The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-11-24
FATAL RAILROAD CASUALTY.
idam GOTHAM OF st. Paul and His
Wife ana Niece Dangerously In
inrnG --

dam GOTHAM OF st. Paul and His
Wife ana Niece Dangerously In
jured.
Thursday at $40 a. m. a party of ladies
and gentleman, numbering about fifty
pels ms, left ST. Paul, by the Albert Lea route,
for a trip across the continent. The party
was made up of residents of st. Paul, Min
neapolis and Sank Rapids, as follows:
Wyman Elliott and wife, Hiram Van
Ness and wife, William Blaisdell and wife,
o. B. Sturtevant and wife, Miss Mcleod and
a lady friend, D. B. Murray, James Stsnch-
field and wife, CT c, Chase, wife and dsugh-
ter, Charles Cypher and wife and daughter
Susie, Max Smith, wife and son, L. Bach
ner, Miss Mary Stark, s. NJ. Whitney, ali OF
Minneapolis; C. W. 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. M.
Bennett and daughter, of Sank Rapids; n.
Wilson, of RiChfeld; Mr.. Barnum of White
Bear.
Early on the morning of the 10Th tia
train to which the W. special cars bearing
the party were attached met with an acct
dent at Jamesport, Mo-, a station on the
Southwestern branch of the Chicago Rock
Island 81 Pacific road sixty-fve miles this
side or 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
rate OF about eighteen mi les an hour, and
before a halt could be ms de, the rear coach
struck a curve, bounded from the track,
broke the coupling, aud rolled over an en-
l,,I-,n,t pEn,,t Rftnau fact hfyh Thin cna,L.
turned completely over once, and almost
over q second time before it reached the
cotton, the rest Of the train proceeding
some distance before coming to 3 stand
still. ...
In the Car at the time the st. Faul exour,
sionists were scattered about, a numbsr be.
ing in the end where q roaring fire was
blazing and as the terrible plunge vss
made they were hurled against the hot
stove, the hot Goals at thesame time being
forced 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
IRE the danger from that source was over.
The list killed and wounded, so far as
known at the present time, is as follows:
k,iled-Adam Gotzian, st. Paul; skull
crushed.
Wounded-Mrs. Adam Golziau, spinal
injuries AND sCaip wound; which will
probably pIove fatal. Miss Anna Gotzien,
Melee of Adam Gotzian, two dangerous
scalp wounds extending length ofhead; will
recover. Mac Smith, Valley City, OAK,
badly cut and bruised. Mac Smith, Jr.,
cut IN head. Mrs. Mac Smith, injured in
t~ernally, scalp wound and face cut.
G. w. Hencfickson, ex.coUnty ~superin-
tendent OF schools, ST. Paul, rib broken and
scalp wound; w. A. Wessinger, st. Paul,
severe scalp wound and badly burned rom
Goals from stove; Ernest EaehaeE, Mime
spolis, face and head burned; NJ. s.. Mich.
OILS, ST. Paul, agricultural implement man
u~lacturer, badly bruised and cut; Miss
Kate Nichols, ricnt arm badly bruised; s.
M. Whitney, Minneapolis, slightly injured.
Adam Gotham is a well-known rea; estate
dealer of st. Paul. and is also associated
with Albert ComnicK in the retail dry
goods business. He is q brother Of Conrad
Gotham, the well known wholesale shoe
dealer.