Ingomar, Montana Train Wreck
June 23, 1938
“OLYMPIAN” AND C.C.C. TRAIN IN COLLISION;
YOUTH KILLED AND 13 PEOPLE ARE INJURED
Ingomar, June 23. – (AP) – A head-on
collision between the “Olympian” pride of the
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific
railroad, and a C.C.C. train killed a C.C.C.
youth and injured 13 other persons a mile west
of Ingomar today.
The dead C.C.C. enrollee was identified as
ROBERT ECKERT
of Portageville, N.Y., a worker in the C.C.C.
mess car. Another C.C.C. boy,
Edward Kohlbrenner
of Buffalo, N.Y. was seriously injured.
Railroad officials said the collision occurred
when the west-bound Olympian ran through orders
to meet the east-bound C.C.C. train in Ingomar.
Both locomotives were badly damaged. The
Olympian’s coaches were rerailed [sic] and the
C.C.C. train went down an embankment.
The injured included four trainmen and nine
passengers, one of whom besides
Kohlbrenner,
was reportedly seriously hurt.
On Way East
The C.C.C. train was on its way to Camp Dix,
N.J. from Fort Wright, Spokane.
N.A. Meyer,
superintendent of transportation, announced the
injured list, including all slight:
Mrs. Margaret
Brewer, Madison, Wis., neck.
Mrs. Frank Warren,
Tacoma, neck.
Mrs. Mary J. Ryan,
86, Seattle, head.
Loretta Martin,
Harlowtown, Mont., hand.
Gardine Hanson
[Hansen],
Yankton, S.D., eye.
Mrs. O.O. Rutledge,
Payallup, Wash., back.
L.C. Turner,
Berkeley, Calif., head.
Ruth B. McCoy,
44, New York, ankle.
Sonya Ginsber,
Chicago, neck.
A.P. Dermott
[Austin P. McDermott],
St. Paul, express messenger, shoulder.
F. Sloan [Freeman
Slone],
Berkeley, Calif., porter, back.
Mrs. Lawrence Winestock
[Caroline A. Weinstock],
Des Moines, Iowa, shock.
The Helena Independent, Helena, MT 25 Jun
1938
Transcribed by
Jenni Lanham. Thank you,
Jenni!
Austin P. McDermott is listed in
the 1930 census for St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN. He was 39, lived on
South Hamline Avenue, St. Paul with his wife Sybil and two daughters
Shirley and Jean, and infant son, Thomas. He worked as an express
messenger.
Freeman Slone is listed in the
1930 census for Berkeley, Alameda Co., CA. He was 33, negro,
lived with his wife Addie, and worked as a porter on the railroad.
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