The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-11-09
OVER l2-FOOT BANK
Rock Island Passenger Train is
Wrecked Near Ellsworth
Saturday. s
IT, &h! 49, ~.s. 35t4s2
"r} n $1,000 t-3,.G. }4La2#
Ten, Badly lnjured---Score More
hurt...C Coaches Upset and
Roll Into Ditch. ....."

Roll Into Ditch. .
Luverne, Mimi, Nov. "a Rock
Island passenger train bound tc
Sioux Falls, S. D., from Chicago,
was derailed three miles west OF
Ellsworth at 1880 O'Clock this even.
ing, and was thrown down q j, II
foot embankment, injuring ten
passengers seriously and inflicting
slight injuries and bruises on twenty
more. The wreck was caused by a
spreading OF the rails from an un-
known cause.
The seriously injured:
Frank M. Brown, Montpelier,i VT,
cut about head and injured inter
nally. ~.'.'3.'s IN
Charles Shade, Rock Rapids, Iowa
back and side badly hurt, head cut
and several ribs broken.
Miss Sadie Kramer, Sioux Falls,
S. d., face badly cut, injured inter
nally. .~
Philip Marshall, Chicago. head
cut and back injured.
Arthur Page, Des ..Moines, Iowa
| travelling man. injured internally
and about the head.
John Whitney, Rock Rapids,
Iowa, badly cut about the head
Mrs. Savage, Rock Rapids, Iowa,
back. head and body hurt and,in-
jured internally. #
Two little boys. belonging to Mrs.
Savage; one three years old, hurt
seriously; the other seven, slightly
injured.
Mrs. W. q. Bowers, Rock Rapids,
Iowa, back hurt and head cut. il
Eight year old son of Mrs. Bowers,
fatally injured.
Six year old daughter of Mrs.
Bowers slightly injured.
The regular PASSENGER train had
been cut into at Ellsworth in orde
to run a special to Luverne and the
train that was wrecked was made
ouly..of one day coach and a baggage
Coach. There we're forty passengers
in the day coach. -. y. .
The train was running at high
speed after leaving Ellsworth.
Nearing the palce where the train
was wrecked, the engineer thought
that the track looked a little Pc
culiar, but decided that it was only
an optic illusion. When the train
came to where the rails spread tit
was going with undiminished speed.
+ Suddenly there was a creaking Of
bolts and the coaches gave lung,
jumped the track and bumped along
on the ties, breaking the windows
in the cars, loosening the seats and
creating panic among the passen-
gers Almonst instantly the coaches
gave q, second lunge and were pre-
cipitated twelve feet below into g
gravel pit.
The passenger coach turned over,
pinning several passengers to the
ground and hurting others with
great violence against the sides of
the coach. ~
Special trains we're run from Els
worth and Rock Rapids to the scene
of the wreck, and the injured were
hurried to hospitals and private
homes, where they received medical
attention. All of the Rock Rapids
pepole who were injured were taken
to their homes, while the others
were taken to Ellsworth. Marshall
Paige and Miss Kramer were taken
to Luverne. j..
While at least ten of the passen-
gers we're seriously injured, it is not
known whether their injuries will
prove fatal or not. However, it is
stated that the eight year old SON of
Mrs. W. H. Bowers of Rock Rapids
was so badly injured internally
that he cannot recover. iii 4
Some of the passengers escaped
with apparently no injuries. ,~-5
Warning to QuarreIsome Husbands.
A Punxsutawney man had row