River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-11-22
FATAL RAILROAD CASUALTY.
dam Gotzian OF st Paul and His
Wife ana Niece Dangerously In

dam Gotzian of st Paul and His
Wife ana Niece Dangerously In
jured,
Thursday at $40 a. m. party of ladies
and gentleman, numbering about fifty
pc ns, left st. Pau, by the Albert Lea route
lcr trip across the continent. TIE party
was made up of residents of st. Paul, Min
neapolis and Sank Rapids, as follows:
Wyman Elliott and wife, Hiram Van
Ness and vile, William Blaisdell and wife,
o. b. Sturtevant and wife, Miss Mcleod and
lady friend, D. B. Murray, James Stanch
field and wife, @. c. Chase, wife and daugh-
ter Charles CIPHER and wife and daughter
Susie, Max Smith, wife and son, E. Bach
ner, Miss Mary Stark, s. NJ. Whitney, all Of
Minneapolis; @. ". Chase and family. Mrs
E. w. Chase, G. w. Hendrickson, E. A
Bates, Miss Kate Nichols, Charles Brimball
W. A. Messenger, of st. Paul; Mrs. G. NJ
Bennett and daughter, of Sank Rapids H .
Wilson, of Rohfeld; Mr.. Barnum of Whit
Bear.
Early on the morning of the 16.h th
train to which the two special cars bearing
the party were attached met with an acct.
dent at JamespOrt, Mo-, a station on the
Island Il Pacific road sixty-fve miles this
side OF Kansas city. number of passen-
gers in the rear coach discovered that some
thing was wrong. TIE bell chord was
reahed for, but the train was going at the
rate OF about eighteen mi les an hour, and
before halt could be ma de, the rear coach
struck curve, bounded from the track
broke the coupling, and rolled over an en-
bankment about fifteea feet high. The coach
tytr ,cd vNfafcI xy Cxy-p oil
over a second time before it reached the
bottom, the rest of tae train proceeding
some distance before coming to a stand
still.
In the car at the time the st. Faul excur.
siOnists were scattered about, a number be
ing in the end where roaring fire was
blazing and as the terrible plunge YES
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 os fire. The scene that
followed almost b. files description, bu' as
several OF the men at once stamped ont the
tire the danger from that source was over.
The lit killed and wounded, so far
known at the present time, is as follows
knled-Adam Gotzian, st. Paul. skull
crushed.
Wounded-Mrs Adam Gotzan, spinal
injuries and scalp wound; which will
probably pjove fatal. Miss Anna Gotham
nsi1e of Adam GOTHAM, two dangerous
scalp wounds extending length oil head; will
recover. Mac Smith, Valley City, OAK,
badly cut and bruised. Mac Smith, Jr,
cut IN head. Mrs. Mac Smith, injured in
ternallv, scalp wound and face cut.
G. w. Fen6rickson, ex-county superin-
tendent OF SCHOOLS, Sc. Paul. rio broken and
scalp wound w. A. Wessinger, st. Paul,
severe scalp wound and ba ly burned from
Goals from stove; Ernest Bachuer, Mime
apolis, face and head burned; NJ. S. Mich
OILS, st. Paul, agricultural implement man.
uacturer, badly bruised and cut Miss
Kate Nichols, right arm badly bruised; s.
NJ. Whitney Minneapolis. slightly injured.
Adam Gotzian is welt known real estate
dealer OF St. Paul, and is also associated
with Albert Comnck in the retail dry
eoofs business. He is a brother of Conrad
Gotzian, the well-known WHOLESALE shoe
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