRIGHT, GEORGE, conductor, Burlington, Iowa.
SCHWEPPE, H. R., Alton, ILL.

THE INJURED.
MCLAUGHLIN, W. A. Minneapolis.
BAUER, JOHN, St. Louis.
BASHER, S. H.
BATES, J.H., Toledo, Iowa.
BURKE, W. F., Cedar Falls, Iowa.
CALVIN, R.L. St. Louis.
CARRINGTON, B. W., Chicago.
DURLIN, WILLIAM, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
DRUMMOND, ED. Finchboro, Iowa.
FLEMING, D. W., Albert Lea, Minn.
FOX, A. L., Waterloo, Iowa
FRAZIER, CHARLES, Morning Center, Iowa.
GIBNEY, J. M.
GRAY, FRANK, Albion, Iowa.
HAYDEN, WILLIAM
HOSFORD, S. L., Burlington, Iowa.
HEALE, WILLIAM, Albert Lea, Minn.
JACKSON, J. R., West Liberty, Iowa.
JOHANSON, EMIL, Norwood, N.D.
MATTHEWS, C. W.
MILLER, JOHANN, Hunter, S. D.
MORRIS, A. H., Cedar Rapids.
MORGENSTERN, MRS J., St. Paul, Minn.
MURPHY, JERRY, Castle Doon Ireland.
MEYERS, MRS. M. E., Prentice, Wis.
MEYERS, W. E., Burlinton, Iowa
NEAL, CORA, Minneapolis, Wis.
NORBY, AMOND, Norwood, N. D.
PETROSIC, FRANK, Tower, Minn.
SCHOLLIAN, W. C.
SKANG, A. C., Lemond, Minn.
STEVENSON, MRS. J. W.
SULLIVAN, H., Terre Haute, Ind.
TUNNEL, H. C., Albert Lea, Minn.
URBAN, ANNA
WHITNEY, C. W., Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
WILLIAMS, CLAUDE, Peoria, Ill.
UNKNOWN MAN, from Alton, Ill.
UNKNOWN WOMAN, a Swede, in route to North Dakota.

The dead were nearly found in the through sleeper from St. Louis. This car plowed two-thirds of its length through the coach ahead and the work of finding the bodies of the dead was attended with much delay. At noon, however, all had been removed. The wreckage will not be cleared away for several days, but late this afternoon a track was built around the scene of the disaster and traffic was resumed.

Fort Wayne News, Fort Wayne, IN 29 May 1899