Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-02
TWO OR THREE vii
PASSENGER BRAKES FAIL TO WORK
Engineer Unable 20 stop Train Before
II Reaches Intersection of Tracks
Both Trains were Run
inR Rapidly.

ST PAUL, oct. IA Chicago Great Wes-
tern stock train, running about twenty
miles an hour as 1t was going to the ST.
Paul yards at $3.50 o'clock this morning
struck the middle Of a 500 line passenger
train which had Just left the Union station
and hurled two Pullman sleepers over a
retaining wall to the bottom of a gully
twenty feet below. One sleeper landed bot
tcm side up and the other fell on It's side.
Both cars were badly wrecked. one woman
was so badly injured that she died in st.
Joseph's hospital shortly after being taken
there and nine Others were seriously in
jured. while score or more were less
seriously hurt. The 500 train had arrived
from Montreal thirty minutes late and
was bound for Minneapolis. running 50
witnesses say, about thirty miles an hour.
As it neared Fourth street, the track on
which It was running leads to an inside
double track. Here the engineer of the
500 train sighted ;he Great Western Cattle
train going for the South st. Paul stock
yards and heading for split switch which
connects the outside and inside tracks.
The engineer of the Great Western train
whistled for breaks showing that his air
breaks were not working and as a warning
to the 500 tram, but IT was evidently not
heard as the 500 train failed to slacken.
Train Nearly Empty.
The engine and first sleeper OF the 500
train got safely across the switch, but the
second and third seepers were hit The
end of the fourth sleeper was partially
wrecked. That no more were killed or
injured Is due TO the fact that the train
ives nearly empty. having discharged the
greater number OF its passengers at the
Union depot here
Revised list of the dead and injured:
Dead:
MRS. CHARA NJ. CROSS, Minneapolis
died at st. Josephs hospital.
J. P. Wilkinson aged As, Minneapolis
head and right hip injured, very seriously
q. S. Martin. head badly bruised
Mrs Hendy Deutsch, 2S years old, Min.
neapolis. back and head hurt. seriously
head M9FF a Pssa See - hS4s canada
back injured and bruised, viii recover.
Mrs Thompson Hall, aged %. Minneapolis
William A. Hall. aged 49, travelling audi
tor 500 road, Minneapolis, collar bone frac'
James Burdau, AZ, porter, st. Paul, head
back and legs injured, serious.
Hall Wilkinson, aged 49, Minneapolis
Frank Martin. Brooklyn. N. Y slight,
hurt.
G. J. Keenan,, New York slightly hurt.
Miss Cruglin, New York, slightly hurt.
Injured May Die.
OF the seriously injured there are six mel
and two women at st. Joseph's hospital
OF these It is feared two or three may die
Mr.. Martin. who has a fractured skull. 4
in a critical condition.
About twenty were treated at the Uniol
depot by surgeons. and nearly all of then
were able to go to hotels or continue thei
Journey to Minneapolis, the destination O
the train. The Mis- Crughlin Of New York
whose name appears among the list 0
slightly injured, was able to go to a hote
after her injuries were attended to by
surgeon.
The direct cause of the accident was tn
failure OF the air brakes on the stock trai
TO work. The 500 Line passenger train ha
Just left the depot for Minneapolis an
was crossing the Chicago Great Wester
tracks, about four blocks east of the sta
tion. The track runs along a high EN-
bankment at this point The fast Grea
Western stock train coming along at
good speed struck the passenger train abou
I'm the middle. hurling the Pullman coache
over the embankment and they landed ur
side down in a wrecked heap, twenty -fiv
feet below. The wreckage caught fire bU
Il was promptly extinguished by the S
Paul fire department. A squad of polio
and all the hospital ambulances Of the cit
with large corps OF surgeons were on III
spot in short time and the injured wer
quickly taken from the wreck and sent
the hospital.