St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-25
SPLIT the CAbOOSE.
Horrible Accident on the Chi
cago Great Western at
New Hampton.
q Heavy Freight Crushes Into
a Caboose Containing
Twelve People.
Seven Killed Outright and
Three Seriously In
jured.
Bodies Of the Dead Taken
From the Wreck Hor-
pibly Mutilated.

MASON CITY. To-. Sept. 24.-Seyen
dead and three injured is the result of
railroad wreck which occurred at New
Hampton today. For the number of
lives lost and destruction to property, it
is the worst accident that has occurred
III the state in years.
a construction crew has been at work
on the main line OF the Chicago Great
Western road replacing rails, and this
morning they were ordered out from
Elma to work south on the road.
About 10 a. M, they pulled into
New Hampton Oh the main
track and stopped to do some work.
The through freight was due at the
latter point at lis The freight was
little behind time. and was running on
orders not to stop at New Hampton.
The road enters New Hampton from
the north. but within sixty rods makes
turn, going directly east. This makes
bad curve in the road, and it is rem
dered still worse by grove which en-
hrely shuts out vision until within forty
rods of the station. The train was
going at the rate Of about thirty miles
Rn hour.
When within about ten rods of the
cabooSe of the construction train the
freight engineer saw the peril confront
Ing him and, yelling to his fireman to
Jump, he reversed the lever and both left
The engine. 1t was just in time to save
their lives, for a moment later the en-
CINE smashed into the caboose, fairly
Splitting 1t in Two,
and engine, caboose and three freight
ears piled up in a promise uous mass.
The engine was buried in three feet of
earth.
In the caboose of the construction
train were at least twelve persons and
six of these were killed outright, one
has since died, three are dangerous ly
injured, two are unaccounted for. 1t is
thought very probable that the latter
are buried under the wreckage. 1t is
known positively that one more man is
under the engine, for part of him can
be seen, and before morning it is
thought that his body will be recovered.
p The work of clearing up is very slow,
the timberS being heavy, and the facili-
ties inadequate. \ crowd of curious
men, women and children crowd in aud
around the wreck, but many are too
fainthearted to witness the Sickening
sights. One man taken out of the wreck
had great hole plowed through his
body; another had his entrailS literally
torn out, exposing his heart, while 9TH
ers were so badly cut and ground up as
TO be totally unrecognizaDle. A part of
the wearing apparel of lady has been
taken out, land ii is thought that she may
be buried under the debris. The bodies
are now in charge of undertakers, and are
being prepared for burial. Sheriff
Brown has been busy in summoning a
jury and opening an inquest. 1t will be
several days before they will be able to
report.
NJ. Mcnamara, a travelling salesman
from independence, was one of the
killed. The remaining six men have
not yet been identified, and there was
nothing on their persons by which they
could be identified. A large crew will
work all night at the wreck.
The Dead.
Following are the dead, so far as
known:
MICHAEL Men AMARA, a travelling man
OF Independence, 10.
W BEEMAN, Elma, 10.
OTTO SMITH. Elma.
GEORGE BRADNOW. Elma.
FRANK KUBBET. Elma.
UNKNOWN MAN.
HENRY MCCARTHY, Elma, both legs cut
off, skull crushed; died after being removed
from wreck.
The injured:
Thomas Ganghan. Elma, injured internally
and legs broken; will die. Owen Connolly,
injured il head; may recover.