The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-01-04


ing, but their cries q terror and 1or.
ror 40 they realized what Wa about
to happen, will remain hxsd In ny
mind for many and many . day.
Describes Il A. Terrible.
When we were trying to get the
injured from out the wreckags. 20
that they would not be burned, as the
flames came along. 1t was terrible.
The heat was intense and many Of
those who we're trying to rescue 9th
crs, had their hands and faces badly
burned. The railroad officials did
everything in their power to aid the
injured
II can't describe how sudden the
thing happened said George Law.
renee of 1925 Girard avenue south,
Minneapolis. Mr.. Lawrence was In
charge OF the Pullman sleepers and
the diner. In the dining car, IN
which four people were killed, we had
our first hint of trouble when the car
left the track and began humping
along the ties. There were about
ten of us in the diner at the time
and we were all thown about the
car like dice In box. Then came
the crash of timber and steel and It
was horrifying. Then our car turn
ed completely over and lay on tts
side.
All Help In Relief Work.
"All Of the people in our car ex.
cept those fatally injured, were able
to get out without trouble, and i'm
mediately started In trying to ct
out the injured.
Poor AL Lodge and Joe Mosher
must have tried to Jump from the
train, for both of the we're found
outside the car crushed in a horrible
manner. They must have either
jumped through the dining car or the
vestibule window. They would pro-
badly have been killed, though, II
they had stayed IN the kitchen, judg.
ing from the manner in which the
car was smashed.
Mrs. Jessie Whaling of Cutbank,
Montana, managed to save her two
year old child from injury, but only
after receiving severe cuts about the
head and hands.
Miss Vera Diets, the Alexandria
school teacher, who was injured, was
to Minot where she intended
visiting an old friend. H Fl. Berg,
foreman of the Independent. She also
intended visiting relatives at Ray. Miss
Dietz Is receiving the best of care in
hospital at Breckenridge.
Mrs John DAILY, wife OF the G. N
agent at Bottineau, had spent several
months in st. Paul with her mother
and was returning to Bottineau with
the babe, then five months old, whom
the father had never seen. She would
have been home on New Years and
such . Homecoming a. it was to have
been. The babe Was so badly injured
IL the wreck, it's skull being crushed,
that death came shortly after and the
mother had very narrow escape. A !!
travelling man who hsd crewled thru
the cars to ascertain If there was any
one who could not ct out, heard the |
pltlful cries Of woman who was pray
ing to be rescued. He kicked in the
door Of the standard sleeper and found
Mrs, DAILY with her babe in her arms. !
Such look OF thank fulness that came |
over that woman's face as tic rescuer
carried her out. Her prayer had been
Sidney Jeffries, young Minot man |
Rho Is employed in the Offices OF the |
Great Northern of this city, was re.
turning from Kentucky where he had
been visiting. Jedries was in the rear
9nd OF the smoking car talking to fell |
ow when the crash came. He saws the
hollow rail split as the train was going |
around slight curve at a rate Of As
miles an hour and ran along the ties
Tor some distance He knew what was
coming and someone shouted; "Hold on
to something" He did and the car
turned over twice, landing in ditch Is
feet below. As the car was turning
over, the floor appeared above him and
trunk full Of bananas, apples and
ranges belonging to the ''butcher" fell
,ver him He says there we're many
Daeoes in the car and they grew excit
I'd, and they fought like dogs trying to
get out. He was not badly Injured.
Just bruised all over the body. He man
aged to get out and afterwards found
his suit case, all smashed, along the
right. Of way. The only thing missing
from the suit case was souvenir OF
the famous refreshuent which has
made Kentucky famous, which be was
bringing to Minot for friend.
He says the sight was horrible about
The wrecked train. Blood seemed to be
dowine everywhere, and the cries OF the |
injured we're terrible. From under one
of the coaches the legs of woman ex-
Tended, but the coach pinned the body
70 the ground and it was burned to
crisp. The odor of burning human
desh pormeated the air. II was sight
never to be forgotten, and those who
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