The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-02
News Suppressed in Minneapolis.

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It was nearly noon before the group
of twenty-five or thirty relatives of
passengers on the 500 train who were
waiting at the Milwaukee station in
Minneapolis to greet the arrivals,
learned of the seriousness Of the wreck.
The station officials in reply to their
anxious inquiries, said the train had
been delayed by a minor accident in
st. Paul and did not admit the true
character of the accident until sur
St. Paul on an interurban car, came
into the station. It was then nearly IL
clock and all that time the two daugh-
tiers of Mrs. Cross waited in ignorance
of the fact that their mother was lying
dead in st. Paul The conduct of the
officials at the Milwaukee station in
concealing the seriousness Of the wreck
has been severely criticized.
Care of the Injured. !
The sufferers from slight cuts and
minor injuries were treated on the
ground by surgeons present and went
home on streetcars The Minneapolis
passengers who desired, were sent thru
The passengers who were in the third
remained above the embankment, quick
ly left. the cars as soon as they be-.
came stationary. They were all badly
shaken up and several were more or
less bruised by being thrown from their
seats.
The 500 train, No. Z, was from Sault
Ste. Marie, due in st. Paul at am,
but was twenty-five minutes late. At
tel, unloading the St: Paul passengers
usual for Minneapolis, with the locomo-
tive coupled on the rear Of the train.
Behind it was the dining car, then the
| three sleepers, then a tourist car, and
| coaches.
The stock train was made up Of
| thirty-two cars. The Great Western en-
gineer secured his train at. the Northern
| Pacific yards, Mississippi street, and
started on his way to South ST ST., f ia u:
of the Northern Pacific to Minneapolis.
At the end of the Union depot yards,
the 500 train came to a stop, 200 feet
from the fatal railroad crossing, then
started again to climb the grade in
front Of it The stock train was COM
ing down the l.3 per cent grade on an
| intersecting track. Tho the brakes
on the stock train had been tested at
Mississippi street and found in good
condition., the engineer, Herbert E. Sny-
der, found almost as soon as the train
commenced to coast down the slope that
the brakes would no longer do their
brakes a long distance before striking
the crossing, and Their ewas then moth
ing for him to do but to wait for the
inevitable.
How the Crash Came.
The engine of the passenger and one
car had gone over the crossing in safe
ty, when the locomotive Of the stock
train, with the momentum and weight
Of the heavy cars behind it, struck the
second sleeper, throwing it and the
sleeper behind it over the Phalen ditch
embankment, hurting both cars over the
intervening ten feet from the tracks tc
the edge Of the retaining wall.
The sleeper Dakota, the first struck
went over the bank first. The from
4 Of the sleeper landed on the ston,
walls that line the creek. The ca
whirled completely over, the trucks land
ing right end up, while the sleeper la,
over on one side. The Algoma, tn
Canadian Pacific, made revolution AM
a half in falling and landed on it's roof
The fact that the heavy frames of tn
sleepers retained their form probabl,
accounts for the fact that the fatal
ties and injuries were not more nu
merous. The terrific force with whic]
the sleepers struck demolished thei
interiors, smashing all the windows
throwing seats about with great force
and covering the unfortunate passenger
with broken glass, splinters and broker
timbers. .'s
! The engine of the stock train stoppe,
it's mad dash by tearing off one end o
: the fourth car, the sleeper Missianabie
The dining car and other coaches 0
the passenger were showed back on thei
track, practically uninjured.
The Great Western engine escape
with battered buffer and the >tearin
; off of the platform on the left side
Aside of. the smashing Of one Of tn
7 cattle cars and the killing Of two cal
tie, the freight suffered no further dan
age.
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