19 Chicago-Twin Cities; which had been combined into a ten car train with the two locomotives travelling backwards, tender first.

[2] Between Green Mountain and Gladbrook, just east of the Marshall County border, the lead engine left the tracks and hit a clay embankment coming to a sudden stop.

[4] One of the uninjured passengers said, "I saw women in the coach crushed into a bleeding mass, their bodies twisted out of human shape.

"[5] One the day after the wreck, the New York Times reported 46 dead (45 in the main headline, 46 in the continuation on page 2).

[6] No official cause was ever released for the wreck, nor were any charges of neglect made[1] although the crash did result in the introduction of new safety procedures.