The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-09-19
SEVEN IL YES LOST.
AS A RESULT OF THE GREAT
a-a NORTHERN COLL ;sloN.
WorlSmen C1enrlnE Away the ~ 'recH
Find Two More Bodies, Suppa seu
to be Those OF Tramps Who WeA
ON the Baggage Car.

ST. Cloud, Mimi, Sept. i3.-Not since
the terrible Nelson collision three
years ago has the Great Northern ex-
perienced so dreadful wreck as that
near Melby, a small flag station about
midway between Ashton and Evans
vile. Somebody Numbered and five
are dead and others injured us the re-
suit
Tie traing usually meet at Ashby,
but orders Were received to meet at
Melby. These We're either misunder-
stood or forgotten by Engineer
Haynes, who rushed by Melby with
the terrible result.
No. >, cast-bound passenger train
while running at comparatively high
rate Of speed, met No. g. the coast
bound train, and the following were
killed and wounded:
Killed.. II. Emerson, engineer No.
,: James S. Thiebodo, fireman No. 3;
w. II. kershaw, express messenger.
No. >; e. 7. Johnson, mail clerk, No. -;
Ira S. Haynes. engineer. No. 3.
Trainmen Injured-Wesley G. Ro-
Burgoyne, brakeman, arm broken and
messenger. leg broken and eye in
jured; George Williams, mail clerk,
seriously injured internally; j. O. Roz-
enQuist mail clerk, injured in back.
Passengers Injured-Frank NJ. Cur
tbs. Mason, Wis, arm, leg and face
injured not seriously; Miss Margaret
Allison, Mason, Wis, badly cut and
bruised over the entire body, and her
hon in
Paul. mail clerk, head and limbs in
jured; Chris Baglow, Fergus Falls, in
ternally Injured; H. H. Mohr, San
Francisco, head and hands injured;
Steve Martin, Streator. ILL.,, head and
limo cut; Mrs. John Russell, Duluth,
badly Jared and shocked.
AS soon as the news reached here a
Wrecking crew, having on board Supt.
j. Is. Rice and Assistant Superintend-
cnt Ponsonby, left for the scene Of
the accident. Doctors w. L. Beebee
and J. c. Bohen were also taken on
board from here to assist in taking
care OF the injured. \ wrecker from
Barnesville reached the scene just be-
fore the st. Cloud party.
The point where the accident Oc-
cured is at the top Of what is known
as Pelican hill. Originally the siding
here was put in that trains could lie
taken over the hill in sections, but Of
late years the grade has been so re-
ducen that the practice has ceased.
1t was On this heavy grade that the
TWO fast flyers met, and how the death
List is so small is miraculous, as both
engines and the mail and baggage
cars which followed are complete
wrecks.
Chief Dispatcher Buskirk stated the
wreck was the worst in the history of
the system, and five of the best men
have been suddenly killed. He also
said that the blame of the accident
does not attach to this office, but at
the present prefers not to say Just
where it lies
All the killed were residents of St.
Paul. Mail Agent Flack. of the Will
mar line, said this morning he did not
see how the mail agents ESCAPED
death, as at the point where the acct
dent took place it was always custo-
mary for one agent CT each train to
be sleeping
st. Paul, Sept. bat Great North
ern headquarters, in st. Paul it was
learned that at l 30 trains and 3 col
llded one and one-half miles west of
Melby Both engines and the baggage
ana mail cars are more or less dam
aSed-Ihe balance of the train re-
NAMED on the track and are not in
Jureu. The cause of the accident is
supposed to be the result Of Train No.
5 passing it's meeting place, which was
liked at Melby by special train order.
The injured are at Evansville and at
farm houses near the wreck, cared for
10y physicians.