The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-12-26
WRECK ON 500 ROAD.
NINE PERSONS KILLED AND A
LARGE NUMBER INJURED AT
ENDERLIN, N. D.
TRAIN CRASHES INTO SWITCH EH6lnE
SMOKER is TELEscoPED AND
ONLY TWO OCCUPANTS Es-
CAPE UNFRAMED.

Enderlin, N. D., Dec. 25.-A 500
passenger train bound for st. Paul
from Moose Jaw, Alberta, crashed into
q switch engine standing on the main
track in the yards here.
Both engines were demolished, the
smoker was telescoped by the bag
gage car and one first class coach di-
sfectly In the rear of the smoker was
badly wrecked.
Eight passengers were killed out
right and thirty-seven injured; all
were occupants of the two forward
coaches. One died shortly after being
taken to the local hospital, making a
total death list of nine.
The List Of Dead.
CHARLES BACKUs, Bergen, N. D.
H. j. VOLKERING, Anamoose, N. D.
JOHN SATTERBURG, Anamoose,
N. d.
TONY eileen, Velva, N. D.
D. ]. BERESFORD, Medicine Hat,
Can.
HERMAN RosENBAUM, velva,
N. D.
W. R. DANIELsoN, Sheldon, N. D.
NEILS F. C. HANSON, Kenmare,
N. D.
OLE THOMPSON, starbuck, MINI.
Seriously Injured.
William Sutton, Foley, MINI.
j. T. Miller, Minot, N. D.
Ed Carlson, Parkers Prairie, MINI.
Heinrich Swanson, Velva, N. D.
G. M. Brockett, Minneapolis.
Magne Langland, DEBORAH, Ia.
Charles McDiarmid, Kenmare, N. D.
Henry Anderson, Bergen, N. D.
Jason Ralston, Balfour, N. D:
Minot j. Sweet, Alexandria, MINI.
L. NJ. Larson, Starbuck, MINI.
II. II. Cole, ST. Paul.
Engineer Frank Barnes, Enderlin,
N. D.
Harry Dizard, brakeman, Enderlin,
NJ D.
Slightly Injured.
Tony Plackteller, Minneapolis.
Joseph Labo, Buffalo, Mimi.
H. H. Backer, Donnybrook, N: D.
Albert Fairbanks, Darlington, N. D.
j. j. ROlstand, Enderlin, N. D.
Andrew Carlson, Annandale,, MINI.
r. C. Ryan, Graceville, MINI.
Walter Jensen, Velva, N. D.
Reuben Nelson, Velva, N. D.
Conrad Nelson, Velva, N. d.
Fog EnveIoped the Prairie.
The passenger was due here at
11:45 p. M, but was nearly three
hours late and was running about
twenty-five miles an hour when the
collision occurred. A light fog envel-
oped the prairie and in spite of the
fact that the country is perfectly level
and the track straight 1t was impos-
sible for either of the engineers to
see the danger until too late to pre-
vent the disaster.
Only two out of over thirty passen-
gers in the smoking car escaped with
out injury. The engineer of the pas
senger train had just pulled the
whistle for the Enderlin station and
many passengers were in the aisles
preparing y alight when the crash
came without a moments warning.
They were hurled forward and piled
in mass of dead and injured, the
baggage car telescoping and crushing
the life out of the helpless inmates of
the smoker
Local Hospital overtaxed.
The four local physicians respond
ed Immediately to the summons for
assistance and the work of alternating
the suffering of those injured and car
ing for the mangled bodies of the dead
proceeded with the doctors directly in
charge.
The injured were hurried to the
local hospital, the scant facilities of
which were soon overtaxed. Every
cot and bed was brought into service
and those who could not be cared for s
there were hurried to the Hotel Hill
ton, which was converted into an
emergency hospital.
Physicians from Valley City, Shell
don and other nearby towns we're Z
summoned until twelve were at work,
assisted by as many trained nurses.
The victims of the disaster declare
that the wreck was due to the grossest
carelessness on the part of the freight
crew.
Brother Of Lord Beresford.
FL Paso, Tex, Dec 25.-D. ]. Beres.
ford of Medicine Hat, Can, reported
dead in the Enderlin IN. d. wreck,
is Delaval Beresford, younger brother
OF Admiral Lord Beresford of the Brit
ish navy. who has ranch in the Sierra
Madre mountains of Mexico, south Of
III Poon mn. mot hnr- OF Mndioin.o .IIat