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Iowa Great Train Wreck Remembered As Iowa's Greatest Disaster
March 21 1910 derailment near Tama County killed between 54 and 57 people with at least 75 injured as Rock Island trains collided and toppled into clay banks. Cedar Rapids residents among the dead and injured. relief efforts and a 1978 engraved plaque mark the site as Iowa's greatest railroad disaster.
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Marie Vileta
Tama
Iowa
Gladbrook
Tama County
Rock Island
Art Hough
Reelance
Marshalltown
Cedar Rapidians
Rosenberger
Gladbrook Tama Northern
Cedar Rapids
Ross
Jacob Manholz
Ross Charter
Archie Price
R.A. Robinson
J.S. Goodnough
Thomas D. Betts
B.G. Lyman
E.S. Prichard
C.W. Peterson
Marshall County Line
Tama-Marshall County
Green Mountain
Shellsburg
St. Louis
Chicago & North Western
Marshall County
Rock Island Lines
Chicago & Great Western