The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-02-24
Six Of Nine Coaches Ditched
Last Night and Two Others
Leave the Rails
CONDUCTOR DIES; SEVEN HURT
N. E. BIoomer, in Charge of Train,
Is Dead; Ex-senator Mori-
arty Is Hurt
BROKEN RAIL GIVEN AS CAUSE

Melcher f. Boomer conductor,
Green Bay; badly crushed: died today.
Ex-senator NJ. II. Moriarty, pas
senger Crystal Falls; left shoulder
dislocated.
Conductor Dunn, riding as passen-
ger, Milwaukee; painfully cut about
head, feet and hands.
Second cook, name not ascertained:
cut about head.
Express Messenger Polkinghorne;
Mail Clerk f. Libby and Baggageman
+. Wentbury; painfully bruised as was
the brakeman, name unknown.
Flagman Schroeder: bruised and cut
The Chicago. Milwaukee & St Paul
passenger train due to leave Cham
pion for Chicago at 7l5 p. m., was
wrecked at 9:24 o'clock last night
while entering the Republic yards Six
of the nine coaches were derailed and
overturned. The tender and two sleep
ing cars left the tracks but still re-
main upright on the ties, while the en-
gine and the rear sleeper clung to the
rails
Conductor Melcher r.. Bloomer. the
most seriously hurt, died at Green Bay
today. Besides those injured all of the
passengers We're badly shaken.
The derallment occurred as the
heavy passenger was pulling into the
station yards. The train, although an
hour and thirty-tive minutes late, was
proceeding carefully because Of the
heavy trackage and the approach to
the station and was estimated To be
making about eight miles an hour 1t
had crossed the county road. banked
high with snow, and had entered in
side the South Shore crossing when
the tender was derailed, apparently as
the result of a broken rail. The mail
and express cars sheered to the left
and were hurled on their sides. forty
feet away. The baggage car and the
smoker followed and lie nearby, also
on their side. The day coach left the
rails, but remained upright on the ties,
while the dining car and the sleeper,
the next in line. were turned to the
left and lie almost bottom side up.
the ties and the last sleeper remains
on the track. The tender was pulled
n considerable distance by the engine,
which had crossed the broken part in
the rail in safety. before it stopped.
A freight crew. including engineer
and fireman, was i'm charge of the
train, the regular employees having
been prevented from taking the pas
senger on its southbound trip because
of the operation of the fifteen-hour
law. on account of the heavy storm of
the last two days the man had been
compelled to work longer than the av-
erage shift and il was necessary to
relieve them. Mr.. Dunn, the regular
conductor, was travelling to his home
in Milwaukee. The passenger service
was heavy and the train was crowded,
many persons returning from the ski
tournament at Ishpeming.
Conductor Bloomer was in the bag
gage ear He was pinned beneath Il
safe or heavy trunk The lower part
of his body was crushed and he re-
ceived internal injuries
Ex-senator Moriarty was returng to
his home In, Crystal Falls after a visit
10 Marquette. He and Mr.. Dunn were
seated at n table in the dining car. The
sheering of the coach threw Mr. Nor
iarty against the wall, dislocating his
shoulder. Mr. Dunn received painful
cuts about tho face. hands and feet.
The second cook. also in this car, was
cut about the head, presumably by
glass.
Hancock People on Train.
Among passengers on the ill-iated
train were Mr.. and Mrs Jacob Baer'
oseph Schultz. DIR. a. +. Fischer ana
DR. r. j. Mas of Hancock. The Han
cock people were bound fof Chicago.
Among the others leaving Hancock
were Tony Caponi, Billy Perkins, the
two principals In the boxing exhibition
here Saturday and Howard Carr
sporting editor Of the Chicago inter-
Ocean, manager of Caponi.
Henry Baer. received n long dis
tance call Sunday night at midnight
from mis- uncle, Jacob Baer when Mr..
Baer said that he and Mrs. Baer were
compelled to crawl out Of window
OF the car which had capsized but
that they were IN no wav injured