The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-07-17
Head On Crash Tears
Coach Injuring Many

From thursdays Daily.
Charles Eberhart, itss East Sew
enth street, 81. Paul; cut about face
and Internally injured; not expected
to live through the day.
Frank Newcomber, motorman, FIJI
ty.fourth street and Nleoilet avenue,
Minneapolis; head and face cut, In
ternal injuries.
Adolph 1razie, Plsinview, Mimi;
face badly cut.
n. r. Hauser, travelling salesman,
Il. X. Mulford Drug company, Min
neapoIis; face cut.
Mrs. Frank Shirley, Flftyfourth
street and LyndaIe avenue, minnea-
polls; face cut.
John Luxem, 25ss Firth avenue
south, Minneapolis; leg hurt.
Joseph Bradbury, conductor Of
motor, Minneapolis; arm fractured,
head cut.
Or. Harvey 6aehraeh, Minneapo-
lis: one rib broken, face and tongue
cut.
W. e. Ross, ttss East Seventh
street, 81. Paul; head cut.
Emma Huettner, NOrthHsld; face
cut.
Fred Albsrs, farmer near North.
field; head cut
Mrs. Guy o. miller, EsrIbaalt; head
cut
Ms. Fred Seth, NorthHeId; back
hurt.
Herbert Schumacher, eight years
old, Faribault; slightly cut. .
A. A. Culver, MantorVilIs; face cut.
Arthur koenlg, sioux Falls, 8. o.;
slightly cut. o..
TWO sons Of Arthur kOenIs; slight.
" hurt.
Nineteen persons were injured,
three seriously, in head-on collision
at Faribault yesterday afternoon be-
tween a passenger motor and a
freight train on the Dan Patch line.
The injured:
Every Seat Torn Loose.
Every seat In the motor was torn
loose; every window broken. The
steel car got a big dent In its nose.
The steam locomotive was badly
battered, its tender crumpled up.
That there were no deaths is consid-
cred directly attributable to the fact
that the electric motor was allsteel.
II did not leave the track Neither
did the locomotive nor any OF the
twenty freight cars behind II.
The collision occurred on a curve.
Its cause Is as yet unknown. The
fireman and engineer Of the freight
both jumped, escaped injury. Immed-
lately upon the receipt of news of the
wreck, John Mcknight, superintend-
ent of the Dan Patch line, wired a
request to the state railroad and
warehouse commission that II inyesti.
gate to FIX responsibility. The in
quiry probably will begin this morn
ing. Until the Investigation, no state
ment Of the cause Of the wreck is
forthcoming.
Saw Freight Bearing Down.
The passenger motor, No. 4, left
Faribault at 2:25 D. m. It was run
ming on a spur track that leads from
the main line between Mankato and
Minneapolis TO downtown Faribault.
The spur Is q winding one. At
Fourteenth street, about one and a
half miles from the station, there Is
a sharp curve. The motor swung
around Il and the motorman saw the
freight bearing down, only a few
hundred feet away. II was only sec
onds till the crash.
A special car was. sent out from
the Faribault station and physicians
responded to q call. The injured
were put into the relief car and
reached st. Luke's hospital within
an hour after the accident.
Charles Eberhart OF st. Paul is
the only one whose recovery is not
expected. He Is hurt internally and
the nature OF his injuries was not
determinable last night.
r. Z. wyer secretary to M. w.
Savage, president Of the Dan Patch
line, said last night that the acct.
dent occurred on a piece OF road that
was acquired only July 1, and then
upon only two or three days notice
that the Dan Patch road was to oper.
ate It. All the train crews, he said,
were necessarily unfamiliar with the
track
manksto People on Train.
Among those who were hurt ON
the wreck OF the Dan Patch train al
Faribault last evening were Mrs. O.
A. Patterson, head of the millinery
department OF the Kruse women's
QUILTING store; her daughter. Miss
Helen Patterson, aged twelve: and
mother, Mrs. F. L. Greer OF Bloom
ington. Wis. All three were on theil
way to ST. Paul. The shock OF the
collision threw them forward VIC
lently. the same as the other passen
gers. Mrs. Greer suffered a hard
blow on the forehead over both eyes
Mrs. Patterson was badly bruised IN