Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-01-20
A NORTHERN PACIFIC WRECK.
Passenger Train Of Twelve Cars Is pitched
While Rounding Curve at Speed Of
Almost . Mile Minute.
Hundred Passengers injured, Six Of Whom
May Not euvvive--A Prominent Linton
Lady Hurt, but will Recover.

The particulars of disastrous
railroad wreck west Of Mandan. in
Morton county, are given in the fol-
lowing taken from yesterday MORN
ings Bismarck Tribune. 1t will be
seen that Mrs. c. S. Lane. wife OF
c. S. Lane, an attorney Of Linton.
was among the injured. Persons
who came from Bismarck on last
evening 5 N. p. train say that the
lady is doing nicely at hospital in
Bismarck, and that she will un-
doubtedly recover.
The tram was densely packed with
passengers. 1t Is reported that a
gentleman who occupied part of a
seat with Mrs. Lane was fatally in
Jured
The passengers by last even
ing's train say that passengers on
the Inflated train told them in Bis
marck that the two big engines,
which were pulling train of twelve
cars, were going sixty miles an
hour on down grade around a curve,
and that the outward momentum
threw the train from the track as
they turned on the curve. The cars
broke loose from the engines and not
coupling was broken or pulled out
between any of the coaches.
There was only slight embank-
mcnt at the point where the wreck
occurred and the coaches were cush-
toned in their fall upon their sides
by about three feet of snow, some
thing like the conditions that pre-
vailed in the N. p. wreck near Nc
Kenzle last winter. when an entire
train of coaches was dumped into a
snow drift while running at rapid
speed, and not passenger was seri-
ously injured.
Following is the Tribune account
Of the wreck:
Running at high rate Of speed in
an effort to make up lost time.
Northern Pacific west-bound pass
enger train No. Z left the track two
and a half miles west of New Salem,
last evening about 5 o'clock. A
broken rail was the cause of the &C.
cident.
The two engines pulling the train
turned turtle and every car in the
train was thrown in the ditch and
overturned.
The first report was that twelve
had been killed, but this latter re-
port proved to be erroneous.
The train was a heavy one, con-
tanning twelve cars. and was run
ming at a rate Of fifty miles an hour
when the wreck came.
A special train was made up at
Mandan and sent to the scene Of
the wreck The special carried all
the physicians and nurses inMandan,
and the injured were taken to that
city, whore they were taken care Of
in private homes.
The train arrived in Mandan at
lO:l5 r. M, when 1t was found that
one hundred people had been injured,
slX of them fatally. and others with
broken bones. bruised heads and
other injuries.
Following is list Of those who
were more seriously injured:
w. w. I.ohes, commercial traveller
for the Armour Packing Company.
who received internal injuries, and
who has been unconscious since be-
ing taken from the wreck. and is ex-
pected to die at any time. He was
brought to the Bismarck hospital.
where he is being taken care of.
Mrs. j b. Dillinger. Dickinson,
leg broken and internal injuries.
Condition very serious.
Carl Nelson, Great Falls, Monta-
ma. leg sprained and internal injur-
les.
Casper schafer, Glen UlIin, head
wounds aud back injured.
w. Olson. Laurel, Montana, scalp
wounds.
Mrs. Olson. serious wounds about
head
Mrs. Anna Lane, Linton, scalp
wounds. Is unconscious.
VIM. Higbee, st. Paul. scalp
wounds.
The Prosser 4 Reed show com.
pany, from Minneapolis to Butte.
numbering twenty persons, all re.
ceived minor wounds.
j. b. Connels. Valparaiso, India
ma. scalp wounds and bon.
broken.