The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-24
MAKING UP TIME.
Christmas Excursion Train
Wrecked in North Dakota.
Ten Persons Killed and Six
Others Fatally Injured.

st. Paul. Dec. 24.=Ten people are
4 dead, six others are fatally injured and
at least twenty-five others were badly
hurt in the wreck of an eastbound
train on the Minneapolis, St. Paul &
Sault Ste. Marie railroad at Enderlin,
n. D.. which occurred at an early hour
Sunday morning.
The train wrecked was the accom-
modation train which runs from
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. to St Paul.
1t is due at Enderlin at 11:45 p. m,
but was about two hours late. The
engineer was running at high speed in
an endeavor to make up the lost time.
AS he swung around a curve just be-
fore entering the yards a t Enderlin a
switch engine was shifting a string of
box cars on to a siding. The cars did
not clear the main track and the pas
senger engine collided head-on with
the switch engine. Both engines were
wrecked and the passenger cars were
thrown down small embankment at
the side of the track. Several of the
day coaches were turned bottom up
and the passengers pinned beneath the
wreckage. which took rlre from the
stoves used to heat the cars.
The passenger train was heavily
loaded with people going to their
homes for the holidays. Most OF the
casualties occurred in the smoking
car and first day coach, both of which
were badly splintered.
Enderlin is the division headquar-
ters of the railroad, and rescue party
was soon at hand endeavoring to re-
lease the imprisoned passengers from
their perilous positions. The groans
of the dying, mingled with cries OF
anguish of the passengers less severe
ly hurt, but who were in imminent
danger from the flames, which were
fast spreading through the cars Axes
were welded by willing hands, and the
roofs of the overturned cars were
broken open and the dead and injur- :
ed taken out as quickly as possible. It
was a race between the rescuers and /
the flames. but by herculean efforts
all of the injured were removed before T
the flames reached them.
Ten dead bodies were taken out and
laid beside the track. while the injured
were conveyed to the hospital and the
hotels.
Henry J. volkering. of Anamoose,
who was on his way to visit his par
ents at Osceola. Wis. is among the
dead
OF the injured six are so badly hurt /
that the physicians in attendance say /
that their recovery is impossible.
List Of Dend.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Dec. 24.-In the /
list of passengers on the 500 train |
wrecked at Enderlin. n. D.. who were
subjects of medical attendance. ap-
pears the name OF AldQSe hdDSldNQ OIL
DEBORAH. Ia. All the other injured,
%, are residents of Min
nesota. North Dakota and Canada.
Ten of these only were slightly hurt.
The revised list Of the dead is as
follows:
CHARLES RACKUS, Bergoin, n. d.
H. j. VOLKERING. Anamoose.
n. D.
TONY GLEEN or GLENN. Nelva.
\. D.
D. J. BEREsFORD. Medicine Hat,
Canada.
HERMAN RosENBAUM. velva.
y. D
". r. DANIELsON. Sheldon, N. d.
NEILs F. G. HANSON, Kenmare.
OLE THOMPSON. Starbuck.
Brother Of Admiral BeresfOrd Killed.
El Paso. Tex, Dec. 24.-"D. J.
Beresford of Medicine Hat. Canada -
dead in the Enderlin. Min
nesOta, wreck. Is DR.. laval Beresford.
a younger brother of Admiral Lord
Reresford of the British navy. who
has ranch in the Sierra Madre
mountains of Mexico south of FL Paso
and another at Medicine Hat Canada.