Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-01-16
TWO BURNED TO DEATH.

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Frightful Accident on the Northern
Pacific Railroad-How the Mishap
Oceurred-List of the Dead and
Injured.
BRAINERD, Mimi, Jan. ia frightful
railroad accident occurred on the North,
ern Pacific road, seven miles east of Brain.
erd, at O'Clock this morning. The Sec
ton of No. 8, with the Andrews Opera
company on board, left West Superior at
midnight for Grand Forks. Near Jones'
vile the train struck a broken rail, the en-
CINE and baggage car passing over in safe
ty, but the sleeping car was derailed and
ran 300 feet on the ties when it toppled
| over, breaking loose from the train and
| went down an embankment five feet high,
lying on its side.
In minute all was confusion aud the
sleeping inmates realized their peril. As
soon as windows were broken to iberate
those inside flames shot out and in a very
short time the car was enveloped. The
trainmen soon liberated those who were
| unable to extricate themselves, but none
were able to save their clothes and the
night being one of the coolest of the sea-
son-the thermometer registering 40 de-
grees below zero-the suffering was ter
rible. At this time it was discovered that
Mrs. Ed. Andrews and Lille Wass were
missing, but no human effort could rem
der them assistance, as the car was a mass
of flames. The injured were placed in the
baggage car and brought to Brainerd and
quartered at the Darlington hotel
A list of the dead and injured as far as
obtainable is as follows: Mrs. Ed An
drews Qknown as Miss Mamie Wilkinson)
burned to death: Miss Lille Wallace of Min
neapolis, burned to death; Florence Joy,
severely burned on back and head, will
probably die. May Douglas, burned on
head and arms; Miss Letitia Fritch,
burned and hands and arms; Mrs. L. F.
Barker, shoulder dislocated; Miss Marie
Roe, slightly burned and bruised; Miss
Ella Harris, burned on neck and arms;
Miss 10 Shearer, slightly burned on hands
and face; George Andrews, burned on
arms.
w. A. Wierth, slightly injured; Bert
Lincoln, arm fractured; G. F. Moody lead
er of orchestra, slightly burned; Mrs. AL.
Wakefield, wife of advance agent, feet
frozen; G. w. Andrews, business mana
ger, badly burned and cut; Miss Grace
Hale, slightly burned; Etna Hurning, feet
frozen; Mrs. Enhaer, badly burned; G. A.
Parker, comedian, back I'M ured; J. L.
Watson, feet frozen.
j. G. Taylor, cut and bruised; b. Allen,
burned on neck; Fred Allen, bruised; L.
F. Barker, burned on hands and face.
The bodies of the two women burned to
death were charred beyond all recognition,
the heads, legs and arms being entirely
gone. The members of the company lost
all they possessed.
1t is thought none of the injured will
die.
SPRINGFIELD, O., Jan. 15.-Last night
while a coal train of twenty-seven loaded
cars on the Ohio Southern road near Storm
Station was coming down a steep curving
grade, the brake failed to work and the
train ran away down the incline. AT last
the engine, at incalculable velocity, jump
ed the track into q ravine and twenty one
cars jumped, one after another, on top of
it. Brakeman Harry Russ was killed. w.
w. Cochrane, the engineer, it is supposed,
lies dead under the mass of cars and coal.
Fireman Harry Long had leg broken.
The loss is $4,000.
Intense Cold in the Northwest.
ST. PAUL, Jan. 15-The mercury in this
city lowered about zero nearly all day yes
terday, and after dark fell rapidly, and at
10 o'clock was 10 degrees below. The
coolest weather, however, seems to be
across the line, in Manitoba 1t was yes
terday 40 degrees below zero at Winnipeg,
35 degrees below at Q'Appelle and Prince
Albert and "a degrees below at Edmonton
and Swift Current. On this side of the
border, Grand Forks and Jamestown, N.
D., reported 35 degrees below and st. Vim