The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-11-22
FATAL RAILROAD CASUALTY.

Adam Gotztan of st. Paul and His
Wife and Niece Dangerously In.
juFed.
Thursday At $40 Am. oaEty Of ladies
and gentleman. numbetiA hbeat atty
pc, sons, left st. Paul. by the Albert Leo route,
for trip across the continent. TIE party
was made up of residents Of st. Paul, Min.
neapolis and Sank Rapids, % follows:
Wyman Elliott and wife, Hiram Van
Nen and wife, William Blaisdell and wife,
0. B. sturtevant and wife, Miss Mcleod and
q lady friend, D. B. Murray. James stanch-
6eld and wife, G. G. Chose, wife and daugh-
ter, Charles CIPHER and wife and daughter
Susie. Max Smith, wife and son, E. Bach.
ner, Miss Mary Stark, 8. NJ. Whitney, all o.
Minneapolis; @. W. Chase and family, Mrs
E. w. Chase, G. w. Hendrickson, E. A.
Bates, Miss Kate Nichols, Charles Brimba,l.
". A. Messenger, of st. Paul; Mrs. G. M.
Bennett and daughter, of Sank RAPIDS: H.
Wilson, ofRich6eld; Mr.. Barnum of White
Bear.
Early on the morning of the 18th TIE
train to which the two special cars bearing
the party were attached met with an acct
deaf at Jamesport, Mo-, station on the
Southwestern branch o! the Chicago Rock
Island d Pacific road sixty-five miles this
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 was going at the
rated about eighteen mi les an hour, and
before halt could be ma de, the rear coach
broke the coupling ana rolled over an EN-.
bankment about fifteen feet high. The coach
turned completely over once, and almost
over second tlme before it reached the
bottom, the rest of the train proceeding
some distance before coming to q stand
still.
In the car at the time the St. Paul excur.
sionists were scattered about, number be
ing in the end where roaring fire was
blazing and as the terrible plunge IVES
made they were hurled against the hot
stove, the hot Goals at thesame time being
orced from the stove, setting the clothing
of two of the ladies on fire. The scene that
followed almost battles description, but as
several Of the men Al once stamped out the
fire the danger from that source was over.
The list killed and wounded, SO far 81
known at the present time, is as follows:
k,iled-Adam GOTHAM st. Paul; skull
crushed.
Wounded-Mrs. Adam Gotzian, spinal
injuries and scalp wound; which will
probably piove fatal. Miss Anna Gotziau,
ns,.,e of Adam Gotzian, two dangerous
scalp wounds extending length of head; will
recover. Mac Smith, Valley City, OAK,
badly cut and bruised. Mac Smith, Jr.,
cut N head. Mrs. Mac Smith, injured in
ternally, scalp wound and face cut.
G. w. Hendrickson, ex.county superin-
tendent of schools, St. Paul, rib broken and
scalp wound; W. A. Wessinger, St. Paul,
severe scalp wound and ha"ly burned from
| Goals from stove; Ernest Bachner, Mime
apolis, face and head burned; NJ. S. Mich.
OILS, st. Paul. agricultural implement man
u,acturer, badly bruised and cut; Miss
Kate Nichols, right arm badly bruised; s.
NJ: Whitney, Minneapolis, slightly injured
Adam Go,zian is a well.known real estate
dealer OF st. Paul. and is also associated
with Albert Comnick in the retail dry
goods business. He is brother of Conrad
Gotziau, the well'knovn wholesale shoe
| dealer