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The Tacoma Times
Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington
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The death toll from the Rock Island train wreck near Reinbeck, Iowa, rises to 47 with the passing of Bessie Servis. Many injured remain in critical condition at Marshalltown hospitals. State railroad commission to investigate the derailment of a double-header passenger train on Chicago-Great Western tracks due to a blockade.
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MANY MORE NOT EXPECTED
The morgue and hospital
victims taken in wreck on Rock Island road.
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
DES MOINES, Ia., March 22. -Bessie Servis, of Washington, Ia., died in a hospital at Marshalltown today. She was injured in the Rock Island wreck near Reinbeck yesterday. Her death brings the total list of dead up to 47.
Many of the injured in the hospitals are declared today by attending physicians to be in critical conditions.
It is believed that some of them cannot survive.
(By United Press Leased Wire.)
DES MOINES, Ia., March 22.-
An investigation of the wreck will be undertaken by the state railroad commission. The railroad officials, who have carried on an investigation of their own, have not announced the cause of the accident.
The morgue and hospitals at Marshalltown, where the dead and injured were taken, are crowded with wreck victims. All of the dead and injured were residents of the middle west, and every train is carrying anxious people there in an effort to identify the victims.
Most of the dead have been identified.
The wreck occurred when a double-header Rock Island passenger was derailed on the Chicago-Great Western tracks, which were being used on account of a blockade on the Rock Island tracks.
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Near Reinbeck, Ia.
Event Date
March 22 (Wreck Yesterday)
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47 dead, many injured in critical condition, most dead identified
Event Details
Bessie Servis died from injuries in Rock Island train wreck near Reinbeck. Double-header passenger train derailed on Chicago-Great Western tracks due to blockade on Rock Island tracks. State railroad commission to investigate; railroad officials silent on cause. Morgues and hospitals in Marshalltown crowded with middle west victims.