Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1906-03-14
WRECK IN SN0WST0RM.
1 w0 KILLED And FOUR INJURED
At GoDsEND, O.
Dozen Injured Near North Hanover [Ill.)
and Several Hurt on Burlington
in Colorado

TOLEDO, O., March 1.-Two killed
and fourteen injured, one of whom may
die, is the list of casualties in a wreck
Of two freight trains and a fast passen-
ger train. No. Z, on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, which occurred at il 30
o'clock Sunday. about two miles from
BlOOmdale.
The Dead and Injured.
The dead:
HOFFMAN. JOHN. Chicago Junction,
fireman passenger train.
HOY, W., Wheeling, w Va, postal clerk.
The seriously injured:
Otto Leo, FoStora, circus performer;
head scalded and cut.
Edward Lott, Lacey, Ia, farmer; burned
and scaldad.
&. H. Osborn. Chicago Junction, baggage
master on passenger; head and hands
Katherine Prigg, aged II, Baltimore, Nd. !;
scaded.
J. H. Selgel. Chicago Junction, engineer on
passenger; head cut, left arm broken, and
Scalded; serious.
Benjamin C. Shook, Chicago Junction.
mail clerk on passenger: head cut, scalded,
and internal injuries; will die.
Mrs George Stair, Detroit three ribs
fractured.
Thomas Van Nata, Newark, O., express
messenger on passenger.
Owen w GODS. neWSbOy; Scalded
March Snow Storm the Cause.
In order to release the body of Fire
man HOFFMAN of the passenger train
from under his engine it was necessary
to cut off his legs with an axe. He
had been killed instantly. A snowstorm
caused the wreck near a waterbank sta
ton called GodSend. \ fast eaStDOund
freight train stopped there to take water.
y snowstorm obscured Engineer Albert
Gauste's view of the second section that
followed closely behind.
Mrs. George Stair of Detroit broke Il
window with her pocketbook and, though
three Of her ribs We're fractured, she
crawled out to safety. =. II. Brooks. an
engineer of Chicago Junction, and chum
of Engineer Seigel alone escaped unln-
jured from the smoker. He tried TO get
out of a window. but. finding the tirebOX
end of the car. He pulled an overcoat
over his head and, plunging through the
steam, escaped.
Wreck Victims on Great Western.
DUBUQUE. Ia. March ia Great
Western passenger train was wrecked
shortly before midnight by broken rail
at North Hanover. Ill. The train was
going about thirty-tive miles an hour. The
engine. baggage, and club cars and four
sleeDers were hurled over an embank-
ment. Two chair cars held the track.
The seriously injured are:
Mrs. Charles Edward, st. Paul; head
bruised and cut.
Mrs Eileene Fennell, Minneapolis; head
hurt
O. Hos1ner. Wells-F Fargo express messen-
ger Minneapolis: fractured knee
l. c. Hufford, Minneapolis; badly cut
about hands and face
T. O. McGrain. fireman. Minneapolis leg
broken twice.
Miss Anna Smith, Minneapolis; injury TO
head.
Burlington Trains Collide.
LINCOLN. Neb., March 12.-Burling-
ton passenger trains Nos. l and IA col
lided headon two miles west of Akron
Colo, on q curve in a deep cut. A fire
man on one of the trims was fatally
scalded. Several passengers were re-
ported injured but this is denied. One
story IS that the operator at Brush failed
to deliver an order.
\ fierce snowstorm today interferes
with the work of the wrecking crew and
passage is almost impossible. Mean
while the main line tracks of the Bur
Iington are blocked, with little prospect
for an early clearance. Trains have
been run out from Denver and McCool
10 care for the passengers, none of whom
was injured.
Another Grade Crossing Wreck.
CHICAGO. ILL.,, March 12.-Three
passengers on a Twenty-sixth street cleo
trio car escaped with minor injuries when
the car was struck by a switch engine
on the Belt railway in Cicero last even
ing and thrown entirely across the road.
The street car was demolished. The in
;ured
Theodore Ahledorf, motorman of the car;
leg broken.
Alice Keevan, u years old, 269 Sangamon
street.
Thelma Keevan, IA years old, her sister.
John Patrick, SO Fisk street; cut by fall
ing glass
The car had stopped on the west side
of the track and the conductor. Fred
O'Neil, was Tagging" it to cross the
track when the accident occurred. No
train was TO be seen. and the conductor
was boarding the car again when it was
struck in the middle by switch engine
at full speed.
Another B. & O. Wreck
PITTSBURG. Pa, March 1.-THE
engine hauling through express train No.
8 on the Baltimore & Ohio. was de-
rallied near Smithton. Pa, and over
turned. Engineer Frank Cunningham
and Fireman Harry Kirkland were Sc
riously, but not fatally injured. The
Pullman sleepers held to the rails and
the passengers escaped with severe
shaking UP.