The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1902-09-05
WAS | DEATH.DEAL|AG CYCLONE
Tears Chicago Northwestern Passenger Train to Taters
Kills and Injuries Many People.
AWFUL WRECK.
.MANkATOIANS IN THE
Among the Dead and Her Sister Severely Hurt
Miss Hannah ZONES, Mankato Public School
....". Teacher Suffers Broken Bones.

from Owatonna and Waseca were car.
ried to the wreck, Engineer Mitchell
having run his locomotive to the latter
place as soon as possible where he gave
the information of what had happened
to his train.
Help From 0watonna.
About 6 o'clock west bound freight
train in charge of Conductor Stewart,
which was following the passenger
train, came upon the wreckage and al
once was backed into Owatonns at full
speed for help. All the physicians and
surgeons in the city were summoned
to the station and in the caboose hur-
ried to the scene of the wreck and
cared for the injured, who had been
carried to Mr.. Reiter's farm house
nearby and had been made as comfort
able as possible with cushions and
blankets upon the ground.
At 8 40 O'Clock second train went
out from Mankato in charge of Con-
ductor Richardson, who had been in
formed of the serious injury to his
daughters and the doubts Of the re-
covery of Miss Ethel. Also W. F.
Jones was aboard this train going to
the side of his daughter, Margaret
who was in the wreck, but who for
tunatelv escaped with slight injury.
The scene that ensued after the
crash occurred was one of indescrib-
able confusion. The passengers were
hurled forward by the sudden stoppsg Q
of speed and those sitting on the south
side of the coaches were thrown vio-
lently to the north, naming and
bruising those who had been opposite
them, but were now underneath.
Others fell through the windows,
and when the Car settled were pinned
between the car and the ground. It
W rs in this way that Master Peterson
was killed. He was found when =. the
wreckage was cleared away partly
beneath the Car crushed almost to a
pulp.
Miss Richardson's Death.
The Misses Richardson boarded the
train at Winona and were returning
to their home in New ,Ulm, after a
visit with friends in the former place.
Miss Ethel Richardson was still alive
when taken from the Car. She was
caught between the seats, her breast
seemed TO be crushed in and her lungs
filed with blood. She lived an hour
and half The unknown woman is
supposed to be Alma Bickford, as on
her person was found an envelope ad
dressed to a woman of that name,
which contained deed of land in
Freeborn county signed by Charles
Bickford.
Few, if any, of the passengers e.
capped without injury. All were more
or less bruised by the fall and many
were cut by the glass of the windows,
which were all instantly shivered.
The names of only those who sustained
severe injuries are given above.
Farmers Give Aid.
Immediately after the accident the
rain began to fall in torrents, but the
storm was of brief duration, and soon
the work of rescue began, at first by
those of the passengers whose injuries
were but slight. and later by the
farmers who lived near.
During all this time the work of
taking the injured passengers from
the train has been going on. Many
were 80 pinned between the seats or
under the cars that it was necessary
almost to demolish the coach before
they could be taken out. Some of
them were carried to the wrecking
train, where their wounds were
dressed. More were taken to farm
house near by, which was turned into
an emergency hospital, and there
everything was done that could be to
bind up their wounds and assuage
their pain. In the meantime many
people had driven ..out from Owatonna
on hearing the news of the wreck and
gave prompt aid to the sufferers.
At about 8 o'clock the surgeons had
finished the emergency work and the
injured were in a condition to be
moved. The greater number of them
were shortly afterwards put on the
train and taken to Waseca, where
several of them lived, others to go for
ward to their homes further along
the line. The dead were. taken to
Waseca. Those of the injured pas
sengers whose hurts were of more
serious nature were shortly after
wards taken, some in carriages and
other by train, to Owatonna, where
they were conveyed in an ambulance
to the city hospital to receive the
surgical care the serious nature of
their wounds demanded. It is a pc
culiar fact in connection with the