The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-01-20
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
Passenger Train on the Northern
Pacific Road Wrecked
BY n Broken Rail Near Jonesville, MINI.
Two Persons Killed and Twenty
InJured-A Freight Wreck on
tho Ohio Southern Kills
Two Men. ..N e

Two Men Il
BRAINERD, Mimi, Jan. 16.-A horri-
BILE accident occurred on the Northern
Pacific railroad at Jonesville, the first
station east Of here, at $3.50 o'clock yes
terday morning. A special train con-
sisting OF the sleeping car "Petrep' and
baggage car was running as the sec
ond section of No 0, the regular train
from Superior The special left South
Superior at 11:3O Thursday evening,
having on board the Andrews Opera
Company, going from Duluth to Grand
Forks The train was running at the
usual rate of speed when IL struck q
broken rail. The sleeper left the track
and went down an embankment land
ing bottomside up The flames broke
out from all parts of the car immediate
ly and burned so rapidly that the crew
could do nothing but extricate the pas
sengers from the wreck When all were
believed to have been rescued, search
revealed the fact that Mrs Ed Andrews,
wife of the proprietor Of the troup, and
her nurse, Miss Lilly Wallace, were
missing.
BY this time the flames were burning
so fiercely that it was impossible to get
near the car When the flames were
finally subdued the remains were dis
covered, so badly burned that 1t was
impossible to identify one from the
other. Mrs Andrews and Miss Wallace
had occupied an upper berth at the for
ward end Of the car and were wrapped
in bed clothes There was no outcry
from this berth while the work of res
cuing the injured was progressing and
1t is supposed that both occupants were
killed instantly.
Twenty passengers, more or less seri-
ously injured, were taken from the
wreck. Physicians were sent from
Brainerd on special train. The in
jured were brought back TO this city
and taken 10 the Northern Pacific hos
pital as soon rs possible. Mrs. An
drews' stage name was Mamie Wilkin-
son.
List of injured-Florence Joy, chorus
girl, severely burned on back and head,
will probably die; May Douglass, chorus
girl, burned on head and arms, will
probably recover; Miss Meta Fritch,
prima donna, burned on hands and
arms; Mrs L. +. Barker her sister,
shoulder dislocated; Miss May Roe, So
prano, slightly burned and bruised;
George Andrews, baritone, burned on
arms; Miss Ella Harris, chorus girl,
burned on neck and arms; Jay A. Tay-
lor, tenor. cut and bruised; Miss Shear
er, chorus girl, slightly burned; l.. +.
Barker son Of Mrs. Barker, burned on
hands and arms
SPRNGFIED, o., Jan. 16-The wreck
on the Ohio Southern on the hill Thurs.
day night was the worst II has ever had
An entire freight train went down TO
destruction. The place where the acci-
dent occurred is known as Little Horse
Shoe Bend, and is at the foot Of hill
which is six miles long, with grade of
eighty feet TO the mile. The train was
made up of twenty-nine loaded coal
cars. The crew lost control Of 1t two
miles from the summit II soon gained
terrific speed, and when IL struck
curve Of sixteen degrees the engine
leaped off the track. The rest Of the
train followed The cars were piled up
in indescribable confusion.
Engineer william G. Cochran, of this
city, was dug out Friday morning. He
was under the overturned engine and
was literally cooked alive, besides hav-
ing nearly every bone in his body
broken. Fireman Harry Long, of
Jackson, was half buried under coal
He had a leg and wrist broken, but 1t
Is believed will recover Head Brake
man A. L. Rees, this city, was fatally
injured He, too, was buried under
coal Livingston and brakeman
jumped just in time to escape. The
loss will run into the Thousands