The age-herald., 1900-06-25
EXCURSION TRAIN
 MEETS DISASTER
Eight Men Are Dead and Thirty
 four Injured.
C0LLIDED WITH A FREIGHT
The Passenger T. 8 Was Loade Wit Excursionists Going to Saenger- fest in Green Bay, Wis
 Train Crew Escaped

Green Bay, Wis., June 2l--A passenger train on the Chicago and Northwestern road loaded with excursionists bound for the Sangerfest in this city, collided at 1915 o'clock this morning with a freight train at Deperee, five miles south of here. Eight persons were killed, one is missing and thirtyfour were injured.
 The dead are:
 Adam Weber
 Matt Korcher of Oshkosh
 Ed Kuskie, Fond du Lac, Wis. aged 27
 Lawrence Plank, Fond du Lac; aged 15.
 George L. Lloyd Eden; died on way to hospital.
 Charles Mierswa, Oshkosh
 Burt lives, Oshkosh.
 Man from Ashland, name unknown.
 Missing:
 Ed Lawson, Neenah.
 The inured are:
 John Bartin, Green Bay; leg hurt
 Fred Wagner, Fond du Lac; leg broken.
 William Huffman, Fon du Lac; both legs broken.
 Charles R. IIinke, Fon du Lac; legs hurt.
 Charles Rewping, Fon du Lac; hip and knee hurt.
 J. J. Schmitz, Neenah; leg and chest in jured.
 Frank Ransensld Burns; hip hurt.
 Thomas Lamb Fon du Lac; leg broken. Joseph Landerman, Fon du Lac; leg broken.
 B. Froting, Fon du Lac; leg broken. Edward Rabadeau, Kaukauna; leg broken.
 II. Llyod Fon du Lac; leg broken.
 Lar lpp broken F. Giezer Van Dyne; leg hurt.
 John R. Lyner, Van Dyne; ankle hurt A. H. Raddatie, Van Dyne; hand hurt Miss Leda Ecke, Fon du Lac; head hurt Otto Laukrtz, Fon du Lac; head hurt
 John Ryan, Fon du Lac face injured Ernest Gardner, Neenah; hand injured. Louis Hansen, Fon du Lac; head cut.
 Henry Schauft, Van Dyne; knee hurt. Bert Doest, Oshkosh; badly bruised.
 James Gaffney, Van Dyne; back and leg hurt.
 Fl Keys, Fon du Lac; hand hurt
 Schaeffer, Fon du Lac; hand in- jured.
 Miss Eche, Fon du Lac; hip hurt. Miss Heider, back hurt. Fred Harper, Fon du Lac; head cut. John II. Thompson, Fon du Lac; arm and back hurt. Ed Carr, Fon du Lac; leg broken. Jean Carr, Fon du Lac; both legs broken.
 The accident happened just as the pas senger train was pulling into the station. "A double -header freight was backing into a sidetrack to let the passenger by, but had not cleared the main track.
 A curve in the main track cut off the view of the oncoming passenger. flag man stood guard to warn the approaching passenger train Suddenly it came into view, running at nearly full speed It was Tagged and many of the trainmen say that the air brakes did not work properly. The two trains crashed together. The first two coaches of the passenger train were telescoped and demolished, few of the passengers escaping injury Some were killed outright, others were terribly man. gled, and legs and arms of some were broken. Others were badly crushed and maimed-all hemmed amid the debris of the wrecked cars The other cars were not dslodged from the track and none of the other coaches were damaged.
 Two of the injured died before they could be extricated from the wreck. One of these was George Lloyd who lived in Fon du Lac.
 The accident, far as has been de- termined at this time, was due to the freight crew failing to give the passenger the right of way.