Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-08-20
LIVES LOST BY WREcks.

Lives LOST BY WRECKS.
Collidlng Trains ON Several Railways
Cause tho Death Of Number OF Mon
Others Badly Hurt.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Aug. 18-As
the east.bound North Shore limited on
the Michigan Central railroad was pass
Ing Augusta, a small town nine miles
west OF here. at 6 o'clock Friday after
noon, 1t ran into q standing freight
train while going at full speed, and
crashed through the depot building,
completely demolishing 1t. The engine
then exploded, blowing the fireman lit
orally to pieces and killing the engi-
neer, Charles McRoberts. One brake
man is missing, and it is thought he is
buried in the debris.
The limited did not stop at Augusta,
having right of way. The freight was
waiting on siding for the express to
pass. For some unaccount ia BILE reason
a swi tch ut the spur was left turned on
to the main track aud the express
came into the freight at full speed.
Eight crrs were tossed into the air
and the engine plowed through the
debris and crushed into the depot. En-
gineer -McRoberts was blown twenty
feet into the air and his mangled re-
mains were picked up some distance of,
OF the passengers only nine were injured
seriously. Their names could not be
obtained at this writing, except that of
George b. Murray, of Detroit, ribs
crushed and internally injured. Both
the engineer and fireman live in jack
son, Mich. OF the express train the
baggage car and two Shoppers were de-
molished, and how the occupants es-
capped is miracle. A little boy named
Clarence Cassidy playing near the
depot was struck by a piece OF iron
from the locomotive and may not re-
cover.
Late intelligence is to the effect that
Mrs. P. Powell, c. S. Keene and G. L.
Beetle, all of Chicago, and Nat School,
of Toledo; Conductor Crofoot, George
Steam, OF New York, and Charles
Brickman, of Detroit, we're slightly
injured. The dead freman's name
was Robert Gregg. He was completely
enveloped in the debris and steam and
was scalded frightfully. His head was
crushed to jelly, so that he must have
been killed instantly. The damage to
the railway property is estimated at
$40, 900.
FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR ALTON.
ALTON, ILL.,, Aug. 15.-A collision &C.
Cured near Clifton Terrace, on the
Bluff line, in which three lives were
lost and many persons seriously injured.
The Springfield express, which left
Alton at $40, collided with a con.
struction train just above Clifton. Fire
man Smith, Of the passenger train, was
pinned to the boiler head and crushed
to death. The others killed we're
Charles McGee, of this city, who was
completely decapitated, and man
named Murray, who was crushed to
death. The injured number fifteen.
COLLISION At PATERSON, n. j.
PATERSON. N. j.. Avg. l6.-A serious
accident occurred on the Erie railroad
near the bridge over the Passaic river
in this city at 4:45 o'clock Friday after
noon, in which Fireman j. E. Townsend
was probably fatally injured. Train
No. 2 (the Chicago & Grand Trunk ex-
press), bound east, running at the rate
OF forty miles an hour, crashed into
freight train. The fireman jumped,
and was turned over and over by the
force of his fall He was picked up un-
conscious. The engineer stuck to his
post and almost miraculously escaped
injury.
WORK OF TRAIN-WRECKERS
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 16.-Unknown
miscreants placed an obstruction on the
Baltimore & Ohio tracks twenty miles
from this city Thursday night. An
excursion train struck it and two
engineers and supposed tramp
were instantly killed. The engine
toppled over the embankment but the
cars fortunately fell to the other side
of the track, on the hillside. Had
they fallen the same way as the en-
CINE there must have been terrible loss
of life.
TWO MORE VICTIMS IN KENTUCKY.
LEXINGTON, KY, Aug. 16.-Frank II.
Smith, baggagemaster, and Mr.. Row.
land, roadmaster, who were hurt in the
collision Wednesday night, are dead.
Smith, though badly scalded, walked
mile and a half after the accident to
Spring station to give notice to COM
ing train.
TWO P1NKERToN MEN KILLED.
ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 16.-Alfred Lud-
ington and George D. Rossiter, Of Phil
adelphia, two of Pinkerton's detectives
stationed at West Albany, were killed
by a passenger train. They had been
to get drink of water and were return
ing to their posts at the time.
ONE IN NEW YORK.
Troy, N. v, Aug. 16.-The $3.50 train
out of Albany collided with freight
train two miles west of Schenectady
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