The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1906-09-28
KILLED IN A
RAILWAY Wreck
A PASSENGER TRAIN ON M. & ST.
L. ROAD COLLIDES WITH
SWITCH ENGINE.
Five Men Killed Outright and Three
Others are Fatally Injured. More
than Score are More or Less
Bruised.

New Prague, Mimi, Sept. 25.-The
minneapolis & St. Louis Passenger
Trim No 2, which left Minneapolis at
9:35 Monday morning ran into a switch
engine at New Prague shortly before
noon and as result five persons are
dead and twenty-five others seriously
injured.
The dead are:
EIford ID. De Marais, Minneapolis,
travelling salesman for Wyman, Part
ridge 6 Co.
Frank Brown, st. Paul, travelling
salesman for Foot-Schultz Shoe COM
panv.
Frank Wrabeck, New Prague.
George E. Klinkerfues, St Paul trav-
cling agent Gotzian Shoe company.
Arthur Kilmer, Albert Lea, fire.
man.
Frank Wrabeck, a small boy who
was riding on the switch engine was
killed. Tbe other fatalities occurred
in the smoker.
Ihe dead and injured were cared for
by the people of New Prague, who re-
sponded at once to the cries of assist
ance that could be heard all over town.
Most of the dead and injured are st.
Paul and Minneapolis people, there be
ing large number of Twin City trav-'
cling men among the passengers who
were on their way to points in South
ern Minnesota and Iowa.
The wreck occurred at 11:2o a. m.
Ihe passenger train was fifteen min
utes late and was running at a high
rate OF speed. Rounding a curve near
the center of the town, Engineer w.
T. Prescott saw the switch engine on
the main track just ahead of him.
Seeing that collision was unavoid-
able, he and Fireman Elmer Adams
jumped from the cab and escaped SER
ious injury.
The engines came together with a
crash that was heard throughout the
town. Both engines and the mail
coach and smoker of the passenger
train were demolished. The mail and
baggage coaches, which were imme-
diately behind the engine, were pushed
into the smoker, telescoping with it
$1,000 ". ooi'''so VIC E'dSSShScES Ill CHt
smoker against the rear end of the
car. 1t was in the smoker that four
men met death. c. j. Tierney of St.
Paul, the conductor in charge of the
train, was painfully bruised and III. d.
Mathews, express messenger, had his
face cut and leg injured. The engineer
and fireman escaped injury, but En-
C~iupar Thomas McDopa1,i cf +ba S,,;t nh
engine was seriously iuj ired.
The passenger train was made up of
seven coaches. The mail and baggage
coaches followed the engine and then
came the smoker and the other four
coaches. The smoker was completely
demolished and the fifty or more pass
engers were crushed againt the rear
end of the coach by the rear end of the
baggage coach which crushed into it.
Uninjured passengers and the people
of New Prague lost no time in begin
ming the work of rescuing and caring
for the injured. Many passengers
were pinioned under the cars and
debris of the wreck for ten or fifteen
minutes before the wreckage could be
removed The city hall and Broz hotel
were converted into hospitals, where
the injured were taken on cots by
members Of the fire department. The
fire department took every precaution
against fire breaking out in the wreck,
and there was no damage done by fire.
where Coroner A. Hirscher, of Shake,
pee viewed the remains. An inquest
will be held Thursday.
News Of the wreck was telegraphed
to headquarters at Minneapolis and a
relief train and wreckIng outfit were
Immediately sent to the scene of the
disaster.
The smoker received the most dam
age and apparently the passengers in
that coach were the only ones serious
lv injured. The three last coaches did
not leave the track and the passengers
received only severe shocks.
Mr.. De Marais, who was travelling
salesman for Wyman, Partridge & Co.,
was sixty-fve years old and was vet
eran of the Civil war; lie leaves
wife and five children, L. S. DeMarais
of Duluth, L. G. De Marais of ST Paul,
Z. A. De Marais of Minneapolis, Mrs
+. w. Moore of Granville, Iowa, and
Lucille De Marais of Minneapolis He
has worked for Wyman, Partridge &
Co. continually for eighteen years, his
regular run being from New Prague
to New Ulm.
The two Moolrichs and C. L. Peter
son who were among the injured were
able to return to Minneapolis last
evening on Il Minneapolis &c St. Louis
trair,