The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-24
Railway Accident Kills Nine Pas
sengers En- Route on a
Christmas Holiday.
SIX WOUNDED TO THE DEATH
Twenty-Five Others Hurt, Some Of
Whom May Die.
Rescuers Fight Fire to Save the In
jured from Freight
and Passenger Trains
Collide.

st. Paul, Dec. 24.-Nine persons are
known to be dead, six others are fatal.
" injured, and at least twenty-five
others were badly hurt in the wreck
Of an cast bound train on the Min
neapons, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie
railroad at Enderlin, y. D. The train
wrecked was the accommodation train
which huns from Moose Jaw, Sask., to
st. Paul. The engineer was running
at high speed in an endeayor to make
up lost time. At Enderlin a switch en-
CINE was shifting a string of box cars
to a side track The cars did rot clear
the main track and the passenger. en-
CINE coilided head-on with the switch
engine.
Passengers Were Holiday Makers.
Both engines were totally wrecked
and tho passenger cars were thrown
III confusion down q small embank-
Inent at the side OF the track. Several
of the day coaches were turned bot
tom side up and the passengers pinned
beneath the wreckage, which took fire
from the stoves used to heat the cars
Tho passenger train was heavily load
ed with people going to their homes
In the east to spend the holidays.
Had Race with the Fire Fiend.
A rescue party was soon at hand
endeavoring to release the imprisoned
passengers from their perilous position.
The groans Of the dying mingled with
the cries Of anguish of the passengers
less severely hurt. but who were in i'm
minent danger from the flames which
were fast spreading through the cars
Axes We're welded by willing hands
and the roofs of the overturned cars
were broken open and the dead and
injured taken out as quickly as posi-
sible. It was q race between the res
cuerS and the flames, but by herculean
efforts all of the injured We're removed
before the flames reached them.
These Lost Their Lives.
Nine dead bodies were taken out
and laid beside the track, while the in
jured We're taken in hastily improvised
&mbulances to the hospital and when
that institution had all that it could
possibly accommodate the rest of the
injured were cared for in the hotels
The list of those dead is as follows:
Charles Backus. Bergen, n. D.; II. J.
Nolkering, Anamoose, N. D., en- route
to visit his mother at Osceola, Wis. :;
John Satterburg, Anamoose, N. D.;
Tony eileen, Volva, n. D.: D. J.
Berresford, Medicine Hat, Alberta: II.
Rosenbaum. Volva, n. D.; w. ]. Dan
ielson, Sheldon. Mimi; A. o. Anderson.
Starbuck, Mimi. Nels Hansen Ken
mare, n. D.
Six Others Likely to Die.
OF the injured six are so badly hurt
that the physicians in attendance say
that their recovery is impossible. 9th
ers injured are believed to have a
chance for their lives, although it is
/ possible that the death roll may be
somewhat increased.
List of Injured Not ProcurabIe.
It has so far been impossible to Sc
cure list of those injured in the
wreck. Claim agents and other Off
Gals Of the railroad have taken charge
of the injured and absolutely refuse
either to give out a list of those hurt.
or to permit newspaper correspondents
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