Keil,
Wisconsin Train Wreck
December 17, 1912
Two Trainmen Killed in Wisconsin Wreck.
Body of a Third Man is Also found Mangled After
Accident at Kiel-Passenger Hits Freight.
Signal Obscured by Snow
Fireman ANTONE SCHEMICK of Green Bay and
Engineer MATHEW FOLEY are the Victims of
Collision on the St. Paul Line – No Passengers
are Injured – Eight People Killed at Ashtabula,
O., When coal train Strikes Street Car.
(Special to the Northwestern)
Green Bay, Wis., Dec. 17. – Fireman ANTONE
SCHEMICK of Green Bay was killed outright and
Engineer MATHEW FOLEY of Milwaukee died of his
injuries, the result of passenger train No. 2 of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway from
the copper country, running into a freight train
at Kiel early today.
While none of the passengers was seriously
injured, a number were said to have been badly
shaken up.
NO PASSENGERS HURT
Superintendent Hastings returned from Kiel this
noon and reported no passengers had been
injured. The track is almost cleared of the
wreckage.
SCHEMICK, the dead fireman, was married about a
year ago. FOLEY was a veteran in the service of
the road.
A third body, that of ALBERT ALLARD of Wayside,
Wis., was later found in the wreck. The accident
was caused by the engine of an extra freight
train moving on a side track where it did not
clear the main track.
Among those injured are P. F. Honey, mail clerk
of Superior, Wis., and Comet Bennette, a
passenger, Santa, Wis. The injuries will not
prove fatal.
The Daily Northwestern, Oshkosh, WI 17 Dec
1912
Green Bay – Two
members of the train crew were killed and
passengers were given a severe shaking up when
train No 2, limited and through train to
Milwaukee on the Milwaukee road, crashed into a
freight train at Kiel. The dead: ANTON SCHEMICK,
fireman, Green Bay; MATTHEW FOLEY, engineer,
Milwaukee. The fireman was killed outright and
the dead body was found in the wreckage a short
time ago; the engineer died after being removed
from the wreckage. Both men were in charge of
the passenger train. The cause of the accident
has not yet been learned, but officials here are
investigating.
Gazette, Stevens Point, WI 25 Dec 1912
Transcribed by Kay. Thank you,
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