Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-08-28
TRAIN WRECK
FIVE COACHES OF NO. 2 WENT
INTO DITCH AT HEREA NON
DAY MORNING. n.
YOUNG RoosEvELT ABOARD
NINE SERIOUSLY HURTING
FATALITIES.

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No. 2 on the Northern Pacific went
into the ditch at Berea. II was the
east bound North Coast Limited and
heavily loaded. It Is not known just
how the accident happened, but either
a rail gave way or else the switch
opened after the engine had passed
over Five coaches went into the
ditch and were more or less wrecked.
Word was at once sent to Valley City
for aid, and a special loaded with
every doctor in town was rushed to
the scene Of the wreck. They were
not little astonished on arriving
there to find that nobody had been
more seriously hurt than a few
bruises. The debris was cleared
away as quickly as possible, the track
relaid and the portion Of the train yet
on the track, resumed its eastward
journey. Traffic was delayed but a
few hours .s ~ 4
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The fact that Kermit Roosevelt, the
son of President Roosevelt was on
| the train, added interest to the wreck.
Young Roosevelt was enroute to Oys-
ter Bay from Medora, where he ar
| rived from sAberdeen, South Dakota,
on horseback a few days since. After
visiting a short time with the old
friends Of his father at the Roosevelt
ranch on the Little Missouri, he was
going home He occupied an apart
ment in one of the rear coaches and
was not injured and had suffered no
further Inconvenience than being
slightly shaken up. !. ! ..#$..s:E q:
The i've rear coaches, all Pullman
sleepers, except the observation car,
toppled over, standing on one corner,
in the ditch. OF the four Pullmans,
not a thing was broken, the. window
glass remaining whole in all four cars.
The passengers suffered no great in.
convenience. The experience of one
substantial New Yorker, who was en-,
route from Yellowstone Park, was
probably the experience Of all.
He said he was awakened by the
jerk of the sudden stop. The first
sensation he experienced was that of
| the beginning of a fall, Of say 1000
feet. The car was evidently going
down and over. He felt satisfied that
it was from the heighth of some
trestle or into the depths of a canyon.
After a seemingly long time the car
stopped descending and tipping. He
then thought It had probably caught
on the trestle and was hanging. over
the abyss. Helaid still and shivered
with horror. After few minutes he
opened his eyes and Ventured to look
out of the window. His relief can be
more easily imagined than described
when he perceived that the green
grass Of North Dakota's endless
prairies was but two feet from his
face. He opened the window and
crawled out and presently fshed his
clothes out and dressed
1t was broad daylight when the
wreck occurred and the passengers
craWled out of the windows one by
one and, after discovering that every
thing was all right, hunted up their
clothing, dressed and sat around with
blankets about them as the morning
was chilly. They were good
lnatured happy lot Of people. They
had occasion to he, as II was little less
than a miracle that a number Of them
were NOT killed. sssss5
at the depot at noon, also brought in