Miscellaneous Mishaps

MISCELLANEOUS MISHAPS

Three People Killed in a Railway Collision- Serious Coasting Accident

  Ottumwa, Iowa, Jan. 16.- The Wabash passenger train from Des Moines and a water train of the Ottumwa & Kirkland road, collided four miles west of here at 9:15 o'clock Sunday night. H. E. Peck, the Wabash engineer, jumped and escaped with a slight sprain. His fireman was scalded to death George Miller and Isaac Buddenstein, engineer and fireman of the other train, were killed and buried under the wreck. Several persons were badly but not fatally hurt The collision was caused by a mistake of the Rock Island train dispatcher.