The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-16

lengthWise, tipped over on slde
and threw the passengers to the for
ward end Of the car.
Heroic Work Saves Many.
Passengers were hurled against the
seats, through windows and in some
cases pinned beneath tho wrecked seats
in the day coach. Many were made
| unconscious and only heroic work by
the passengers saved many or them
from death.
Minneapolis and st. Paul hospitals
are caring for wreck victims who
were taken from the cars by those who
were u%niniured and hurried to the
| twin cities in the coaches that remain
| ed on the track.
In Front OF Station.
Going at fairly high speed to make
I'D lost time, the train sped through
the village, having no orders to stop.
In front of the station the day coach
split the switch, rumbled over the ties
and onto the viaduct Of the a The
treBtle crashed as the coach struck 1t,
and then the coach, after smashing
its coupling with the car ahead, plung-
ed over the trestle and lay in the roa
The brick platform of the station was
plowed up like SO many clods or earth.
In a little more than half an hour
after the wreck every pas
| S6lEGr ndu ISCSAFEu ICiAP"A IS
ment and was made as comfortable az
possible in the other coaches, several
OF them being placed on makeshi1t
beds in the baggage cars.
The woman who died without re"
gaining consciousness could not be
identified in Mendoza. The BODY was
carried into the station but later the
coroner of Dakota county gave per
mission to have It taken to st. PAU
lat the J.. w. Hurley undertaklne
lrooms il was identified as that or MISS
IHigburg, Minneapolis.
Reseuers Work in Dark.
Groans and shrieks Of the injured
nassengers in the day coach told the
other passengero who jumped from the
coaches what had happened. TheJ
/ rushed down the embankment, led BY
} T. D. Sterling, Charles Mines and j
In. Noes, all Of the Omaha roads en-
! cheering department., and JOSEPH
{ Weber, conductor Of the train.
The crash had put out the lights IL
the two coaches and tho rescue worl
was conducted in the dark.
: AS the rescuers reached the day
r coach a man vas dragging an uncon
5 ~scious woman through one of the win
dnws. The woma was carried on
land laid beside the track, where sh'
Adied q moment later.
Nun Organizes Relief Workers.
The men were then joined by Siste
Lawrence of the order of the Presen
~Etation, who organized the first aid an
Irelief work while calls were sent t.
lSt. Paul for physicians. Several auto
90 tmobiles carrying physicians, sped Z
h the place and in less than an hour tn
Injured passengers were all recelVin
expert care.
The windows that were not broke
were knocked out, the end doors wer
lopened and the injured were carrie
out quickly. They were examined b
the physicians and those more serious
e ly injured were taken first into tn
coaches ahead, which were converte
into hospital wards.
p. G. Hoffman, 80 years old, address
unknown, and William Ments, livin
at the Frederic hotel, st. Paul, wer
1.-The mott seriously injured. Hoffma
u was cut until his face could not b
recognized and his body was cut an
bruised. The physicians at first di
mot believe he would live, but late
t. said he had a chance to ecover.
Ments Has Skull Fracture.
oi Mr.. Ments is believed to have re
, ceived 4 fracture of the skull, but ply
I. ~sicians say he may recover.
!, Anxious Crowds Meet Train.
News of the wreck reached the twi
cities before the train arrived with tt
q injured and hundreds Of persons wei
-, lat the stations awaiting the arrival
~ the train. Many had friends or rela
tives whom they expected to arrive @
the train that was wrecked.
The Twin City limited was due
-IMendota at 1921 p. m. and as passir
ID through the village ten minutes la
q when the wreck occurred. The static
agent, r. J. Shelter, had locked IL
station and had gone home as the ira
Twas not to stop.
Nearly every resident of the villag