The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-09-27
-FOUR MEN KILLED;
FIFTEEN INJURED
PASSENGER TRAIN AND ENGINE
ON M. & ST. L. MEET.
Tear Their Skirts Into Strips For
Bandaees and succor Fellow Pas
seneers in Every Way
Possible.

minneapolis, Mimi, Sept. 25.--Four
are dead and fifteen or more are in
jured as a result of a rear-end collis-
ion of a passenger train and switch
engine in the Minneapolis & st. Louis
railroad yards at New Prague, MINI,
40 miles south of Minneapolis, at noon
Monday. The dead:
List of Dead and Injured.
d. d. Demarais, Minneapolis, travel
ing salesman for Wyman, Partridge &
Co.
F. E. Brown, St. Paul, salesman for
Foote & Schulze company.
George E. Klinkerfuss, st. Paul,
salesman, Gotham & Co.
Frank Wrabeck, New Prague.
The injured:
David Green, residence unknown, re.
ported dying.
A. E. Kilroy, Albert Lea, seriously
injured internally.
Thomas Mcdonald, Minneapolis, en-
gineer on switch engine, hurt inter
nally and cut on head.
Herman Boehmer, Schakopee, Mimi,
shoulder dlSlocated.
F. ]. Plumley, Minneapolis, bruises
and cuts.
s. H. Stewart, Minneapolis, shoulder
blade broken.
c. L, Klaine, Minneapolis, lineman
M. G st. L. road, badly hurt internally.
w. H. Smith, Minneapolis, travelling
engineer M. & st. L. road, dislocated
shoulder and other injuries.
John Kubu, New Prague, three ribs
broken.
G. l.. Peterson, Minneapolis, with
Pars Murton company, slightly in.
jured.
H. T. Matthews, baggageman, ST.
Paul, knee broken.
Officials Are Reticent.
Information concerning the accident
was meager at the general Offices of
the company in Minneapolis. L. F,
Day, vice president and general man
ager, said that all the information he
had obtained was to the effect that
four people, all of them passengers,
were killed.
According to Mr.. Day, the accident
was caused by switch engine in the
yards running onto the main track on
the time of the passenger train, which
was about Is minutes late. The
switch engine was light and the pas
senger train was running at rather
fast rate of speed.
Both engineers jumped when they
saw that the crash was inevitable
One engineer escaped and the other
broke his collarbone. All the express
and mail messengers escaped unhurt
Apparently the passengers in the
smoking car were the only ones hurt
Volunteers to the Rescue.
The train was in charge of Conduc
tor G. j. Tierney, of ST. Paul. The
crash was heard throughout the vii
lage and within few minutes the
work of rescuing the imprisoned pas
sengers and removing the dead had
been begun by scores of eager yolun
teers The city hall was turned into a
were taken out they were removed tC
it.
Precautions were promptly taken to
prevent the wreck from catching fire
So near as can be determined all Of
the dead or injured were riding in the
smoking car.
The express and baggage car tele
scoped into the smoker and practical
ly every person in the car received
some injury.
The last three cars of the train did
not leave the track, but all of the, pas
sengers in the train were bruised and
shocked by the crash.
Caught Under the Debris.
So complete was the destruction
, wrought up forward that many of the
unfortunates were penned beneath the
debris for an hour or more before they
| could be released.
None of the dead or injured were
scalded or burned, Their injuries con
sisted of broken bones and torn flesh
w. c. Westcott, engineer, and A
Adams, fireman, both of Minneapolis
were running the passenger engine.
Miss Myrtle Vinton, of Minneapolis
and Miss Goldie Gorrell, of Marshall
town, Ia, did heroic work in caring fol
the injured.
They were passengers on the train
but did not lose their nerve when the
crash came. Almost at once they be
gan their relief work. They tore theil
skirts into strips for use as bandages
and seemed to be everywhere that ait
was needed. Their effective efforts
met with highest praise on the part o.
others in the rescue work.
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