The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-25
ExCURsIONISTs MANGLED.


Six Killed, One Missing and Thirty
Four Manned and Cut.
GREEN BAY. Wis, June PA north
bound passenger train on the Chicago &
Northwestern road, loaded with excursion
lists bound for the saengerfest in this city.
collided at 1918 o'clock this morning with a
freight train at Depere, five miles south of
here. Eight persons were killed, one is
missing and ffty-three were injured. OF
the injured about thirty are in a serious
condition and several may not recover.
The Dead.-
ED KUSKIE. Fond du Lac. wis, drug
gist, aged twenty-seven.
LAWRENCE PLANK. Fond du Lac.
aged twenty-five.
GEORGE L. LLOYD. Eden. died on way
CHARLES MIERswA, Oshkosh.
BURT IVES, Oshkosh.
MATT KORCHER, Oshkosh.
ADAM WEBER, residence unknown.
UNKNOWN MAN. from Ashland.
Missing
ED LAWSON. Neenah.
The Injured
JOf1N bAIlllN, NfttH Day. lCs L
FREDERICK WAGNER. Fond du Lac.
leg broker
WILLIAM KAUFMAN. Fond du Lac.
CHARLES r. LINKE. Fond du Lac, legs
CHARLES REwPING. Fond du Lac. hip
and knee hurt.
IL. sCHMITZ. Neenah, leg and chest in
jured.
FRANK RANsENsKI. burns and hip
hurt.
THOMAS LAMB. Fond du Lac. leg
JOSEPH LANDERMAN. Fond du Lac.
leg broken.
B. FROTLING, Fond du Lac. leg broken.
EDWARD RABEDEAU, Kaukauna, leg
H. LLOYD, Fond du Lac. leg broken.
HERMAN ROSS, Fond du Lac. leg
broken
JOHN r. LYNER; Van Dyne, ankle hurt
MISS LEDA ECKE, Fond du Lac, head
hurt.
OTTO LAUKRITZ, Fond du Lac. head
JOHN RYAN. Fond du Lac. face in
ERNEST GARDNER, Neenah, hand in
LOUIS HANSEN. Fond du Lac. head
cut.
HENRY CHAUFT, Van Dyne. knee hurt.
BERT DOEST, Oshkosh. badly bruised.
JAMES GAFFNEY. Van Dyne, back and
leg hurt
+. REINZ, Fond Du Lac. hand hurt.
= SCHAEFER, Fond du Lac, hand in
MRS. ECHE, Fond du Lac. hip hurt.
MISS HEIDER. back hurt.
FRED HARPER, Fond du Lac, head
JOHN H.. THOMPSON. Fond du Lac,
arm and back hurt.
ED CARR. Fond du Lac, leg broken.
JEAN CARR, Fond du Lac, both legs
EMIL sEvERINE. Fond du Lac. arm
broken and head badly cut.
NJ. THOMPSON. Fond du Lac, slightly.
MRS. ]. THOMPSON, Fond du Lac. in
juries to spine.
A. F. HICKEY, Friendship. foot injured.
RICHARD LAMB, Friendship. arm hurt.
AUGUST BECHAUD. Fond du Lac, leg
w. ]. COOPER, Fond du Lac, leg bruised.
w. ]. COOPER, Fond du Lac. shoulder
DITLEF flick. Fond du Lac. back
bruised.
E. FRAZIER, Fond du Lac. both legs in
jured.
OTTo HANKwITZ. Fond du Lac. arm
broken.
]. DONOVAN, Van Dyne, knee injured.
OSCAR KRAMER. Fond du Lac, legs in
jured.
ALBERT KOBES, legs bruised.
MRS. L. KLISER. hand injured.
c. H. FJNNEY, Davenport, Ia. leg in
jured.
]. GRILLs. Chicago, leg hurt.
PETER KOENAGS, Laychedah, arm and
foot hurt.
A curve in the main track cut off the
view of the on-coming passenger. A flag
man stood guard to warn the approaching
passenger train. Suddenly IL came into
view. running at nearly full speed. 1t was
tagged and many of the train men say that
the air brakes did not work properly. The
two trains crashed together The first two
coaches of the passenger train were tele-
scoped and demolished. few of the passen-
gers 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 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
save themselves
The scene was appalling and the cries of
the injured heartrending. Passengers
poured from the rear coaches, and IL was
workers were busy extricating the unfor-
tunate people who had been caught In the
telescoped cars. The news of the disaster
spread rapidly and soon people of 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 Pepere High School building. which
was converted into a temporary hospital.
Two of the injured died before they could
be removed from the wreck. One OF these
was George l.. Lloyd. who lived in Fond
du Lac. At the High School building all
the doctors in the city were quickly as
sembled and everything was don to re-
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injured who were unable to retuhn home
were taken to st. vincent's Hospital at
Green Bay.
The excursion train was made up ~ Fond