The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-02
CRASH OF TRAINS
IN ST. PAUL YARDS
Great Western Freight Cuts 500
Line Passenger Trains
in Two.
sLEEPERs ARE WRECKED:
ONE DEAD, MANY INJURED
Accident Occurred at a Crossing,
the Freight Being Beyond
Control.
DEAD.
MRS. CLARA NORTON CROSS,
aged 65 years, 2434 Stevens avenue,
DEAD.

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MRS. CLARA NORTON CROSS,
aged 65 years, 2434 Stevens avenue,
Minneapolis. ID
e. S. Martin, aged 26 years, 1899 Port
land avenue, Minneapolis, head Injured
and probable Internal Injuries. May be
fatal. r.
J. p. wilkinson, aged As years. 1912
Twenty third avenue N. Minneapolis,
head and right hip Injured. Very Sc
rlous.
Franklin Lyons, aged 81 years, 1913 Sew
enteenth avenue Sc, Minneapolis, back
injured and otherwise bruised. VIII re-
cover. n = -
Mrs. Henry peutsch, aged % years,
27o5 Fremont avenue S, Minneapolis.
Wrenched and spralned. Not serious.
| n. S. Norris, coIored, aged 43 years,
Montreal, sleeping car porter. Head and
neck Injured. Serlous.s
James 6lrdeaux, coiored, aged 4a
years, I FalrvieW avenue, St. Paul. Sleep
Ing car porter. Head, back and legs in
Jured. Will recover. -.
Mrs. Thompson Hall, aged 81 years, s14
Sixth street S, Minneapolis. Scalp
wounds. VIII recover. s..
| William A. Hail. aged 80 years, 1000
Dupont avenue S. Minneapolis. Collar
bone fractured, right hand acerated,
scalp wounds. Viii recover.
Crashing into 500 line passenger
| train from the: east, a heavily loaded
stock train on the Chicago Great West
ern road caused the worst wreck in. the
am. yesterday, at the crossing between
! Fourth and Sixth streets. One pas
senger was killedsand eight more or less
seriously injured in the collision and
! twenty persons. were imprisoned in
4 the mass of wreckage when two of the
sleeping cars wer hurled over an eigh.
4 teen-foot embankment, landing bottom
The 500 train had just pulled out Of
the st. Paul union depot, having dis
!. charged its ST. Paul passengers, and
was headed for Minneapolis. The pas
senger had the right Of way, haYine
, reached the crossing Of the tracks first
The train stopped, according to rules
T and then started oversthe crossing. Thu
| stock train should have stopped, but il
: was coming on down grade and thu
brakes, which the, engineer had tried t.
d apply as soon as be found his train be
yond his control. sSased to We ksss-sss-s -.
. Engine strikes sleepers.
81 = E d
: The locomotive Of the stock trai,
t plowed into the central portion Of tn
Sooy passenger. Two Of the sleepin,
q cars were lifted and hurled over al
4eighteen-foot embankment into Phale!
i creek ditch, where they landed bottom
4 side up. The front Of 2 third car wa
: crushed in for several feet. .*.....
: The engine of the Great Weston
q stock train plowed thru the wreckag
u till it reached the tracks on which wer
= the remaining coaches of the passenge
t train, and then sank into the earth. Th
i first stock car following. the engine wa
s crushed and the uninjured stock es
a capped.
d Twenty persons were imprisoned q
the bottom of the embankment in tn
overturned sleepers, some pinioned b
broken timbers and seats. all more 0
less injured, cut and bruised. Tn
:, railway employees in the yards at ono