The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-02
Seven Killed, Five Seriously Hurt,
and Thirteen Injured by Dri
ver's Neglect
naPACT DERA1Ls TWO CARS
Pitiable Scene When the Parents
of Little Folks Arrive on the
Scene

children were killed, five seriously
hurt, and thirteen painfully bruis-
ed late Friday when Northern
Pacific passenger train crashed
into the bus in which they were
returning from consolidated
school near here.
William Fogarty, Alpha Har-
rington, Homer Staller, Mary
Shocks and John, Karl and Char
ley kaivo, brothers, all under l6
years Of age, were killed and their
bodies mangled almost beyond rec
ognition by the wheels of the
train.
Gladys McCandlass, Andy Doan
Mary Fogarty, John Gowan and
Harold Hagen, were the most ser
iously injured, and have been re-
moved to a hospital 1T Mooselake,
where It is said, they will recover.
Carl Mueller, driver OF the bus. was
but slightly injured.
Rear Cars DeraiIed.
The force of the impact deraiIed the
two rear cars OF the train, but none
of the passengers was injured AS
soon as the nature Of the accident was
learned passengers descended from
the train and assisted in caring for
the. injured. Within short time
special train from Carelton and one
from Wiilow-River had arrived with
physicians and nurses who dressed
the injuries and hurried the children
to hospital at Mooselake.
The seven children killed outright
could not have known what occur
red, physicians say. Some Of the lit
tie bodies we're ground almost be
yond recognition and bits of dresses
and flesh covered the pilot of the en-
CINE, which must have crushed some
OF the children when it struck the bus.
Box Like Trap.
The bus was 5ox like affair, without
wiadows, and Mueller said he had no
way of knowing that the train was
approaching. The train does not stop
time. It struck the bus almost in the
ceater, smashing it to bits, and hurl-
ing a portion to the side of the track
while the remainder was ground un-
der the wheels of the train.
Al OF the children who were in the
accident live between this place and
Mooselake. Several of the parents of
the dead children arrived shortly after
the accident and several mothers
tainted at the sight.
No arrests had been made at late
hour tonight.
Police authorities here said that the
driver OF the school bus is required
to 5e tagged across the crossing at
which the accident occurred, or in
some other safe manner assure him.
self that there are no trains approach
ing.
carelessness Of Driver.
Witnesses said tonight that Mue!
Ter did not get out OF the rig TO see
If the train was approaching, and, as
there were no windows in the BUS,
he had no opportunity to know OF the
approaching danger until the train
struck MIN.
Several OF the children who were
not badly injured disappeared from
the scene Of the accident, and for sew
eral hours their parents were unable
to find them.
The bodies Of the children killed
in the accident have been removed to
a morgue at Mooselake. The funerals
will be held Sunday, according to the
present plans.
Another Child Dying
j. F. Thomas, engineer on the Nor
thern Pacific train. said that he did
not see the bus in time to prevent the
accident
Authorities at Mooselake hospital
late tonight said that the death of
Mary Fogarty was expected at any
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