The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-09-01

as he suspected.
From Saturdays Daily.
Trainmen in charge of an extra
freight on the Northwestern road,
running west, this morning, must
have had several rabbits pedal ex-
tremitles concealed about their per
sons. They certainly were in luck,
having escaped death or at least
serious injury.
The train was dashing along at
full speed on down grade. The
engine got safely across a bridge
over the outlet of Elysian Lake, near
GAINESVILLE but steel car following
and loaded to the guards with coal,
toppled over, dragging five other
cars, all plunging off the bridge into
the ditch below, quite distance. The
bridge seemed to give away in the
center, after the locomotive passed
over it.
TrestIe Badly Damaged.
The bridge was damaged consider
ably. The ties and rails were rip
ped from end to end, and nothing
remains intact but the iron girders.
The trestle is about forty feet long.
The track and ties for some dis
lance beyond the bridge are torn
up, making the damage all the more
serious.
One Car Turned Over.
One of the cars turned completely
over and the wheels are buried out
of sight in the mud. The caboose
was prevented from plunging down
the embankment by rail which
had become twisted and acted as
brace. Had the way car" gone over
it is quite likely that the occupants
would certainly have been either
killed or suffered injuries.
Rails, ties, splinters from dam
aged cars are piled up in a heap
and some of the rails are twisted out
of any semblance of shape.
Occurred at Five O'clock.
The accident occurred at five
o'clock. Engineer A. A. Fayes was
in the locomotive cab and Conduc-
tor George Spofford was in charge
of the train.
| The cause of the accident could
not be determined.
| The wrecking outfit from Waseca
is at work clearing away the de-
bris
Passengers Were Delayed.
| Passengers due here at 1880 to-
day were late in arriving owing to
| the transfer that had to be made
at the scene of the wreck. A train
was run out from Mankato to bring
| in those for this city.
| The eastbound passenger leaving
at $50 this morning run over the
Chicago Great Western as far as
Waterville and thence over the Min.
neapOlis and st. Louis to Waseca.
From Fridays Daily
Chief Donahue has received an.
other letter from Sheriff A. Bauman
Jr., of Fremont, Dodge county, Neb.
asking him to secure sworn state.
ment from Kehner & Otto, proprie
tors of the Northwestern restaurant
to the effect that De Aerian, Richie
G. Co., who played at the White City
the first week in July, were in Their
restaurant during that time, and that
the napkins used were similar to the
one found bearing the name of the
!! firm.
Statement From Woman.
! Sheriff Bauman writes that there
is no doubt in his mind but that the
people under arrest there are the
parents of the child whose body was
found in a box car there August
He says that he has six page state
ment from the woman telling tina,
her child was born in Fremont Sat
urday, August 5. some time after
midnight, and that the man who
calls himself De Aerian, but whose
right name is Rogers, and whose
home is Hepburn, Idaho, was in the
room at the time that the child was
born. He also has statement from
the little girl that the next Sunday
morning her mamma carried pack
age down to the depot, and the state
ment of seven witnesses working
for the American Express compan!
that the little girl and her mother
came into the express office and ask
ed for some brown wrapping paper
and that they can identify the paper
THAT was wrapped around the child