St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-10-05
KILLED IN A WRECK.
Three Cars Become Detached From Cir
Gus Train on q Grade Near
Fergus Falls,
Crashing Into the Second Section and
Killing Five Persons, Seven Others
Being Injured.
BOGUS Prince Zachoroff of New York
is Followed Across the ocean
and Nabbed.
The Cause CeIebre, the Belt divorce
Case in washington, Drawing
toa Close.
Circus Train wrecked.

Special 10 the Globe
FERGUs FALLS, Mimi, Oct. "A ter
nble accident occurred OH the Black Hills
division of the Northern Pacific road this
morning at o'clock. John Robinson's cir
Gus and menagerie left Wahpeton, Oak, in
two sections, and when near the summit of
the heavy grade about six miles west of this
city the caboose and two sleepers of the
first section. containing about one hundred
and fifty employees of the show, became de-
tached, going down the grade at fearful
speed, which the brakes were insufficient to
check The engineer of the rear section,
which was but little more than mile in
the rear, saw the impending danger and set
the brakes so tightly they could not be
readily released. Otherwise, the engineer
would doubtless have been enabled to back
his train and avoided the catastrophe. The
three cars were smashed beyond recognition,
and beneath the debris over one hundred
human beings were completely buried.
People in the rear section Immediately com
menced the work of rescue. Word was
sent TO this city for help, which was imme-
diately responded to by Supt. Vining and
. assistants, with wrecking train. The
work OF rescue was a Iaborious one, the
ynight being extremely dark and very cold.
There were five killed and six seriously
wounded, two Of whom will probably die,
besides about twenty more who are more or
less injured. One man was rescued unin-
jured, wedged in the debris between two
dead ones. Those killed were:
GEORGE kRANZ, Cincinnati.
ROBERTS, joined the circus at Wadeua,
MINI.
CHARLES WALLACE, joined the circus at
Portland, Or.
JAMES WILSON, train watchman, Cincin-
natl.
SAMUEL BLAIR, joined at Colfax, W. T.
The wounded are:
WILLIAM WINFIELD, Appomattox, Va,
It is feared fatally.
JAMES ECCLES, Nova Scotia, shoulder dis
located and internal injuries.
i. IIEGLEH, Cincinnati, leg badly hurt
JAMES COLEMAN, cOlOred, injured in
ternally.
HENRY ROISE, Norwich, n. Y, slightly
injured.
a. TURNER, Iowa, slightly injured.
JOE BROWN, feet mashed.
WILLIAM MURRAY, colored, head bruised.
\ hospital car has been wired for from
Drained which will probably be here soon.
The coroner's jury viii be impaneed to-
morrow. This seems to an unavoidable
accident and no one to blame, the en-
ployes of the road doing their utmost to
avert the catastrophe.
THE INJURED CARED FOR.
Special to the Globe.
BRAINERD, Mimi, Oct. 4-Supt KIM
berly of the Minnesota division, Assistant
Superintendent Root and Chief Surgeon
Bigger, left here at o'clock this morning
with a wrecking train for the scene of the
railroad disaster, between Wahpeton and
Fergus Falls. The wrecking crew got back
about $50 this evening, bringing with them
the injured men. seven in number. None,
however, are seriously injured. several being
able 10 walk from the station 10 the North
ern Pacific sanitaTiUm. All who were killed
We're teamsterS and laborerS in the employ
of the John Robinson show, which was en-
route from WahpetOn to Fergus Falls. The
railroad officials greatly regret the una
VOidable loss of life, and report that the
damage to property is light, under the cir
cumstanceS. The injured men are receiv-
ing every care and attention. The show
was billed to exhibit at Fergus Falls to-
morrow and at Brainerd on Tuesday. AS
there Is no damage whatever to the show
property, it viii not in the least interfere
with their engagements. and Uncle John
Robinson will ill all his dates as adver-
tised.