The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-07-14
Nine People Meet
Injury In n. Wreck ' rec
Train No. IA Goes. into Ditch
near Madison Early We'd,
r.. nesday Morning
INJURED ALL. RECOVER
Conductor Christianson Nearly
Loses Life by Drowning; En-
gineer and Fireman Unhurt

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The east bound passenger.
train on the Minneapolis & ST..
Louis Railway with Conductor
Christianson in charge and Hen
ry Nelson engineer was wrecked
about fifty rods west of Hay
denville and six miles west of
Madison Wednesday morning.
The train was running on regu-
lar time and was due at this
station at 1880 a. m.
There are many conjectures
as to the cause of the wreck
but the appearance Of the track
at the rear of the train showed
plainly. the markings on the ties
of wheel tracks indicating that
truck had jumped from the
rails. This was a short distance
west of a small wooden bridge,
| No. 8S, over which the engine
had already passed.
Engine Crossed
When the train came to a
standstill the engine, mail coach
and baggage car had crossed the
bridge. The engine was still on
the track but the tender and the
two cars mentioned were off the
track on the north side, the cars
being tipped over at an angle OF
about As degrees. The coach fol-
lowing the baggage car fell off
the bridge on the south side OF
the track landing in a few feet
of water and soft mud and in the
fall caught the conductor, who
had thrust his head out OF the
window to see what was wrong,
and held his head under water,
almost drowning him before ne
was able to get out.
The next two coaches were
tonpled over partially upon their I.
sides on the south side OF the
track. The sleeper remained up
right with the rear end upon
the rails. The track was com
pletely swept away. from the
road bed. the ties and rails be-
mo broken, crushed and twisted:
The trestle at the west end OF
the bridge was crushed and brok-
en- and the rails swept from the
ties. Trucks from which cars
had slid were pounded into the
dirt and sand on each slee OF
the embankment and a rail
nassed into the smoker and OUT
through into the chair car. 1t
was a miracle. that no one was
killed. outright. So far as mas
! been learned but few people
were injured.
Few Injured
Walter Shule, Ills Six
teenth st. North, Minneapolis.
Injury of head and chest.
Mrs. Gina Garrison, Wiwau-
ton, Wis., Fractured hip. ;,
VIM. Geagel, North Redwood.
Injury to head. .,.
Ed. c.. Anderson, Nanistlque,
Mich. Injury to spine.
Two. other persons who re-
ceived minor injuries and one
man who had sustained a brok-
.en leg went east by the morn
ing train. fv s, " ss.-. :,
The train is known as No. IA
and was made up Of an engine,
baggage car, mail car. smoker,
day car, chair car and sleeper,
Everything except the rear
trucks of the sleeper was off the
track, and the wreck was the
worst looking thing Of the kind
that, has. ever occurred on this
division of /: the Minneapolis 4
st. Louis railway. People came
for miles by team, auto, horse
back, bicycle and on foot to see
| it. .5ra ~ ..5s.....1ts.
None Dies
The report that a couple OF
those who were injured IN the
wreck had died is not true. The
most desperately injured OF all
seems to, have been Waiter
[Shule. AT last accounts Thurs
day he was on the mend as We're
|, also all those, who were brought
Ito, the hospital at this place;
Madison Free Press. ~: s,,..s.
Ill Il Tom and John Coskran, Of
Minneapolis, arrived Saturday
and will, spend their vacation
With their cousins, Nealls and