The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-25


south OF here. Eight persons were kill
ed. one is missing and thirty-four were
injured.
List of Killed and wounded.
The dead are Matt Korcher. Oshkosh;
Ed KuslSie, Fond du Lac. Wis, aged %.
Lawrence Plank, Fond du Lac; George
Lloyd, Eden; Charles Miers, Oshkosh:
Burt Ives, Oshkosh; man from Ashland,
name unknown; Adam Webher.
Missing Ed Lawson. Neenah.
The injured: John Bart. Green Bay.
leg hurt; Fred Wagner. Fond du Lac. leg
broken: Charles Link. Fond du Lac; leg
hurt; CHARLES Rewhing. Fond du Lac
hip hurt: J. J. Schmitz, Neenah, leg and
chest injured: Frank Ranzenski burns
hip hurt; Thomas Lamb. Fond du Lac.
leg broken: Joseph Landerman. Fond du
Lac. leg broken; B. Frotling Fond du
Lac, leg broken; Edward Barbereau,
Kaukana. leg broken: ii. Lloyd. Fond du
Lac. leg broken; Herman Ross. Fond du
Lac, leg broken; f. Gieser. Vandyke leg
hurt; John r. Lyner Vandyke, ankle
hurt; A. II. Raddatie, Vandyke. hand
hurt; Miss Leda Ecke, Fond du Lac,
head hurt: Otto Laukritz. Fond du Lac.
head hurt; John Ryan. Fond du Lac. face
injured; Ernest Gardiner. Neenah hand
hurt; Louis Hansen, Fond tin Lac, head
cut: Henry Schauft Vandyke knee hurt:
Bert Doest. Oshkosh, badly bruised:
James Gaffney, Yandyke. back and leg
hurt; +. l.. Keyes. Fond du Lac, leg
hurt; f. Reinz. Fond du Lac. hand hurt:
schaefer. Fond du Lac. hand injured:
Mrs Eicke. Fond du Lac. hand injured:
Miss Hcider, back hurt; Fred Harper.
Fond du Lac. head cut: John IT, Thomp-
son. Fond du Lac, arm and back hurt:
Ed Carr. Fond du Lac, leg broken: Jean
Carr. Fond du Lac. both legs broken.
Coaches Were TeIcscoped.
The accident happened Just az the pas
senger train was pulling into the station.
a douhle-header freight was backing into
a side track. but had not cleared the
main track.
Those injured were nearly all in the
second coach. When the two trains came
together the first car. which was a com
binatlon. was driven through the second
coach. where the loss Of life occurred
None Of the trainmen was injured. the
engine crew jumping in time TO save
themselves. Roth engines were badly
damaged and two coaches were broken
into kindilng wood.
or the injured thirty arc in serious
condition and several may not recover.
scene Was Hen~treuding.
The excursion train WAS made up at
Fond du Lac and was packed with people
from tina; city. oSkesh and Neenah.
Tho FIRST two coaches of the passenger
train were ,slescopei and demolished fcw
. nf.frf Esest
were killed outright. others were terribly
marEIed Others were badly crushed and
mairned au hemmed In beneath the d..
bris NJ the wrecked car The rcene was
appalling. and the CRIES ~ the injured
hcartreadipE Passengers poured out -
the rear coaches and 70 was but a mo-
rneut before hundreds ~ willing workers
we're busy extraica Ing thr urf0rtunatcn.
some ~ the injured We're only juat alive
when they were taken out and died be-
fore ,hcy could be removed
Inurcd Beg for Help,
IN greatest Excitement prevailed among
the rauic-stucken esrnrsionists Those
unhuri began a vtld s-remhie f9r ;heir
missing friends. and far few moments
.r.~4th'Gu was confusion. Waurr and
rhHdren were crying sua Tary Injured.
utnrot i1 the Nre- haee. were begging 90
te he'qe3
rht hadirs ~ Charles Miersra. ~ 0sh.
k.sh. orl Eawar3 kaeke. 10 Fond 8u r.ac
u,re horribly crushed ara could scarcely
te reroga4Ert-
Tn- raust 20 the a- .ie0t s' far as has
s..a- .3e- u..reI 20 tals tluir Vss Que %
.aa frleaf c'fv failing 81 gave ihc raa.
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