Boyd,
Wisconsin Train Wreck
January 12, 1900
WRECK NEAR BOYD.
Central Freight Goes Through a Bridge, Fourteen
Cars Burned.
Freight train No. 21, west bound on the
Wisconsin Central, was wrecked between Boyd and
Caldott at 7:30 o’clock Friday night and
fourteen cars were burned. No one was injured.
The train left here at 1:30 o’clock Friday
afternoon in charge of
Conductor B. F. Bowen and
Engineer Lamp.
All went well until the train reached a little
bridge west of Cadott. It is believed one of the
cars was thrown off the track by a broken flange
just before the bridge was reached and that the
car crashed into the bridge. At any rate the
bridge went down and 14 cars piled up in a heap
around where the bridge had been.
One of the cars was loaded with oil in
barrels and in some manner, possibly by the
sparking of the iron and steel as the cars broke
up, this oil was ignited and in a short time the
heaped up wreckage was a mass of flames.
The wrecking crew was sent up from here and
the track cleared at 2 o’clock that afternoon.
The midnight trains, No. 3 and No. 4, were sent
around the wreck by way of the Omaha, between
Marshfield and Eau Claire. Passengers on No. 2
and No. 6 were transferred around the wreck on
foot.
The fourteen cars that were burned were
loaded with oil, general merchandise, coal and
stone. While no official statement has been
made, it is probable that the loss to the
company will run up to from $10,000 to $15,000.
The Stevens Point Journal, Stevens Point,
WI 13 Jan 1900
Transcribed by
Jenni Lanham. Thank you,
Jenni!
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