The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-09-28
H|TSHAYRACK
THIRTEEN KILLED
VICTIMS sTREWN ALONG TRACKS
BY c. & N. w. PASSENGER
At NEENAH, WIS.
SEQUEL TO A WEDDING PARTY
Collision Comes in the Fog Of Early
Morning.-Of Eight Others
Hurt, Three Are Fatally
Injured.

Neenah, Sept. 26.-Whirling along
at the rate of a mile a minute, a
Chicago & Northwestern passenger
train, half an hour late, crashed into
a hayrack loaded with thirty-one
young people here, killing twelve of
them outright and injuring eight 9TH
ers, one of whom died shortly after
and three of them so badly that they
are believed to be fatally hurt.
A big billboard along the railway
tracks obscured the view from the
locomotive as we'll as from the wagon.
Dust and fog did the rest. Nine of
the thirty-one people on the hayrack
escaped without a scratch, and so did
both horses. Nobody on the train sui,
fered except from the jar.
Bodies strewn Along Tracks.
Armless, legless and headless bodies
covered the right of way as the train
Of nine coaches was brought to a stop
800 feet from the scene of the acct
dent. Several of the bodies were NUT
Hated so badly that Identification was
possible only by fragments of clothing.
Six bodies were discovered on the en-
CINE pilot where they law until re-
moved by the train crew and passen-
gers.
Two others of the persons killed
were hurled through a fagman's
shanty with such force as to overturn
the little structure. One of these was
Miss Mabel Finn, who was projected
through one of the side walls of the
house and was still alive when re-
moved. She died a few hours later.
Another of the victims killed was
thrown high over a barn so feet from
the right of way.
The party was returning from the
farm of Peter Hanson, where the
young people had gone to attend the
celebration of a wedding anniversary,
when the accident occurred. All but
two, who were from Chicago, were
residents of Mennasha, Wis.
Babe Mas Hurled SO Feet, Unhurt.
Among the occupants of the hay.
rack who escaped were Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Brinzinski and child of two
years. They were seated in the front
of the rack, the mother holding the
child in her lap. About half way
back in the wagon sat Mary Swartz.
bauer. The latter was hurled about
so feet and rendered unconscious.
When found by rescuers the Brin.
zinski child was in her arms, having
escaped unscratched. The parents OF
the child were injured only slightly
Peter Hanson, driver and owner OF
the horses attached to the Inflated
rig, managed to hang to the reins and
was the only person on the rack who
was not temporarily stunned by the
collision. He declares he looked in
both directions along the track, Blu,
did not observe the onrushing trair
until his team had reached the track
He whipped up the horses, but man
aged to get the wagon only half way
across.
The train was nearly half an hou1
behind schedule. The fact that the
engine stopped on the second corne1
from the intersection where the col
lision occurred, a distance of NOR
than 500 feet, is evidence that the
speed was great. It is said, however
that the rails were slippery from thu
rain and made the stopping of tn,
train difficult.
On the outgoing trip the hayracl
contained 40 persons, but the rig wa,
u~ncomfortably crowded and on the re
turn trip an additional wagon a oh
tanned. Eight of the party occupied
the second vehicle, which followed
about a mile behind.
A farmer, his wife and two children
recently were killed in a similar accj
dent at the same crossing and durin,
the last eight years nearly two doze]
persons have lost their lives at til
same place.