The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-10-18
issued: 1911-09-25
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note: CLASSIFIED ADS I CENT. A WORD VOL. 10 Dashes Into Wagon Loaded With Merrymakers TRACK COVERED WITH DISMEMBERED BODIES Dangerous Crossing Adds to Deathroli—Sixteen Killed Others Injured NEENAH, Wis., Sept. 24.—Sixteen deaths probably will be the result of a mile-a-mlnute Chicago & Northwestern passenger train at Neenah crashing into a party o£ 31 young people loaded upon a hayrack today. A big billboard along the railway track obstructed tbe view trom thi! locomotive as well as from the wagon. Dust and fog did the rest. Twelve persons on the hayrack were killed instantly, one has died since and three of the others injured are believed to be ' fatally hurt. Nine of tho 31 people on the wagon escaped without a scratch and so did both horses. Nobody on the train suffered except from tho Jar. The collision occurred at 3:40 o'clock this morning on the Commercial street crossing here. Train No. 121, northbound, whirled through the wagonload of people at a 46 degree angle. This peculiarity was owing to the fact that the crossing ls diagonal. The victims were returning from the Peter Hanson farm, where they had gone to attend tbe celebration of a wedding anniversary. All but two, who were from Chicago, were residents of MenaBha. Dismembered Bodies. Armless, legless and headless bodies, covered the right of way as the train of nine coaches came to a stop, 300 feet from the scene of the accident. Several of the bodies were mutilated >o badly that identification wis possible, only by fragments of clothing. Six bodies ot victims were discovered on the engine pilot, where they lay until removed by the train crew and passengers. Two others of the persons killed were hurled through a flagman's shanty with such force as to overturn the little structure. One of theBe was Miss Finn, who was projected through one of the side walls of. the house and was still alive when removed. She died a few hours later. Thrown Over Barn. Another'ot the victims was thrown high over a barn 50 feet from…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0384096
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History: https://touchstonesnelson.ca
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text