Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-24
several Are in Critical Condition and More
Deaths Are Expected.
EARLY ALL DEATHS IN SMOKING CAR
Impact Of Collision Drives Baggage Car
Through Il.
DEBRIS TAKES FIRE FROM STOVES
Rescue Party Has Hard Fight to
Keep Number Of the Injured
from Burning TO a
Death. ..# ..


ST PAUL, Dec. 23.-A special to the
Pioneer Press from Enderlin, N D. says:
Loaded to its fun capacity with people
going to their homes in the east to spend
the Christmas holidays the southbound
train on the Minneapolis st. Paul & Sault
Ste. Marie crashed into a switch engine
in the west end OF the railroad yards at
this place at 21O this morning Eight men
were killed outright and one has died OF
injuries. Thirty-seven were seriously in
jured and It is likely that the death list
will be added to- All OF the fatalities oc-
CURED I'm the smoking car. which was
completely telescoped by the baggage car.
and only two Of the occupants OF this car
escaped injury. The car was crowded and
the whistle had just sounded for Ender-
lin, almost everyone was on his feet when
the crash came and the dead and wounded
were piled into a great heap with the
wreckage.
A rescue party soon was formed and the
work of taking out the dead and injured
was begun at once and continued through
out the night.
The little hospital was soon crowded with
those hurt and the hotels were made into
emergency hospitals, where the wounded
were cared for. There were but four ply
sicians in Enderln, and special train.
with physicians and nurses, was hastily
made up at Valley City and rushed to
the scene of the wreck
The wreckage took fire from the over
turned stoves and there was a race be-
tween the passengers and the flames. BY
almost superhuman means the uninjured
were enabled to fight of the flames until
the injured were removed, when the cars
were allowed to burn.
Only few passengers in the day coaches
were wounded, and in the sleepers none of
which left the track, there were no casu-
alties.
List of victims.
The dead:
CHARLES BACKUs, Bergen, N. D.
N j. VOLKERING, AnamOose, n. ID.
JOHN SATTERBURG, AnamoOse, n. d.
TONY GLEEN, Velva, n. D.
d. j. BERESFORD, Medicine Hat AL
II. ROsENBAUM, Velva N d.
w. J. DAEtELpSoN, sheldon y. ID.
A. o. ANDERSON, Starbuck, MINI.
NELS HANSEN, enmare, N. d.
It has so far been impossible to secure
list of those injured in the wreck. Claim
agents and other officials of the railroad
have taken charge of the injured and alb
solutely refuse either to give out list
! of those hurt or to permit newspaper
| correspondents to secure the names in
other ways. The newspaper men on the
| ground have entered a strong protest
against this action on the part of the rail-
road officials, but so far It has been with
out avail.
Train Running NJ High Speed.
/ The train which was wrecked was the
| southbound accommodation, running be-
tween Moose JaN, Canada, and st. Paul,
MINI. 1t is due here at II As p. m, but
last night was nearly three hours late
! The engineer was running his engine at
a high rate of speed in an endeavor to
make up the lost time, A switch engine
was shifting a cut of box cars in the
western end OF the yards and had just
pushed them on the siding as the accom-
modation train suddenly swung in sight
around the curve. The siding was not long
enough to allow the box cars and engines
to clear the main track and a head-on col
lision ensued between the switch engine
! and passenger train. Both locomotives
, we're practically demolished and the bag
/ gage car carried through the smoking car.
completely telescoping il. one of the day
coaches also was derailed, but only a few
passengers in this coach were injured. The
other day coaches and the sleeping cars
did not leave the track.
1t is impossible to learn who was at fault
in the accident. 1t is said that the switch
engine had been given a portion Of the
running time Of the passenger in which
to shift cars in the yards, and II is sup
posed that the passenger train had made
more Of its lost time than had been an
ticpated by the crew Of the switch en-
gine.
The coroner this afternoon lmpanelled a
jury and began at once an investigation
into the cause Of the wreck
The engineer and fremen on both the
switch and passenger engines yhen they
saw that a collision was inevitable leaped
| and saved their lives