The Worthington advance., 1900-06-29
TRAINS COLLIDE.
Disaster ON the Northwestern Road
at Depere, Wis.,, Causes a Loss
of Six Lives.

Green Bay, Wis, June 25.-A north
bound passenger train on the Chica-
60 q Northwestern road loaded with
exeursionists bound for the saenger-
fest in this city collided at 10: Is o'clock
Sunday morning with freight train
at Depere, five miles south of here.
Six persons were killed, one is missing
and "a were injured.
The dead are:
Ed Kuskie, Fond du Lac. Wis. druggist,
aged q: Lawrence Plank. Fond du Lac,
aged Is: George l.. Lloyd, Byron. died on
his way to the hospital: Charles Miers-
chau. Oshkosh: Max Korcher, Oshkosh;
Adam Weber, Fond du Lac.
Missing-Ed Lawson, Neenah.
The Injured-John Bartin, Green Bay.
leg hurt; Fred Wagner, Fond du Lac, leg
broken; William Kaufman. Fond du Lac.
| both legs broken: Charles r. Linke. Fond
1u Lac, legs hurt; Charles aRewping.
Fond du Lac, hip and knee hurt; J. j.
Frank Ransenski. burns. hip hurt; Thom-
as Lamb, Fond du Lac. leg broken;
Joseph Landerman, Fond du Lac, leg
broken; B. Frotling, Fond du Lac. leg
broken; Edward Rabedeau. Kaukauna.
leg broken: H. Lloyd, Fond du Lac. leg
OAOhCl, 11cIAHdn T1OSS FOnO Qu Lac, leg
| broken: F. Giezer, Van Dyne. leg hurt:
John r.. Lyner, Van Dyne, ankle hurt;
a. H. Raddatie, Van Dyne. hand hurt;
Burt Kraus. Menosha head hurt: Miss
Leda Ecke. Fond du Lac, head hurt: Otto
Laukritz, Fond du Lac, head hurt: John
Ryan, Fond du Lac. face injured; Ernest
Gardner, Neenah, hand injured; Louis
! Hansen, Fond du Lac, head cut: Henry
schauft. Van Dyne, knee hurt; Bert Doest.
! Oshkosh, badly bruised; James Gaffney,
! Van Dyne. back and leg hurt; E. L.
! Keyes, Fond du Lac, leg hurt; F. Reinz.
Fond du Lac, hand hurt; - Schaefer,
Fond du Lac, hand injured; Mrs. Eche,
Fond du Lac. hip hurt; Miss Heider, back
j; hurt; Fred Harper, Fond du Lac head
cut; John H. Thompson, Fond du Lac,
! arm and back hurt: Ed Carr, Fond du
Lac, leg broken; Jean Carr, Fond du
Lac. both legs broken.
The excursion train was made up at
Fond du Lac, and was packed with peo-
! pie from that city, Oshkosh and
Neenah. The first two coaches we're
combination baggage and passenger
| and smoker. and were almost entirely
filled with Fond du Lac people. The
freight, an especially long one, mace
! up at Green Bay, was ordered to side
track at Depere station. Enough of
the train to fill the passing track had
!! cut off, and. the remainder had just
started to back up on the side track back
of the station :Acurve in t he main track
cut off the view of the oncoming pas
senger. A fagman stood in front of
the train, to flag the approaching pas
senger train. Suddenly it came into
view, running at nearly full speed. 1t
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 mangled. and legs and
arms of some were broken. Others
were badly crushed and maimed-all
hemmed in amid the debris of the
wrecked cars. The other cars were
! not dislodged from the track and none
of the other coaches were damaged.
None of the train crew was injured,
all jumping in time to save them
selves. The scene was appalling, and
the cries of the injured heartrending.~
Passengers poured out of the rear
coaches and it was but a moment be-
fore hundreds of willing workers were
busy extricating the unfortunate peo-
pie who had been caught in the tele-
scoped cars. The news of the disaster
spread rapidly, and soon people from
the city gathered by hundreds at the
scene of the wreck. As the dead and
injured were taken out one by one
from the wreck the former were
taken to an undertaking establish
ment and the latter as quickly as
possible to the Depere high school
building, which was converted into
a temporary hospital.
The cause of the accident, so far
as has been determined at this time,
was due to the freight crew failing
to give the passenger the right of
way. The freight arrived at Depere
at ten o'clock and made for the sid
ing. Finding that the train was too
long and would not go on one siding,
the freight crew cut the train in
two and ran ahead on the main track.
At the point where the switching is
done there is a sharp curve. The pas
senger, supposing it had the right of
way and that the freight was on the
siding, came along at fast rate. The
next minute the two engines had col
lided with full force.
KILLED FROM AMBUSH.