Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-25
Fast Passenger Train Strikes Hay
Rack Loaded with Young People
Returning from Wedding.
THREE ARE FATALLY INJURED
Only Nine Persons on Wagon Escape
Without Being Hurt.
MANY PERISH AT SAME PLACE
Nearly Two Dozen Killed in the
Last Eight Years.
VICTIMS TERRIBLY MUTnATED

of Early MOrning. Obscure
Visions of Both Engineer
and Driver.
NEENAH Wis. Sept. 4-Sixteen
deaths probably viii b the result Of
collision Of a mile-a-minuts passenger
train Nith a hayrsck loaded with thirty
one young people at Neenah today.
A big billboard along the railway tracks
obsoured the view Of the engineer as well
as the driver Of the wagon. Mist and
fog did the rest.
Twelve persons on the hal rack we're
killed instantly. one has since died and
three Of eight others injured are believed
tc be fatally hurt Nine Of th- thirty-one
peop.e aboard the wagon escaped without
a scratch. Both horses were unhurt. No
body on the train suffered except from q
momentary severe Jar.
The collision occurred at $40 o'clock this
morning on the Chicago & Northwestern
railway at the Commerri al street crossing
here. Train No Ii, northbound. whirled
through the wagon load Of people al
crossing being diagonal
The victims we're returning from the
Peter Hanson farm. where they had gone
to attend the celebration Of a wedding an
niversary. All but two. men from Chi
cago. were residents Of Menasha.
The dead:
JOHN DRILL Chicago.
JAMES CHESLOCk.
GUSTAV FINN
MABEL FINN.
JOHN HART.
/ STEVEN LISEk.
/ DOMINICk OMMIECHINsKL
/ MABEL REM.
/ JOHN SCHEDICK
/ JOSEPH StHEDICh.
I JOSEPH SIENYO
! FRANK SISGARDT
! ISABELLE SUCHOW SKI
/ The injured:
! Phillip Mott Chicago.
| BENJAMIN DumbroVsE.
Z Antoine Kurmoski.
I Myrou Olson.
! Anna Sodalsk
/ John SuchodolskL
| Amanda SyrinE.
/ Herman SyruE.
! Bodies Cover Right-of-Wsy.
Bodies. terribly cut and nutilated. COW
cred the. rtght-of-vay as the train, nine
coaches IN length. was brought TO q stop
500 feet from the scene Of the wreck Sew
ersi Of the bodies were 50 badly mutilated
that Identification was possible only by
fragments Of clothing.
SIX OF the victims, all dead. we're dis
covered on the engine pilot where they
lay until removed by the train crew and
passengers Two others were hurled
| through a flazman's shanty with such
force as TO overturn the little structure.
I 1F
projected through one Of the side wzFN Of
the house and was still alive when re-
moved She died few hours later. An
other of the victims killed was thrown
high over barn fifty feet from the rail
way right-of-way.
Among the occupants Of the hay rack
who escaped were Mr.. and Mrs Joseph
Brizinski and child. aged years. They
were seated in the front half OF the rack
the mother holding the child in her lap
About half way back in the wagon sat
| Mar Schwartzbaur. The latter was
hurled about fifty feet and rendered un-
conscious. When found b. rescuers the
Brinzinsh CHILD was IN her arms hav.
ing escaped unsczthed- The parents OF
the child were only slightly injured
Peter Hansen. driver and owner Of the
horses hung TO the reius and was the
only person aboard who was not ten.
porarily stunned by the collision He de-
clares he made every effort 20 look in
both directions along the track. but did
not observe the on-rushing train unti
his team had reached the track He whip
ped I'D his horses. but managed 10 GET
the wagon only half way across
Train Behind Schedule.
The train. 1t is said By passengers, wa
nearly half an hour behind schedule. Tn.
fact that the engine stopped on the sec.
ond corner from the lntsrsec tion where
the collision occurred a distance of NOR,
than 800 feet, is evidence that the saeed
was At least sixty miles an hour II 1,
said that the fact that the rails wer,
slippery from rain may serve 70 modify
this estimate
J Practically sverp person on the waEor
vas Al employe Of the Menasha Wooden.
ware company. and all were invited Z,
ehe Hansen farm 10 attend the weddinI
anniversary Of one Of their fellow en-
! ployes- Mr.. Hansen had conveyed IN,
merTymskers 10 his farm in the earl,
evening and was taking them back home
the round tHp being complsted sxcep
!
p CURED.
On the outgoing trip the hay racl
! collected forty persons, but the rig VA
uncomfortably crowded and on the re
; turn trip an additional wagon was OBJ
tained. Eight OF the forty occupied tn,
? second vehicle. which followed about
mile behind. A coroner's jury was i'm
psnelled as soon as possible but ad
P journed 70 give the district attorney an,
z others opportunity to interview witnesses
, The bodies were removed 20 a Mensshi
morgus, where they WiI remain until 70
morrow.
A farmer. his wife and tVo childr.,
were recently killed IN a similar scciden
- AZ the same crossing During the las
? eight years nearly two dozen person
E have lost their lives a. the same place
/. POPulist Committee 20 Meet.
? OSCEOLA, Neb- sept 3a-A rneetinl
? OF the Peoples Indspendsnt state com
p mittee has been called 10 assemble a
: Grand Island on FRIDAY evening ssptern