River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-12-31

station, and tie operator there, AFTER
reporting this fact, found on going to
the platform that his red signal light,
which had been burning two minutes
before, was out, presumably extln-
guished by thu high wind that was
blowing.
Following is list of those killed:
Mr. and Mrs L. j. Baldwin, Mulliken,
Mich.
Louis BALDWIN. their son, Mulliken.
Lester Wilkins, Lansing, Mich.
Mrs Daisy Giles Lowell, Mich.
Burt Myers Grandville and Lake
Odessa, Mich.
Walter Jordan, Grand Rapids.
Joseph HUI m (colored), Windsor.
Ont.
Austin I. Wager, baggageman, Detroit.
Charles A. Stdddard, engineer, Detroit.
Charles A. Divine, Grand Rapids.
William Heinrich, baggageman, De-
troit.
F. M. Gillett, Burr Oak or Portland,
Mich.
Allen FL. Wells, Big Rapids, Mich.
Frank Burns fireman, Detroit.
Peter W. WiGengo, Grand Rapids.
George Palmer, American Express
agent, Detroit.
William Smith, Saranac, Mich.
Four unidentified men,
The trains mt with terrific crash
the baggage AND smoking cars behind
each locomotive being instantly re-
duced to pile Of kindling wood. The
engines were completely wrecked, the
boiler of that which had pulled the
east-bound train being torn completely
from the running gear and standing
perpendicularly IL a ditch at the side
of the track. TIE collision took place
on a sharp curve.
Within two minutes the uniEjured
male passengers and those of the
train crews who were not hurt had be-
gun the work Vi rescue Travelling
Agent Frank Hewitt, of the Pere Mar
quette, who was on the train bound
for Detroit and who escaped with
slight injuries, ran to the nearest tele-
graph office and telegraphed for a
wrecking train and surgeons. Guided
by groans and cries from the wrecked
cars the rescuers by the light of Ian
terms delved into the wreckage and
with timbers for levers pried out the
sufferers
Disaster i'm Pennsylvania.
Connellsville, Pa, Dec. 24.-With a
terrible crash and a grinding roise
the Duquesne limited, the fastest
through train from Pittsburg to New
York on the Baltimore e Ohio,
ploughed into a lumber pile at Laurel
Run, two miles west of Dawson, at
7:45 o'clock Wednesday evening and
62 lives were lost ana 80 persons in
jured, several of who ON died later.
The train left Pittsburg, running
few minutes late, il charge of En-
gineer William Thornley,, of Connells-
Vile When approaching Laurel Run,
which is a particularly fine piece of
roadbed, the train was running at a
high rate of speed.
Suddenly the passengers were
thrown from their seats by the light
ninglike application of the air brakes
and a moment later there was a ter
rife crash. The train was made up
of two baggage, two day coaches, one
sleeper, and one dining car, and was
carrying at the time, at the lowest
estimate, $50 passengers. The train
ploughed along for considerable dls-
lance and the cars were torn to pieces,
passengers jumping, screaming, fall
ing from the wreck as it tore along.
The minute the cars stopped rolling
there was a wild scene. Many were
pinioned beneath the wreckage and
the screams and cries that rent the
air we're beyond description. Many
were injured in their mad excitement
and plunged into the river. Others,
pinioned beneath the heavy timbers,
plead in agonized tones for release. So
terrific was the force of the wreck
that nearly every passenger suffered
moments Inconsistencies and
many of the able-bodied men were I'M
able to assist in helping the injured
from the wreck on account of having
tainted.