Hustler, Wisconsin
Camp Douglas Train Wreck
September 2, 1912
Another wreck occurred at Hustler, a little
station on the Omaha road near Camp Douglas on
Monday, where three were killed and several
injured. This wreck was also caused by a washout
which wrecked a bridge and let the train go thru
The Grand Rapids Tribune, Grand Rapids, WI
4 Sept 1912
Camp Douglas. – One of the worst
wrecks which ever occurred on the Chicago,
Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Onaham
railroad took place about two miles east of here
when the train ran into a washout, resulting in
the death of four persons, six persons seriously
injured and a score or more slightly cut and
bruised and suffering from shock. Most of the
latter are women.
The dead are:
Thompson, engineer;
Abraham,
fireman; Lee,
baggageman, and a mail clerk, name unknown.
The train had been flagged at Tunnel City on
account of a washout just west of Elroy and
later was ordered to back up to this city. When
the train reached Lemonweir river, it found the
high bridge and banks on both sides gone, and
plunged into the whirling mass of water below.
That so many escaped death, considering the
fact that all of the coaches plunged into the
river and piled up, is miraculous.
The smoking car was carried several hundred
feet downstream, but several hundred feet
downstream, but all its occupants escaped.
The Grand Rapids Tribune, Grand Rapids, WI
11 Sept 1912
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