Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-09-06
WRECKS KILL TEN
IN BADGER STATE
Accidents Occur Near Green
Bay and Camp Douglas.
TRACKS WERE WASHED OUT
Passenger Trains Go into Ditch as
Result of Heavy Rains-All But One
Who Lost Lives Were Members OF
Train Crew-Over Thirty Injured.

Green Bay, Sept. 3.-Five mem
bers of the train crew and one pas
senger were killed at 1880 O'Clock
Sunday morning when Chicago and
Ashland limited train No. 112, south
bound, of the Chicago & Northwest
ern road was wrecked at washout
two miles north of Lyndhurst, which
is fifty miles northwest Of this city
Twenty-six members of the crew
and passengers were injured, seven
of them seriously, and more than
100 passengers were severely shak-
en- up.
The dead are:
Bushey, Charles, conductor, Mil
waukee.
Marx, George M, brakeman, Mil
waukee.
Bennett, Carroll, baggageman, An
tigo.
Sheldon, Stuart G., express mesi
senger, Milwaukee.
Jones, John, engineer, Green Bay.
Calkins, w. F., passenger, Shaw
ano.
Heroic work by passengers and
surviving members of the train crew
under great difficulties saved many
| lives, and heavy downpour of rain
prevented the wreckage from being
consumed by fire. Relief and wreck
ing trains were sent from Green Bay
and Amigo and the dead and in
jured were removed to hispitals in
Green Bay.
The train consisted OF smoker,
mail car, baggage car, three Pullman
sleepers and day coaches and was
bowling along at a rate of thirty
| miles an hour when it struck wash
out, caused by cloudburst. which
had carried away a considerable Sec
ton of the track.
The engine was thrown on it's side
as it plowed with terrific force
! through the roadbed. The baggage
car next was telescoped, pinioning
| four of those killed under the de-
bris. The mail and Smoking car
| tipped over Although the other
cars were derailed, they remained
| upright.
Among the injured are members
| of the Wausau baseball club of the
| Wisconsin, Illinois league, who were
enroute to Green Bay. A number of
| them were severely injured.
Those who escaped uninjured
| quickly recovered from the shock
and turmoil and worked heroically
| to rescue traiEmen who were pin
| toned under the wreckage. The
bodies of the conductor. expressman,
baggageman and brakeman were
| found under debris of the baggage
car They had been killed instantly.
| Alex. Schools, a mail clerk, was alive
when aid reached him and for five
| hours he was held under the wreck
age while the rescuers struggled to
| release him. He was badly crushed,
but may survive his injuries.
The scene of the wreck is in an
isolated spot and in thickly wooded
section. Before news of the wreck
could be communicated to Green
| Bay, it was necessary for Herbert
| Huelsbeck, news agent, to run to the
| nearest depot, mile and half dis
tant, and wire for relief trains upon
/ order of w. d Cantillion, general
manager Of the Northwestern road,
whose special car was attached to the
wrecked train.
Camp Douglas.-One of the worst
wrecks which ever occurred on the
Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul, Mime
apolis & Omaha railroad took place
| about two miles east of here when
the train ran into a washout, re-
sulting in the death of four persons,
six persons seriously injured and
score or more slightly cut and
bruised and suffering from shock.
Most of the latter are women.
The dead are: Thompson, engi-
neer; Abraham, fireman; Lee, bag
gagaman, and a mail clerk, name un-
known.
The train had been tagged at Tun-
mel City on account of washout just
west of Elroy and later was ordered
to back up to this city. When the
! train reached Lemonweir river, it
found the high bridge and banks on
both sides gone, and plunged into
the whirling mass OF water below.
That so many escaped death, con-
sidering the fact that all of the
coaches plunged into the river and
piled up, is miraculous.
The smoking car was carried sew
eral hundred feet downstream, but
eral hundred feet downstream, but
all it's occupants escaped.