Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-03-16
WRECK IN SN0WSTORM.
TWO KILLED AND FOUR INJURED
AT GoDsEND, O.
Dozen Injured Near North Hanover Ull.)
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 n wreck
| OF two freight trains and fast passen-
ger train, No. Z, on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, which occurred at II 80
| . 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, Fostoria, circus performer;
head scalded and cut
Edward Lott Lacey, Ia farmer; burned
md scaldcd
Il. IL. Osborn, Chicago Junction, baggage
master on passenger; head and hands
Katherine Prigg, aged -, Baltimore Md;
aided.
:, H. Seigel Chicago Junction, engineer on
passenger; head cut, left arm broken, and
Benjamin c. Shook. Chicago Junction.
nall clerk on passenger; head cut scalded.
md internal injuries; will die.
Mrs. George Stair, Detroit; three ribs
Fractured
Thomas Van Nata. Newark, O., express
messenger on passenger.
owen woods, newSboy; Scaldcd.
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 ~ith an "xe. He
bad been killed instantly. A snowstorm
caused the wreck near a waterbank sta
ton called Godsend. A fast eastbound
freight train stopped there to take water.
snowstorm obscured Engineer Albert
6auste's view of the second section that
followed closely behind.
Mrs. George Stair of Detroit broke
window with her pocketbook and, though
three of her ribs were fractured, she
:rawlcd out to safety. Is. 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 firebox
of the engine underneath. crept to the
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
w eStern passenger train was wrecked
shortly before midnight by broken rail
going about thirty-fve miles an hour. The
engine baggage and club cars and four
sleeners were hurled over an embank-
mcnt. Two chair cars held the track.
The seriously injured are:
Mrs Charles Edward, st. Paul; head
bruised and cut.
Mrs Eileene Fenncll, Minneapolis; head
hurt.
o. Hosme:. Wells-Fargo express mcssen-
ger, Minneapolis; fractured knee.
!. &. Hufrord, Minneapolis badly cut
about hands and face.
I. o. McGrain, fireman. minneapolis; les
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
lidcl headon, two miles west Of Akron,
Colo on Il curve in Il deep cut. n ire
man on one of the t"1ins was fatally
scalded. Several passengers were re
ported injured, but this is denied One
story is that the operator at Brush tailed
to deliver an order.
A fierce snowstorm today interferes
with the work of the wrecking crew ana
passage is almost impossible Mean
while the main line tracks OF the Bur
lington are blocked. with little prospect
for an early clearance. Trans nave
been run out from Denver and Mctook
to care for the passengers, none or whom
was injured.
Another Grade Crossing Wreck.
CHICAGO. H.. March 12.-Three
passengers on Twenty sixth street cleo
trc car escaped with minor injuries when
the ear was struck by a switch engine
ing and thrown entirely across the road.
'Fhe street car was demolished. The i'll
jured
Theodore Ahcdorf motorman Of the car;
leg broken. >o
Alice Kcevan, l. years old, go Sangamon
street. . ,
Thelma Kecvan, II years old, her sister
John Patrick, 80 Fisk street; cut by fail
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 1t was
struck in the middle by Il switch engine
at full speed.
Another B. g. o. Wreck.
PITTSBURG, Pa, March 1.-The
engine hauling through express train No.
ON the Baltimore X Ohio, was de
rallied near Smithton. Pa, and over
turned. Engineer Frank Cunningham
and Fireman Harry Kirkland We're Sc
riously. but not fatally injured. The
Pullman sleepers held TO the rails and
the passengers escaped with severe
shaking up.