Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-06-28
I'LL WAUKEE PEOPLE
IN TRAIN SMASH,
AND FREIGHT COLLIDE
NEAR LOMIRA ON THE WIS
CONSIN CENTRAL.
FOURTEEN SLIGHTLYHURT
No One Suffers Serious Injury, But Had
Speed Been High, Disaster
Might Have Occurred.

| LOMIRA, Wis, June 25.-[Spccial.l
Fourteen persons were injured, none
seriously, in head-on collision here be-
| tween a passenger and freight train on
the Wisconsin Central road this morn
ing.
The injured:
| Rev. Solomon Lucie, Milwaukee, hand
| sprained and bruised about the body.
Frank Robinson, 67S Hackett avenue,
| Milwaukee, leg sprained and body bruised.
head and shoulders.
j. NJ. Gardner, 134 Grand avenue Mil
waukee, cut about head and face.
H. Wetzler, 263 TWenty-sixth street, Mil
Waukee, injured about the head and leg
wrenched
Arthur MCGOWAN, brakeman on passenger
train, Milwaukee; hand sprained and leg
and shoulder wrenched.
| Gordon Small, Chicago news agent on
passenger; left leg broken.
| .. Smith, Ashland, express messenger on
passenger; left leg broken and bruised
about head and face.
Ray Hammond, Chicago, brakeman Oh
| freight train, two ribs broken and cut
about face and head.
injured -'''
Mrs, H. B; Esselman, Athens, Wis, right
Harold Hunt, Detroit, Mich, left arm
| sprained.
Ira Yantis, conductor on passenger, Fond
| du Lac: cuts about head and face and
| shoulder wrenched
Henry McCallum, engineer passenger,
| Fond du Lac; foot sprained.
Orders Were Misunderstood.
| A misunderstanding of orders is saiG
to have been the cause of the smashup
| and were it not for the fact that the
| train was not under full speed. a num-
hA. of 1i1rl,f lIol
The engine crew of the freight jumped
and escaped uninjured, but the men in
the cab of the passengers engine were
caught in the crash and both hurt.
| Freight Was on Main Line.
The passenger train was north bound
and was due to pass the freight at 10
mira. A misunderstanding, it is said
caused the freight to be put on the main
| line instead of on the sidetrack Expect
| ing a clear track, the passenger train
| was coming out Of town and increasing
speed each moment when the freight
pulled out on the main line coming to-
ward the passenger; Engineer Henry
| McCallum of the latter reversed his
engine and applied the brakes, but the
speed of the train was hardly checked
| before the two met head-on The two
men in the cab of the freight engine
jumped clear of the locomotive in time
to escape being caught, first applying
| the brakes.
Strong Car Saves Lives.
That the coaches of the. passenger
| train did not telescope is due to
the heavily built smoking car be-
| tween the coaches and the Locomotives
The impact of the crash hurled every one
| out of their seats and slammed them
| against other seats and into corners and
against windows, the broken glass giving
| bad wounds. One woman was among
the injured. Practically all who received
| hurts were in the smoking car. There
| were between Seventy-hve and 100 pas
| Sengers on the train.
Traffic was held four hours by the
smash-up. A wrecking crew and appa-
ratus was summoned from North Fond
du Lac, the division point which is not
far away, and the work of clearing the
tracks begun. Both locomotives were
badly wrecked but were replaced on the
rails and dragged to Fond du Lac. A
number of box cars We're derailed, as
| was one or two of the forward cars of
tho passenger train. The tracks were
cleared shortly before 1 o'clock.
Two Go to Hospital
Of the injured, Ray Hammond of Chi
cagO, the brakeman of the freight train,
was taken to st. Agnes hospital at Fond
du Lac as was Express Messenger
SullIn. i lie OlueES went W Il Olu uu IdC
but hospital attention was not necessary.
Official Report of Wreck
MILWAUKEE, Wis. June %
| From the official reports of the acct
dent received shortly after noon at the
office of Gen. Supt. E. +. Potter, it Is
| learned that the accident was caused
by the collision of passenger train No.
IL, which left Milwaukee at 7:30 O'Clock,
arriving at Lomira at sos o'clock, with
the engine of a freight which was side
tracked there The freight was doing
some switching and it seems kept its
work up too closely en- the time of the
passenger train, which is a through train
from Milwaukee to Ashland. The two
| engines went together with a crash, both
| being more or less damaged by the inn
pact. The reports to the general super
intendent state that none of the injured
were considered seriously hurt, and all,
it was said, would speedily recover,
save Smith, who will be laid up for some
| time
Consultation of the city directory
| showed that there was no such name as
| Rev. Solomon Lucie, but there are two
Lutheran conferences in this city this
| week Frank w. Robinson, agent of the
North and South Dispatch. whose home
is at CTS HackeH avenue, left home this
morning for some part of the state. One
John Cleveland is mentioned, a painter
at lilo Harrison avenue j. NJ Gard
ner's address was given as 1874 Grand
avenue, which is a penny arcade. The
directory does not give H. Weltzer at
263 Twenty-sixth street.
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