The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-01-29

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The firemen, after time, mastered
the flames. The wreckage was at
tackled again and the work of recover
Ing the bodies was begun. Out of the
first car eight bodies were taken.
The sight while the wreck was burn
Ing was horrifying. Men could be seen
IN the Wreckage pinned fast amid the
tlmbers of the cars and struggling to
be free while the flames roared around
them. The rescuers were helpless to
aid them, as they already had been
driven from the wreck by the flames.
man pinned in, found that he was held
down by one leg near the ankle, and
seeing it would be useless to do any
cred the mans leg and then carried
him to one Of the parlor cars. Both
rescued and rescuers we're seriously
burned.
Flames Add to the Horror.
When the engine ploughed into the
rear car, it partly split the car open
and at the same time lifted it up and
onto itself. This car was the first to
take fire and most of those in it are
dead. Some of them are believed to
he beneath the overturned engine.
Those in the car ahead, which was
lifted over the rear car, suffered the
most, for, some time before the flames
reached them from the car below and
behind them, they we're enveloped in
smoke and steam, and it was here that
the worst scenes were witnessed. The
imprisoned ones begged for death to
end their agonies and implored those
who were laboring to get them free
to crush their heads with the axes
they were using to chop away the
wreckage.
A Westfeld doctor went into the
wreck and bandaged and treated the
injured even before they were re-
leased. Some of those he treated were
afterwards suffocated or burned to
death.
Just as the wreck occurred an east
bound train was approaching on track
2. Before it could be stopped the en-
CINE crashed into the wreckage which
had been hurled onto the track, but
it was light stuff AMI the engine
brushed it aside and crushed part of
it under the wheels,
Before the wreckage had cooled the
work of getting out the charred bod
les began. Men attacked the heap.
with poles and rods of iron taken from
the pile of debris and raked out ~
Several Arms, Legs and Heads.
Many of those who died will never be
recognized, the bodies being burned to
crisp.
Quick work was made in furnishing
train for the handling of the dead
and injured. Railroad men tore out
the iron frames of the seats in the
special train and laid the cushions in
two rows along the sides of the cars.
These were later supplemented by
pillows and mattresses from the Pull
man coaches of the Royal Blue.
It is impossible to give any authentic
list Of the missing A list would in
clude scoes of men and women who are
now at home safely.
The railroad officials say the signals
were in working order and that they
were properly set, and that the express
overran and dashed into the block in
which the slower train already was.
Railroad men here say the engineer
lEsE5f5 bly, led to notice the signals
and even when he saw the tail lights
of the train ahead did not realize for a
moment that they we're on the same
track that he was, instead of being on
track 4, where they usually were.
Travelling over sixty miles an hour,
with heavy train behind him, it was
utterly impossible to stop when he re-
allied the truth.