Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-08-31
BRAKEaAps LAMP lGNITEs The CAR
Blaze is E1tinguiEhed by Prompt Efforts .
the Survivors.
FLYING GLASS LACEUATEs MANY FACES
Unconscious Forms Are Rescued from
the Pile of wreckaEe with Axes
storm Toys with the
Train. r.

were killed, three fatally injuredts 81 ore
than a score Of others hurt ~ ming
in the wreck Of a train whicl been
hurled down an embankment by & ado.
westbound train on thu ago &
Northwestern railway, consis' an en-
gine, a baggage coach ane crowded
passenger cars, was strucl tornado
while running at the rate thirty-fve
miles an hour, two miles from Meridian.
The passenger and baggage cars were
hurled eighteen feet down the embsnk-
ment to the fence guarding the right-of-
way A brakeman had been lighting the
lamps when the crash came and the wreck
age was ignited by the spilling oil.
The dead are:
DELMAR PETERSON, aged years. Wa
SEGA, MINI.
WOMAN, SUPPOSED TO BE ANNA J.
BICKFORD. Albert Lea, MINI.
The fatally injured are:
Miss Eva Richardson, New Ulm, Minn.,
hurt internally.
internally.
Unidentified woman, crushed.
The other casualties were as follows:
T. N. Knavold, Albert Lea, state sena-
tor and candidate for congress. four ribs
broken.
Frank Madden, news agent, waseca, head
cut.
e. N. Stevens, 20 Best avenue, Chicago,
cut by flying glass.
Y. 2. werat, Badger. wis. internally
injured.
John scollejerdes. Meridian. shoulder dis
located.
Miss Edith shackle, winona, left arm
and hip fractured; face lacerated.
John Keegan, Waseca, left arm sprained.
Mrs. James Deenen, Sleepy Eye, Mimi,
right hip bruised and face lacerated.
Miss Ruth Jones. Worthington, Mimi.
arm fractured.
Mrs. Margaret Jones, worthington, In
jured internally.
r. H. Wilde, Milwaukee, shoulder dislo-
Gated, left arm broken and injured inter-
nally.
Miss Caroline A. McCune. worthington,
| head injured.
Mrs. Charles Greene. owatonna, fore
head cut and left side bruised.
r. d. McDougall, Owatonna, scalr
wound.
Richard Borden. Meridian. forehead
badly cut.
Charles Gregg Marion. o.. ear cut of
and legs and chest crushed.
Miss E. @. Hilmer, New Ulm, head cnt
and badly injured internally
John Rosenau, Meridian, left arm broken
Miss Mary Glasby. Kasson, Mimi. left
arm broken.
George Deohne. Austin. Mimi. head in
iured.
Follows the Train.
The engineer is reported to have seen tn
tornado in apparent pursuit of the train. an,
] hafo H. L. a.
struck the cars the train gave a lurch. l
was o'clock when the train was struck.
Fully an hour and a half elapsed before
wrecking train arrived. The engine di
not leave the track. The baggage car an
passenger coaches were twisted of as IL b
giant hands and hurled downward to tn
bottom of the embankment. The baggag
car was shattered to splinters. The tw
dead were 1ammed in the wreckage an
their bodies were cut out with axes. 1t 1
feared that more bodies may be found un
derneath the debris and the wrecking gan
sent from Waseca is at work on the shat
tered cars
The brakeman, who was lighting tn
lamps in one of the passenger coache
when the tornado struck, cannot be foun
tonight II Is feared his body Is In tn
wreck. Passengers saw him strike the un
der side of the coach with terrific fore
and at the same time the lamp he ha
I been trimming crashed into splinters. Oi
from the vessel was ignited from the fam
on the wick and to the terror Of death b
! violence was added the danger Of deaf
by FIRE for those OF the victims who wer
imprisoned in the wreckage
But men who were the first to pick thei
way out of the splinters FASTENED to ex
l tinguish the flames. devoting their atten
tion to this task before attempting tn
work Of reseuing the injured survivors
The injured and bodies of the dead wer
brought TO Waseca, where physicians o.
tended to the seriously injured. Eva Riet
ardson died from her injuries after reach
ing Waseea. The damage by the cyclone 1
owatonna was not great and was confne
to a narrow path.