Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-01-21
a BROKEN RAIL.

II Causes = !Fr'ghtful Disaster in MtnAe.
3 ota-The VIZ, cked Cars Take Fare and
Two Female Members OF tho Andrews
Opera Company Arc Burned to Ceaill-
Many Others Injured.
SBRA1NARD, Mimi, Jan. 16.-A fright
full railroad accident occurred on the
Northcrn Pacific road z miles east OF
Hrainard at o'clock a. m. Friday The
second section of No. Q, with the
Andrews opera company on boarl, left
West Superior at midnight for Grand
Forks Near Jonesville the train
struck a broken rail, the engine and
baggage CAR passing over in safety,
zbnt tie sleeping car@ssas derailed and
ran some 500 feet on the ties when it
toppled oyer, breaking loose from the
train. and went down an cmbankment
some five feet high, lying on its side.
In minute all was confusion. The
sleeping inmates realized their peril.
The Pullman conductor, Herbert c.
Scott, was one of the first to get out
side, and when he did so no fire was
visible, but as soon as windows were
broken to liberate those inside thames
shot out, and inrvery short order the
car was enveloped e
Willing hands of trainmen soon liber.
ated those who were unable to extri.
cate themselves. but none were able
to save their clothes and the night be-
ing the coolest of the season, the Their
mometer reaching 46 below, the suffer-
ing of the injured was terrible.
At this time it was discovered that
Mrs. Ed Andrews and Lille Was were
missing, but no human effort could
render them assistance, as the car was
a mass of flames The injured were
placed in baggage car and brought to
Brainard and quartered at the Earling-
ton hotel. "A list Of the dead and in
jured, so far as obtained, is as follows:
Mrs. Ed Andrews (lsnown as Miss Mamie
Wilkinson, burned to death; Mrs. L. Wallace, OF
Minneapolis, burned to death; Florence JOY Sc
gerely burned on back and head, will probably
die; May Douglas burned on head and arms, will
probably recover: Miss Letitia ,Fritch, burned
On hands and arms; Mrs L. F. Barker, shoulder
iislocated Miss Marie Roe, slightly burned and
bruised; George Andrews, burned on arms;
Miss Ella Harris, burned on neck and arms; j..
9. Taylor, cut and bruised; H. Allen, burned on
neck; Fred Allen, bruised: Miss 10 Shearer,
slightly burned: L. f. Barker, burned on hands
and face: w. A Wirth, chorus, slightly in
!, iured: Bert Lincoln, chorus, arm fractured: G..
F. Moody, leader Of orchestra slightly burned;
Mrs. Al Wakefield, wife of advance agent, feet
frozen; C. w. Andrews, business manager, bad
ly burned and cut: Miss Grace Hale, chorus,
slightly burned; Willie Rhys, orchestra, hands
slightly burned; Etna Hurning, chorus. feet
frozen; Mrs Enheare, badly burned; C. A.
Parker, comedian, back injured; j. l.. Watson,
feet frozen, III
Miss e Douglas, when she was
brought from the car, was literally en-
veloped in flames, her. hair being on
FIRE. The women were nearly nude,
but were wrapped up as they were
taken out, The bodies of the two
women burned to death were
1charred r beyond all recognition. the
heads, legs and arms being entirely
gone. Mr.: Ed Andrews rescued their
little baby, and supposed his wife was
safe until a count was made. He is
wild with grief. The members of the
company lost all they possessed, except
stage clothes, including musical in
struments, watches and money.