The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-31
ENGINEER SAW THE DANGER
AND ATTEMPTED To RUN FROM THE
FUNNEL-sHAPED FURY,
But the Train Was Caught I'm Its EN-
brace and Partly Crushed to splin-
ters-List of Victims.

wASECA, Mimi. Aug. 3o.-Three persons
were killed. two fatally injured and more
than a score of others hurt tonight in the
wreck of a train which had been hurled
down an embankment by tornado. Train
No. Z. west-bound. on the Chicago & North
western Railway, consisting of locomotive.
a baggage car and two crowded passenger
cars, was struck by the tornado while run
ming at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour
two miles from Meridian. The passenger
and baggage cars were hurled eighteen feet
down the embankment to the fence guard
ing the right of way. A brakeman had
been lighting the lamps when the crash
came and the wreckage was ignited by the
OIL
The Dead
DELMAR PETERSON, five years old,
Waseca, MINI.
WOMAN supposed TO be Anna ]. Bick-
ford, Albert Lea, MINI
MISS EVA RICHARDSON, New Ulm,
Mimi. hurt internally. died tonight
Fatally Injured
A. c. MCCONNELL, Brookings, S. D.;
hurt internally.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, crushed
T. n. KNAVOLD. Albert Lea. state SEN
ator and candidate for Congress; four ribs
broken.
FRANK MADDEN. news agent. waseca;
head cut.
JOHN sCoLLEJERDEs. Meridian: shoul-
der disloeated
MISS EDITH sHACKLE, winona: left
arm and hip fractured. face lacerated.
JOHN KEoGAN. waseca; left arm
sprained.
MRS JAMES DENEEN, Sleepy Eye,
Minn,; right hip bruised and face lacerated.
MISS RUTH JONES, worthington.
Mimi; arm fractured.
MRS. MARGARET JONES. worthington;
injured internally.
r. H. WILDE. Milwaukee: shoulder dis
located, left arm broken and injured in
ternally.
MISS CAROLINE A MCUNE, Worth
ington; head injured.
MRS. CHARLES GREENE, Owatonna;
forehead cut, left side bruised.
r. d. MDOUGALL, owatonna; scalp
wound.
RICHARD BERDEN. Meridian: forehead
badly cut.
Girls GREGG. Marion, o.; ear cut of and
legs and chest crushed.
MISS z. c. HILMER. New Ulm: head
cut and injured internally.
JOHN ROSENAU. Meridian: left arm
broken.
MISS MARY classy. Kasson, Mimi:
left arm broken.
GEORGE DECLINE. Austin, MINI; head
injured.
E. N. STEVENS. Chicago: cut by flying
glass.
E. F; wENDT. Badger. Wis; internally
injured.
The engineer is reported to have seen
the tornado in apparent pursuit of the
train and scarcely an instant before the
storm cloud struck the cars the train gave
a lurch in a sudden squirt to evade the
funnel-shaped fury.
Fully an hour and half elapsed before
a wrecking train arrived. The locomotive
did not leave the track. the baggage car
and passenger coaches having been twisted
off if by giant hands and hurled down.
ward to the bottom OF the embankment.
The baggage car was shattered 10 splinters.
The two dead persons were jammed in
the wreckage and their bodies were cut out
with axes. 1t is feared that more bodies
may be found underneath the debris. and
wrecking gangs sent from waseca are at
work on the crushed cars.
The brakeman. who was lighting the
lamps in one Of the passenger coaches
when the tornado struck. cannot be found
tonight Ii is feared his body may be in
the wreckage. Passengers saw him hurled
against the underside Of the coach with
terrific force, and at the same time the
lamp ne had been trimming was crushed
Oil from the vessel was ignited by the
flame on the wick and 10 the terrors OF
death by violence was added the danger
Of death by fire for those OF the victims
who were imprisoned in the wreckage. But
men who were the first to pick their way
out of the splinters. extinguished the
flames before attempting to aid the sur
vivors
A train was hastily made up and the in
jured and bodies OF the dead were taken
to waseca. where physicians attended to
the seriously injured.
Eva Richardson died from her injuries aft
er reaching Waseca.
The damage by the tornado In Owatonna
was not great. and was confined 10 a mar
row path.
Railway OmeIals Go To the scene.
CHICAGO. Aug. 30.-Oficials OF the Chi
cago & Northwestern Railroad said tonight
that they had Information whatever re-