The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-25
THIRTEEN HURLED
TO INSTANT DEATH
Fast Train Crashes Into
Wagonload of Mer-
rymakers.
BODIES COVER
RAILWAY TRACKS
Six Victims Found on Engine
Pilot, While Two Are Thrown
Against Flagnan's House,
Knocking 1t Over-An-
other Is Tossed High
Over Barn.

Neennh, Wis, September 24.-'Thir.
teen person are dead, three othe =.
hre dying 4 five are seriously hurt
as the result of n fast trn.p on the
ehieaso and Northwestern Railway
early to-day crashing into a hny rack
ON which party OF thirty-one merry
makers were returning from n ceIe-
brntIon.
big building beside the railway
tracks obscured the view from the
locomotive as we'll as from the wagon
Dust and fog were contributory causes
TO the tragedy. Nine members of .ha
party escaped without a scratch No
oooy on the train suffered except from
momentary severe lar.
Collide Crossing
Inc collision occurred at $40 4. NJ
4. the Commercial Street crossing here
Train No. III, northbound. wh,r,ed
osn the "agonload OF singing ard
nappy untortunates. who were return
ing from the Peter Hanson farm
where they had gone to attena tha
ceiebration of wedding anniversary.
All out two. who were Chicago men.
were residents OF Menasha.
The dead:
John Drill, Chicaro
James ChesIock.
Gustav Finn.
Mariei Finn
John Hnrt
Steven I.isik.
Dominick omnicchips;,;
Mabel REM.
John Schedick
Joseph SchedIck
Joseph SIenyo
Frank Sfsrnrdf
ishbeiIe Suchowski
Armiess, legless and heaIless bodies
covered the right of vay as N. 49,.
nine coaches in length. was brourbt 70
stop more than 500 feet from, mo
scene OF the crash. Several of tba
pooies We're SO badly mutilated tbat
iocnsihcation was possible only "
fragments of clothing
Ok Dodies were discovered IN tho
engine pilot, and two others were bur,
al hagman's house with such
Do 10 oVerturn the structure. On,
.HeSe was MISS Finn. who was pro
1ecteo through one of the side walis
OF the house and was breathing wben
recovered. She died a few hours l,te-
Anotner of the victims was thrown
hish over barn fifty feet from, +ba
.racks' Among the occupants of tb,
nay rack who escaped were Mr. ara
Mrs. Joseph Brinzinski and child az
Two years. They were seated in Tho
'front.' half of the rack, the mo,bar
noioing the child in her lap. Ahout
nan way back in the wagon SAT Mar,
oeh"aFtzoauer The latter was hurl-
ca aoout nifty feet and rendered un-
conscious. When found by rescuers
the Brinzinski child was in her arms
having escaped unscathed. The mar
ems or the child were only slightly
injured.
Did Not See Trnin.
Peter Hanson. driver and on,,a 20
the horses attached to the Inflated RE
managed to hang to the reins and was
the only person aboard who was nor
temporarily stunned by the collision
lie declares he did not observe m.
onrushing train until his team had
reached the track. He whipped IN III a
horses, but managed to get the wapoo
only half way over.
The train is said to have been near
~ half hour behind time and was
running approximately sixty miles an
hour Practically every person on the
wagon was an employee of the Menasha
Woodenware Company. and all were
invited to the Hanson farm TO attend
the wedding anniversary of one of
their fellow employees. Mr.. Hanson ha II
conveyed the merrymakers to his farm
in the early evening and was taking
them back home.
A coroner's jury was impaneled.
but adjournment was taken to give the
district attorney and others opportun-
ity to interview witnesses The bodies
were removed to the Menasha morgue,
where they will remain until to-mor-
row. During the past eight years
nearly a score of persons have lost