The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-14

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mail car. refrigerator car, baggage car.
smoker, two day coaches and two sleep
ers, made up in the order named.
Coaches Turn Completely Over.
The two day coaches turned COM
pletely over, and it was the passengers
In these cars who were the most seri-
ously injured. None of the occupants
of the sleepers were injured, those in
the last car not even being shaken up.
When the day coaches overturned the
passengers were thrown from their
seats, which became detached from the
floor, and all were piled in the top Of
the car. The windows were broken
and many of the passengers made their
exit through the windows.
A gasoline tank in one of the coaches
caught fire, but was extinguished be-
fore any damage was done
The Injured were cared for in the
sleeping cars until physicians could be
summoned from DaSSel and other
points, and as soon as possible a relief
train was sent to the rescue and the
injured were brought to st. Paul. where
they were given further medical at
tention.
The man who was killed was steal
ing ride, having secured a place on
the rods underneath the smoker. There
was nothing on his person by which he
could be identified, but in his pockets
was found $65.
Arthur E. Hennessy, of St Louis.
who suffered a dislocation of the hip
and internal injuries, is being cared
for at st. Joseph'S hospital, but the
other injured were able to proceed to
their homes after their injuries had
been dressed. They were temporarily
cared for by the Great Northern at the
Merchants, Foley and Metropolitan ho-
tells
Passengers Tell of the Wreck.
w. n. Horn, a merchant of South
English, Iowa, was IN one of the day
coaches which overturned. He suffered
a broken collar bone, a hip bruise and
scalp wound.
THE first intirnatIon had that there
was something wrong" said Mr.. Horn
to 7 h e Clio b e, was when our car
appeared to be off the track and run
ming on the ties. Before 1 could leave
| my seat, however, the car was over
| turned, and 1 was mixed up with
seats, baggage and little of every
! thing, it seemed to me. A seat struck
me on the shoulder, breaking my collar
| bone, and was cut some by the flying
! glass. Almost everyone in the car was
piled in a heap, and my first thought
was that many were killed. 1 lost no
! time in getting out of the car through
a window from which the glass had
been broken. When the damage was
all summed up l considered the wreck
a most fortunate one"
Charles Conkling, a business man Of
| Bellevue, Iowa, was another of the in
| jured who was riding in the day coach
with Mr.. Horn. He suffered a frac-
| tured arm and the ligamentS of the
wrist were badly torn. Mr. COnkling
thus describes his experience:
1t all happened so quickly that 1
hardly realized what was the matter
until it was over 1 was sitting in a
seat next to the aisle and when the
car started to overturn 1 tried to get
up. I caught hold of a seat, but a
piece of baggage fell and broke my
| hold. 1 was then thrown to the top
of the car and it was some little time
before l could release myself Some
one yelled fire, and 1 thought we should
all be burned to death before we could
get out. Cool heads however, put out
the fire and myself and twenty others
who were in the coach were soon re-
leased.
1.-The confusion following the wreck
could not have been worse had a dozen
been killed. Women ran out of the
sleeping cars and screamed at the top
of their voice. Many of them ran
away from the wreck, going back into
the woods where they could not see
that ten or more had been killed and
some of the women who were separated
from their husbands were almost fran
tic.
I'VE were we'll cared for under the
conditions, and doctors were soon on
the scene to dress our wounds. 1t was
my first experience in a wreck, and L
never want another one. The few Sec
onds l was pinned in the car, with the
cries of fire ringing in my ears, were
the worst l ever experienced. L never
expected to be taken out alive"
E. A. Lornson, travelling man for
McKibbin. Driscoll & Dorsey, of st.
Paul, was one of the passengers in the
last sleeper.
THE people in our car scarcely knew
that anything had happened" said Mr..
Lornson. There was a very slight jar
when the wreck occurred and it was
not until someone looked out and saw
the cars down the embankment that
we realized that there had been a
wreck. None of the passengers in the
sleepers were injured in the least. The
train, I should judge was running
about forty miles an hour"
Conductor Has Narrow Escape.
Conductor Deyaney, who lost the mid
die finger of his left hand in the wreck,
was passing from the door of the sleep
er when that car left the track. His
hand was caught between the end Of
the sleeper and the coach when the
two jumped from the track.
L cannot tell how 1 escaped being
crushed between the two cars" said
Conductor Devaney. 81 fell back into
the doorway when the crash came, and
but for that 1 might have been crushed
between the two cars. l was imme-
diately upon my feet after the cars
had landed upon the ground, and there
was plenty of work to attend to then"
81 had just arisen from my birth,
and had completed my toilet, when I
felt a shock said ]. M. Avent, of
Hickory Valley, Tenn, who occupied
one of the berths of the rear sleeper
y turned to a companion and said,
guess we've had wreck but, as our
car remained on the track, it was not
until l looked from the window that
saw the extent of the accident.
The mail car and the engine were
a distance down the track, and L saw
that the accident had occurred on ac-
count of the splitting of the train. Two
ears were completely tipped over. The
baggage car had left the rails and was
leaning against a car which 1 after
wards learned was the fish car. The
sleeper ahead of the one upon which !
had been riding was thrown from it's
trucks and the car was tipped side
ways.
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