The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-09-05

DiU"u lEOm GuS IFdCh py CySlOn
passenger train No. 507, west boun'
on the Chicago & North Western
road, was wrecked four miles west O
Owatonna Saturday evening AM
several people were killed and sbou
twenty-five injured. a number o
them quite seriously and several ar,
not yet expected to recover.
The train is known as the MankatC
and Winora local and is due at thi
station st 2 p. m. It was made up o.
two coaches and baggage car ant
engine 1t was in charge of Conduc
tor William Kinzie with Engineer
Mitchell in the cab.
The dead:
ETHEL RICHARDSON, New Ulm,
died from internal injuries.
DELMAR PETERSON of Wssecs,
skull crushed.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN.
Fatally injured
A. G. Mcconnell, Brookings, s. D.
Almira J. Bickford. Albert Lea.
The injured:
Senator T. V. Knatvold, Albert Lea,
four ribs broken.
G. f. Wenah, Badger, Wis. internal
injuries.
Caroline A. McCune, Worthington,
badly bruised on arms and breast.
Clint Gregg, Marion, Iowa, left ear
Topped off, breast hurt and left leg
injured.
Mrs Charles Green, Owatonna, head
cut and left side bruised.
R. L. McDougall, Owatonna, scalp
wounded.
Margaret Peter, MERIDIAN. cut on
forehead.
Mary Glasby. Minneapolis. right
arm sprained.
Edith Shsckle, Winona, right leg
broken and left arm bruised.
Mrs. James Dineen, Sleepy Eye.
face cut ard right side bruised.
Mrs. E. @. Hillbur, New Ulm, arm
broken.
Daisy Richardson, New Ulm, right
arm and hand broken.
Mrs. A. G. Mcconnell, Brookings,
S. D., back injured and hurt intern
ally.
R. q. Wilde, Milwaukee, collar
bone and arm broken, head cut and
back bruised.
Hannah Jones, Mankato. left arm
broken and bone in right hand broken.
john Keegan, Waseca, left arm
sprained.
Mrs. James LearY. Sleepy Eye, cut
in head and face.
Margaret Jones. child, Mankato.
head badly bruised.
G. N. Stevens, Chicago, wrists
broken.
Mrs. Charles Peterson, badly bruised
about body.
William Kinzie, Winona, conductor,
left leg bruised, back wrenched and
forehead cut. -
Miss Margaret Hangeman, Madelia,
bruised about the BODY.
Mrs John keegan, Waseca, severe
cuts OH right arm, caused by glass.
J. ]. Keko, brakeman, right hip IN.
jured, eye cut.
Rev E. E. Kobe. Glencoe, injury
to left knee.
A. W. Peters, Meriden, wrist dis
located and internal injuries.
Train Lifted From Track.
The storm came up shortly after the
train left Owatonna and some alarm
was felt by passengers, who called
Conductor Kinzie's attention to the
raging elements and asked him if hs
thought there would be any danger
to the train. Darkness came on and 6
brakeman was in the act of lighting
lamp in one of the coaches when il
an instant the train was lifted from
the track, carried about twenty 6v,
feet distant, and turned it down {
ten-foot embankment. The coaches
were badly demolished. The engin,
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happened at 5 80 O. clock.
Engineer Mitchell saw the blacl
cloud coming in all its fury toward
the train and he applied the steam
hoping to send the train ahead a
such speed as to escape its violence
The train was running at the rate o
mile minute when the crash came
The cloud seemed to spread out owe
the cars and descending caught tn
coaches and lifted them from tn
rails, throwing them in heap dowl
the embankment. The whole thinl
occurred within an instant.
The news of the awful acciden
reached Mankato within short tim,
and train was made up to conve.
DR.. G. F. Warner, local surgeon o
the North Western road. a. J. Wager
and others to the scene Physician