The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-10-11
WAS WRECKED IN A FOG
North Western Train Runs Into a
Freight.
TWO TRAINMEN HURT,
Passengers Are Bruised and Badly
Shaken Up-Wrecked
Cars Burn.

Oshkosh, Wis, Oct. 7.-[Special. =
The southbound passenger train coming
from Marshfeld. On the Ashland divis-
ion of the Chicago Il Northwestern
road, collided with the rear enc Of a
miles north of Oshkosh this morning at
& o'clock. Those injured are:
GEORGE vlELE. fireman, home at
MarShfeld, fracture of the collar bone.
l.. III. FOUBORE, brakeman, home at
Marshfield, conclusion OF the spine may
die
Injured men were taken to st. Mary
hospital at Oshkosh.
Several passengers bruised but not seri-
ously injured
The train was running south at the
rate of thirty miles an hour when it ran
into Il freight train running in the same
deriction, the dense fog preventing the
engineer from seeing the train in front
OF him. The collision occurred suddenly
and without warning, the engineer being
taken by surprise. He was slightly in
Jured. The smoker was completely over
turned and the baggage cars totally
wrecked.
y. Andrews, Ole of the passengers, who
is postmaster at Shawano, bound for the
PoStmasterS' convention at Chicago, says
he WAS in the smoker. He was thrown
the full length of the car and was badly
bruised. lie says that the passenger
train was going about thirty miles an
hour south when it collided with the
rear end Of the freight train going south.
The dense fog, he says, prevented the
engineer from seeing ahead Of him.
Postmaster J. +. Stewart Of Clintonville
says he was standing in the door of the
baggage car two Ininutes before the col
lison. He went. to the platform of the
smoker and was standing there when the
tram struck.the freight. He Was.siight-
iy injured.
at Smells station the injured and the
passengers were transferred onto Il Wis
consin Central train and taken to Osh-
lSosh, where the injured were taken to
ST. Mary's hospital.
The brakeman was standing in the
front end of baggage ca when the trains
came together and was thrown through
Il hole in the front end of the car made
by the collision and landed on his back,
first going over the engine. Conclusion
of spine resulted.
There were two other freight trains
Oh the siding at Shells and the tracks
were not long enough to accommodate
all the trains, even had the freight lad
time to get in. Defective working of
the block system Is assigned as the cause
of the accident There were two
coaches on the passenger besides a COM
bination smoker and baggage car which
did not leave the track. The engine
rolled down one side of the bank and the
baggage car and smoker the other. There
were thirty-fye cars in the freight train.
The passenger engine was completely
demolished and the caboose and three
freight cars were wrecked. The wrecked
cars caught fire and We're burned. The
road is badly INSTRUCTED.
The PASSENGER train left Neenah at
G:25 o'clock and was due here at 800
The freight was short distance north
OF Smells. The passenger had been Civ
en- a caution card at Neenah to look out
for the freight. which was trying to get
in on the siding at Smells when struck
by the passenger. The fog was very
thick and the engineer of the passenger
could not see three car lengths ahead.
He jumped and yelled to the fireman to
jump when he saw something black
ahead The engineer was only bruised
about the nose, but the fireman was
hurled through the window of the cab
and landed about twenty-five feet away.