St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-16
ton to the alienation of the sufferings
of the living. Some were
Helpless and Half Unconscious,

ana clothing had all been burned in the
Pullman. and the equipment left at the
ulSpoSal OF the trainmen were poor in
deed, and the entire party were now
the victims of the pihless cold.
Inc accident happened near James
vile, and a brakeman was Straightway
dispatched to this station to summon
aid from Brainerd. The Northern Pa
cltic company responded forthwith, and
In few moments from the receipt OF
the Geographic signal. train was dis
patched To the scene of disaster, ana
shortly after another engine with three
surgeons were also en- route for the
scene of distress. With all dispatch
possible the injured were carefully re-
moved. They were brought to this
city. and the Arlington hotel was con-
verted into hospital. The surgeons of
the Northern Pacific road were now re-
enforced by the corps coming down
from the Sanitoriun, and in q short
time all were resting easy. The re-
mains OF the dead were taken to an I'M
dertaker, where preparations were made
Tor thels shipment this evening. The
BODY OF Mrs. Andrews will be
Taken TO Wankato
for burial. That place was her home. as
1t IS the home of the Andrews brothers.
the propretorS of the opera company
he body of Lille Wallace, the maid,
will be taken to MINNEAPOLIS, where
her parents reside, Late this evening
the surgeons state that all the injured
Will recover. Perhaps those most ser
iously injured are Miss Josie Shearer
and the members OF the company who
sustain frozen feet. Miss Shearer is
hurt internally, and it is impossible to
determine at this time how seriously.
Conductor Ball narrated the Incl
dents of the appalling catastrophe to
your correspondent today.
I'VE were riding" said he, ''at the
rate of twenty-five miles an hour. We
had positive Instructions. and have had,
for that matter, ever since this severe
cold spell set in, not to run faster than
schedule time to make up for any delays
that might happen. Near GAINESVILLE
we felt terrific jar, and were thrown
violently against the side of the bag
gage car. The first thought that en-
tered my mind was that the engine had
plunged into culvert. The train
stopped soon after, and we sprang to
the ground and discovered that the bag
gage car had parted from the sleeper,
and that lay on its side at the foot of
A Ten-FOOt Embankment
some 100 feet further up the track. |
summoned my men at once, and, arming
ourselves with axes, saws and crow
bars, we sprang down the steep decline.
We had the rear door open in jIffy,
and some of the male members of the
opera company came running out bare
footed and in their night robes only.
Oh! it was bitter cold. and saw their
condition with alarm. They seemed
paralyzed with fright, and knew they
would quickly freeze to death in that
frigid atmosphere.
Kun to the baggage car l shouted,
and they complied with all the speed
possible, running over the ice and
snow. The others came out, some cut
and bleeding and some with great diff
Guilty. We rushed into the wreck, and
to our horror found it on fire. We i'm
mediately turned attention to the
women. who were shriekiEg piteously
for help. One poor girl was already on
flre, and we managed to eXtinguiSh the
flames and save some of the bedding,
which we wrapped around the naked
women, and conducted them to the bag
gage car as fast as possible. Mr.. An
dreWS had
Saved His Little Child,
and then he began to shrek:
My God! My wife is in there yet
through the horrible flames to the very
end of the car. Every article in the
coach was now in flames, and it was
like a seething furnace. We were
driven back, but we made attack from
the other end. We gained an entrance
and were almost transflXed by the hor-
| rible scene that was presented to our
| view. In the front berth were the
| charred remains of Mrs. Andrews and
her maid. We saved all that was left,
and that was all we could do. / am
sure the railway company is in no way
| to blame. 1t was one of those unayoid-
able accidents that railroad men have
to contend with once in a WHILE"
George HaSs was the engineer. He
corroborates the statement made by the
conductor.
1--WE were going at a speed Of not
over twenty-five miles an hour" said
he. when the locomotive gave
A Tremendous Lurch.
"Instinctively knew something awful
had happened, and l reversed the valve,
| bringing the train to a sudden halt.
| Then L descended, together with the
fireman, and joined MIR. Ball and the
baggageman and brakeman in rescuing
the people from the wreck. 1t was an
awful morning, and I'll never for
get it; but it was something
we could not avoid. The rail broke into
five pieces, and that tells the story: and
it happened, just as many frightful rail-
road accidents do happen, right on an
entertainment. Why rails will break in
such places is a fatality that no railroad
man can comprehend. / believe that
Mrs. Andrews and her maid were in
stantly killed when the car went rolling
down the embankment, for | was in the
car and close to their berth, and heard
no cutlery at all in them. and naturally
supposed its occupants had escaped"
Mrs. Andrews was the soubrette of
the company, and her stage name was
Miss Mamie Wilkinson. She was ex-
ceedingly clever and popularin the COM
pany.
Three Lived I'm Minneapolis.
Three of the persons injured in the
wreck were residents of Minneapolis.
Lille Wallace, the girl who was burned
to death with Mrs. Andrews, was a hair
| dresser who used to live at ia Henne-
| pin avenue. She went with the An
| drews Opera company AS Mrs. Andrews
| maid. Lulu Harris is rightly named
| Hashow. Her mother, Mrs. Mary
| HaShOw, lives at Ninth avenue south
and Seventh street. The other girl in
| iured was May Douglass. She is said to
| be the daughter of an East side drug
| gist, but there is no druggist on the East
| side of that name in the directory.
| These two girls last mentioned were not
| badly hurt. They were both young, lit