Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1909-09-30
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mons County, Nests Oeath 10
Q Railway Accident.
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Mostly Stockmes.
This community was startled Tues
day afternoon by the reception Of a
dispatch from Walter Bros, Chicago
livestock dealers, announcing that
John Postle, well-known stockman
and farmer of the Winona neighbor-
hood, this county, had been killed in
a railroad wreck in Chicago. All Of
the particulars known here of the
horrible accident, up to the writing
of these lines, are found in a dis
patch to the Bismarck Tribune Of
Tuesday morning.
Last Saturday Mr.. Postle and Mr..
J. R. Davis, the latter also Of this
county. shipped stock from this town
by Milwaukee railway train. both
accompanying the shipment. As Mr..
Davis is not mentioned in the Wal
ter Bros. dispatch, it is probable
that he stopped off somewhere and
was not on the wrecked train. Fol-
lowing is the Tribune dispatch:
Chicago, ILL.,, Sept. q. Ten men
were killed and six probably fatally
injured, early this morning. when .
train south-bound for Cincinnati on
the Pennsylvania Railway crashed
into caboose of a Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul Road cattle-train
bound for the stock yards.
Sixteen men were in the caboose
of the stock train when the passen-
ger train crashed into it in the rail-
road yards, q few blocks from the
down town station. The engine
plowed through the caboose, literal
~ tearing it to shreds and setting
fire to the debris. Six bodies were
recovered within few minutes af-
ter the crash, while the flames were
eating up the splintered bits Of the
demolished car.
Sixteen of the dead and injured
were dragged from the burning ru-
ms. The passenger train. known as
the Cincinnati Special. on the Pam
handle Route, left the union depot
soon after midnight. No signals
had been given, so far as could be
learned, that any other train was on
the track to be taken by the passen-
ger. The train increased its speed,
ard when at Twelfth street the en-
gineer saw the rear lights Of the
freight ahead; but it was too late
to avoid collision. He used the
air-brakes and reversed his engine,
but crashed into the caboose, which
was filled with sleeping stockmen,
with tremendous momentum.
The caboose was cut to pieces,
and four cars in front of it were
telescoped. When the crash occurred
the screams of the injured men
and the cries of the wounded and
dying cattle in the telescoped stock
cars attracted crowd of rescuers
to the scene, and Immediately many
men were snatched from the burn
ing ruins. The fire department ex-
tinguished the flames. The bodies
of six dead were found by that
time.
Tuesday evenings Twin City pa
pers give list of the people killed
and wounded, and also a few addi-
tional details, as follows:
Chicago, Sept. 28.-Six men were
killed and dozen seriously injured
early to-day by an outbound Pan
handle passenger train crashing into
the rear end of a Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul stock train at 18th
and Rockwell streets. The victims
were stockmen and members of the
stock-train crew. None of the pas
sengers on the Panhandle train was
injured.
When the accident occurred, q
few minutes after midnight, most
of the victims in the cabOOse Of the
stock train were asleep.
Four cars were telescoped and
the wreckage set on fire.
Many of the injured were extri-
Gated with difficulty from the burn
ing wreckage by firemen and others
who hurried to the scene of the
wreck.
The identified dead are:
H. Potten, Dion Lake. N. d.
Don Schlanger. Fayette, N. d.
WI. Stevenson, Livingston, Mont.
Jacob Metz, Kuhn. N. d
Fred Koch. Dickinson, N. d.
John Postle, Winona. N. D.
The following injured are at the
Monroe Street Hospital:
w. w. Mcdonald, Elgin, iii. A
switchman. Commissions about the
face and body.
F. G. Buckley. Fallon. Mont.