Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-23
A BROKEN RAIL.

It Causes FrlRhtful Disaster In Minne-
sota--Tho Wrecked Cars Take Fire and
Two Female Dtembors of tho Andrews'
Opera Company Aro Burned to Death
Many Others Injured.
BRAINARD, Mimi, Jan. 49, fright
ful railroad accident occurred on the
Northern Pacific road miles east of
Brainard at o'clock a. m. Friday The
second section of No. o. with the
Andrews opera company on board, left
West Superior at midnight for Grand
Forks. Near Jonesville the train
struck broken rail, the engine and
baggage car passing over in safety,
but the sleeping car was derailed and
ran some 800 feet on the ties when it
toppled over, breaking loose from the
train, and went down an embankment
some five feet high, lying on its side.
In a minute all was confusion. Tho
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 rs windows were
broken to liberate those inside flames
shot out, and in very short order the
car was enveloped.
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 ther-
mometer reaching 40 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 Csnown as Miss Mamie
| Wilkinson), burned to death: Mrs. L. Wallace, OF
| Minneapolis, burned to death; Florence Joy, Sc.
verely 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.. +. Barker, shoulder
dislocated; Miss Marie Roe, slightly burned and
bruised; George Andrews, burned on arms;
Miss Ella Harris, burned on neck and arms; j.
c. Taylor, cut and bruised; II. Allen, burned on
neck; Fred Allen, bruised; Miss 10 Shearer
slightly burned; L. f. Barker, burned on hand:
and face; w. A. Wirth, chorus, slightly in
jured; Bert Lincoln, chorus, arm fractured G
|
Mrs. Al Wakefield, wife of advance agent, fee
frozen; G. w. Andrews, business manager, bad
ly burned and cut; Miss Grace Hale, chorus
slightly burned; Willie Rhys, orchestra, hands
slightly burned; Etna Hurning, chorus, fee
frozen: Mrs. Enheare, badly burned; G. A
Parker, comedian, back injured; ]. L. Watson
feet frozen.
Miss Douglas, when she wa'
, brought from the car, was literally en-
veloped in flames, her hair being OIL
fire. The women were nearly nude
but were wrapped up as they wer
} taken out The bodies of the tw
!, women burned to death wer
: charred beyond all recognition, tn
: heads, legs and arms being entirel
gone. Mr. Ed Andrews rescued thei
4 little baby, and supposed his wife wa
; safe until a count was made. He
w lid with grief. The members of tn
company lost all they possessed, excer
stage clothes, including musical il
struments, watches and money.