The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-01
TRAIN BLOWN
FROM ITS TRACK
Three Killed and Over Thirty In
jured:by Tornado Which Wrecks
, Ns &C. & NV. Passenger.
Injuries of Two Others Are Fatal
Marrow Escape of Sen. Knat-
void of Albert Lea.
Storm and Train Met Six Miles
From,the Little Station of
Meriden, MINI.

waseca Mimi. Sept. IA Chicago & |
North Western passenger train was hurled
by tornado from the track and wrecked |
near Meriden, six miles fnom here, at $40 |
Saturday afternoon.
AS result, three persons are dead. two
more are dying and more than score are |
suffering from serious injuries.
Among the injured is Senator T. v.
Knatvold, candidate for congress In the |
first district. |
What was once the baggage Of the |
train lies in the ditch, a mass Of splinters
and old iron, beside two passenger
coaches, their wheels in the air. and their
roofs buried in the ground. ..i- |
The Dead. u"
DELMAR PETERSON, aged S. waseca. |
ETHEL RICHARDSON. New Uln.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN.
Fatally Injured.
ALM1RA J. B1CKFoRD. Albert Lea.
A. c. MCCONNELL, Bookings, 8. D.
Others lnJuted.
A. w. Peters, Meriden; wrist dislocated
and internal Injuries.
Margaret Peters, Meriden; cut on head;
not serious
Rev. E. E. Kobe. Glencoe:. injury to
left knee.
]. j. Reko,s brakeman, Winona; right
hip injured, eye cut.
Daisy Richardson, New Ulm; fracture of
bones Of right hand, left eye cut and
bruised.
Mrs. Charles Peterson. Waseca bruised
and hysterical from shock
Mrs. Leary, Sleepy Eye; injured about
face and head.
Mrs. John Keegan, Waseca; severe cuts
| on right arm, caused by glass.
| Miss Margaret Hangeman, Madelia;
| bruised about the body.
Mrs. Jay Williams, Lake Crystal;
bruised about the body and suffering from
| nervous shock
Senator T. V. Knatvold, Albert Lea
| two ribs fractured.
Frank Madden, news agent, waseca,
head cut.
John schollejerdes, Meriden; shoulders
| dislocated %.,-.'' 49, ~. ..-... o..
John Keegan, Waseca left arm bruised.
Mrs. James Dineen, Sleepy Eye, right
hip bruised, face badly cut.
| Miss Margaret JONES' Worthington, In
jured internally.
Miss Ruth Jones, Worthington, left
wrist fractured.
R. H. Wilde, Milwaukee, shoulders in
jured, left arm broken, injured Internally
Miss Caroline A. McCune, Worthington,
| head injured.
| Mrs. Charles Green, Owatonna: forehead
cut. left side bruised
R. l.. McDougal, Owatonna, scalp
wound.
Richard Borden. Meriden, forehead cut
Chris Gregg, Marion, Ohio. part Of left
ear cut off, legs and chest injured.
Conductor W. H. Kinsey, Waseca, left
hip injured head cut, shoulders bruised.
| Miss e. c. Hillmer, New Ulm, face in
ljured, hurt internally.
John Rosenau, Meriden; left arm in
jured.
Miss Mary CLASSIFY Kasson, left arm
broken.
George Decline, Austin, head cut.
/ F.. N. Stevens. 20 Best avenue Chicago;
wrists cut by glass.
E. F. Wendt, Badger, Wis, internally
injured.
Raced With a Cloud.
The train. made up of an engine, a bag
gage car and two coaches, left Owatonna
for the west soon after 5 o'clock. with
ae-"ut sixty passengers on board. It was
e barge Of Conductor Kinsey and En-
ineer Mitchell, and was filled mainly with
residents Of the little towns and cities
through which the road runs. 49,.
Suddenly there arose in front of the
train. and slightly to- one side, a huge
black cloud, driven forward at race horse
speed by wind that seemed to have
speed by a wind that seemed to have
chell noticed the dangerous looking cloud,
and had made up his mind that safety
lay In getting ahead Of it. He threw open
the throttle.
Faster and faster ran the train, and
faster and faster leaped the sullen cloud
that menaced the terror stricken passen-
| gers. In an instant the air grew so dark
that to see the length of a car was i'm
possible. '
With a crash and jar the train came
to a standstill, but only for an instant
The weight Of the engine proved too much
for the cyclone which 1eaped over the
DOnlorOuS rna china I'D .otf oolxo. tto 49,
gage car and the coaches, with their HUI.
man freight
/ Lifted Bodily from the Track.
The baggage car was lifted bodily from
the track. the coupling wrenched apart
and the car piled in a heap against the
fence at the edge of the right Of way
about twenty feet away.
The two passenger coaches followed ar
instant later. They were picked up, hel(
. | high in the air for a moment and Their
| slammed down on the wreckage Of thu
= | baggage car bottom side up, with force
- that broke all the windows and mashet
4 some Of the seats to fragments.
!. = Screams Of the Injured.
I. From the mass Of ,wreckage at the sid,
n Of the track arose the screams Of tn,
d mangled and bruised men and women
|, hemmed in by debris Of all kinds, an,
e cropping in the dark for an exit from tn
~ overturned cars, . '...
Cries of anguish were arising from al
parts of the debris, and body after bod,
was drawn out. In many cases it wa
necessary to chop away heavy tin1bers be
fore the bleeding victims could be extri
Gated.
AS fast as the injured were release
from the pinionin6 wreckage, they wer
hastily, cared for and then laid at the sid
Of the track. 90
|... .. -e@%:
.->. Relief Trains. - -
AS soon as the injured had been draw
from the, wreckage, Engineer Mitchell "a
TO Merloen and autographed the news {
- the disaster to this city,. a.,~, - 4 Ill.
at Two special relief trains were hastil
IN equipped with doctors and supplies an
I'd rushed to the scene of the wreck. BY tn
. time these trains arrived the injured an
the dead had been taken to a farmhous