Iowa
Old Press
Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
February 23, 1899
When people through force of circumstances are compelled to
travel on the Chicago Great Western, they should take out
accident insurance before they step foot on the cars. In fact the
company should issue a policy with every ticket. The daily papers
of Tuesday, February 14, chronicled three bad wrecks on that
road inside of 48 hours. One was a freight wreck at Elma and
another at Almoral and the third was a passenger wreck at
Dyersville. In the first two there were no serious accidents to
any trainmen or passengers, but in the passenger wreck, the
engineer and fireman were badly and perhaps fatally burned. The
record of this road is something terrible and seems to grow worse
as time advances.
[submitter: C.J.L.; Sept. 2003]