The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-11-23
FATAL RAILROAD CASUALTY.
dam Go,xlan of st. Paul and His
Wife ana Niece Dangerously In.

dam Gotxian of st. Paul and His
Wife ana Niece Dangerously In.
jured.
Thursday at 8:2o q. m. party Of ladies
and gentleman, numbering about fifty
pc: ,ns, left st. Paul, by the Albert Lea route,
for trip across the continent. The party
was made mp Of residents ofst. Paul, Min.
neapolis and sauk Rapids, as follows:
Wyman Elliott and wife, Hiram Van
Ness and vile, William Blaisdell and wife,
o. B. sturtevant and wife, MISS Mcleod and
a lady friend, D. b: Murray, James Etauch.
field and wife, @. O. Chase, wife and daugh-
ter, Charles Cypher and wife and daughser
Susie. Max Smith, wife and son, E. Bach.
ner, Miss Mary Stark, 8. NJ Whitney. all ol
Minneapolis; O. W. Chase and family. Mrs.
E. w. Chase, q. w. Hendrickson, E. A.
Bates, Miss Kate Nichols, Charles Brimbail
W. A. Messenger, of st. Paul; Mrs. g. M
Bennett and daughter. ofSauk Rapids; H,
Wilson, ofRiuhtield; Mr.. Barnuin of Whitv
Bear.
Early on the morning of the 16.h Il.
train to which the two special cars beariD.
the party were attached met with an acci.
deNt at Jamesport, Mo-, citation on the
Southwestern branch of the Chicago Rock
Island q Pacific road sixty. FIVE miles thi.
side OF Kansas city. A number of passen.
gers in the rear coach discovered that some.
thing was wrong. The bell chord was
reahed for, but the train wss goirg at the
rate 0f about eighteen mi les an hour, and
before halt could be ma de, the rear coach
struck q curve, bounded from the track,
broke the coupling, aud rolled over an cm.
bankment about tiiteea feet high. The coach
turned completely over once, and almnst
over second time before it reached the
oottom the rest Of taer train proceeding
some distance before coming to q stand.
still.
In the car at the time the st. Faul excur
sioniets were scattered about, number BE-
ing in the end where roaring Ere was
blazing and as the terrible plunge Nes
made they were hurled against the hot
stove, the hot Goals at thesame time being
orc from the stove, setting the stotting
OF Two of the laaies na fire. The scene that
f,llowed almost bsffies description, but as
several o. the men o. once stamped out the
hfcf the. t1rnkef that sonrrU was over.
Ehe lit killed aid wounded, so far 3
knO Tn at the present time, is as follows:
k,,led-Adam Gotzisn, st. Paul; stull
crushed.
Wounded-Mrs. Adam Goizian, spinal
injuries and SCALP wound; which will
prODeDly piOve Iatal. MISS Anna GOtzian,
nsl,e of Adam Gotzian, two danserous
recover. Mac Smith, Valley CITY, Dak.,
badly out and bruised. Mac Smith, Jr.,
cut IN head. Mrs. Mac Smith, injured in
ternally, scalp wound and face cut.
g. W. Eendrickson. ex.county superin-
tendent OF SCHOOLS, 81. Paul, rib broken and
scalp wound; w. a. Wessinger, St. Paul,
severe scalp wound and ba.ly burned from
Goals from stove; Ernest Bachner, Mime
spolis, face and head burned; n. 8. Mich.
OILS. at. Paul, agricultural implement man.
u.acturer, badly bruised and cut; Miss
Kate Nichols, right arm badly bruised; s.
N: Whitney, Minneapolis. slightly injured.
Adam Gotzian is Q weltknown real estate
dealer OF st. Paul. and is also associated
with Albert Comnick in the retail dry
goods business. He is q brother of Conrad
Gn;zau, the well-known !wholesale shoe
dealer.