The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-12-11
WILLIAM CLASSCO
INJURED in CRASH
Former Redwood Falls Man Has
Car Struck by Train Near
Faribault

William Glassco, son of Mrs. Julia
Glassco of Redwood Falls, received
severe cuts and bruises, when his
service truck was hit by passenger
train near Faribault, Minnesota.
The Faribault Daily News gives the
following account of the accident.
William Glassco, employee of the
Glassco Maytag company of this city,
was slightly injured Thursday after
noon at Rock Island railroad cross
ing three miles north of Faribault
when the service truck he was driv-
ing was struck by northbound pas
senger train shortly after 8 o'clock.
Glassco was resting at his home on
Division street east today, nursing.
several cuts and bruises, but attend
ing physicians stated that the injur-
les were not overly serious and that
fortunately no bones were broken.
A severe cut to the bone over one
eye, gashes on the face and hands, q
painful leg bruise and a, general
shake-up was the extent of his in
juries. - .5
The crash occurred just this side
of the Rock Island viaduct on High
way No. /, where narrow side road
to the C.. C. Lund farm treacherously
crosses the railroad tracks. From
the main highway the road sharply
slopes to the tracks and then climbs
over hill to the Lund farm. The
tracks are at the bottom of the
miniature valley and are not visible
until the motorist gets within 20 feet
Of the crossing, steep hills on both
sides of the grade obscuring the vi
sion.
Glassco was making a service trip
to the Lund home and stopped at the
top of the hill just before the high
way "stop" sign, according to Good
win Meehl, farmer living across the
road from the crossing. He proceed
ed slowly down the hill, the slippery
condition of the road making the go
ing difficult. The train which is due
in Faribault at 1.30 daily, was an
hour and half-late and was making
up time. 1t is believed that the car
slid on the tracks just as the train
/ was whizZing by. The collision was
not head-on, fortunately, the drive
wheels of the engine striking the
truck and hurting it and its dazed oc-
cupant Is feet onto a nearby hillock.
Glassco was extricated from the car,
by the train crew and taken to North
field on the train for medical atten-
tion. A short time later his brother,
j.. R., Glassco, was summoned and
the injured man was taken to his
home in Faribault The car was bad
| ly wrecked, the hood, wheels, tenders,
windshield, dashboard and truck box
being practically destroyed. 1t was.
towed into the Lockwood Chevrolet
garage but it is thought that it is
| beyond repair. ss
1t was not definitely determined to-
day whether the engineer of the train
blew his whistle or not. Mr.. Glassco
said he, heard nothing, and Miss
Florence Tradup, who lives at the
Lund home and who visited the scene
Of the crash soon afterwards, said
She did not know whether the whistle
was blown because. SO many trains,
pass by the farm that no attention is
paid them. Mr.. Meehl was unable
to tell anything about the whistle be-
| ing blown. Local Rock Island Off,
cials, were unable to give the name,
nor could he be reached. for his YER.
sion of the crash. n
/ I.