The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-12-15
ESCAPING STEAM
OTHERS BURNED
Disaster Occurred On Texas
Railway Last Night
FIVE WERE NEGROS
Smoker Filled With Colored
People Transformed Into
Cauldron.
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IAssociated Press Dispatch.l
Houston, Texas, December "a.
A recheck late this morning
by railroad investigators piae-
ed the toll Of last nights
Southern Pacific wreck at Hum
BILE, seventeen miles from here
at fourteen, Of whom four were
white men. Three of the dead
white men have been identified
as w. A. Baber of Lufkin Tex
as: William Campsey, eonduc-
tor, lof Houston, and NJ. Clark,
news dealer of Houston. OF the
injured seventeen this morn
ina were still receiving medical
attention at hospitals here. The
majority are negroes
The total number of dead as
a result of the wreck last night
on the Southern Pacific railway
at Humble, seventeen miles
from here was brought to sew
enteen shortly after noon today
when three more victims died
in local hospitals. OF the three
to die late this morning, two
are white men, Albert Pichard
and Edgar Randle, both OF
Houston.
The casualty list shows six
white men and eleven negroes
killed The white men were res
idents of Houston with one ex-
ception, and the majority OF the
negroes resided here.
Thorp, Wis, December a.
One trainman was killed and
two others were badly injured
and about twenty passengers
more or less seriously hurt
early today when Minneapolis,
ST. Paul. and Sault Ste Marie
psssxndeS- strain fao: 8, Chicago
10 Minneapolis, eollided head-on
with a freight train near here.
A relief train from Chippewa
Falls carrying doctors and
nurses were rushed to the scene
of the accident. The passenger
train was running about an hour
late and was speeding to make
IN time when the crash oe-
CURED. One of the dead is
Fireman Hariing Of Chippewa
Falls. The cause OF the acei7
dent has not been aseertained.
{. J. Harling OF Chippewa
Falls, fireman on the freight
train, wat the man killed
James Ellsworth OF Stevens
Point, the freight engineer, lost
a lea and was seriously injured
about the head. The engine
crew of the passenger train
saved themselves by jumping.
A mail clerk on the passenger
. train whose name has not been
learned also was reported to
have been seriously injured The
passenger train was running
about an hour late and was
speeding to make up time when
the crash occurred about a mile
east of here. A relief train
from Chippewa Falls, twenty
five miles west, carrying doc
tors and nurses, was rushed TO
the scene. The cause OF the
wreck was said to have been
mistaken train orders.
Both HarIing and Ellsworth
were caught in the wreckaee
Of the cab Of the first engine on
the freight train which was a
doubIeheader. IL was necessary
to amputate EIIsworth's foot to
oct him out, but Hariing could
not be reached because Of the
escaping steam.
y West Bend, Wis, December
14.-Fireman n. Ioomans was
killed and Engineer Thomas
Green was slightly injured to-
day when the engine and tour
cars of a Chicago and North
western milk express left the
rails and plunged over an en-
bankment a mile north OF here.
The cause of the wreck has not
been determined, but members
of the train crew blame spread
ing rails.
Houston. Texas. December IA
seven persons were scalded TO deaf
w live steam and approximatel
hirty- five others burned. man
fatally, when Housto
East and West Texas passenge
rain No. % sideswiped switc
'n"ine near the station at Humbl
few minutes after ten o'cloc
night.
The seven met death when two
nch steam pipe. torn loose fror
he cvliDder head on the switch en-
inc by the explosion. swept aroun
nd crashed through a window @
Na forward smoking car of tn
.asenger train. The live hissin
team transformed the smoker
Med with negroes and negro wo
'"o"---intn . cauldron. Conducto
VILLAIN Camrsey. in the smoker a
he rnnment Of IMPACT. died instant
-. His face and body were scalde,
~ the 1--we steam. NJ. Young. tn
rain news dealer, also died in
trntIv. His body was found undo
nile % papers. magazines an
: III.
Five Negroes In Toll
Tho Eve others who were kille,
)" III" steam were two negro me-
M .hrsc negro wcirer, passenger
4 'h.- coach
"nrfttiug' IF Ire switch ensipl