Marshfield, Wisconsin Train Wreck
May
31, 1894
AN AWFUL DISASTER
Frightful Railway Accident on the Wisconsin
Central – Several of the Passengers Killed, with
a Long List of Minor Casualties --- Fire Adds to
the Horror of the Wreck and Some of the Victims
Cremated.
MILWAUKE, May 31. --- A Marshfield (Wis.)
dispatch says: A railway accident resulting in
the loss of eight lives and the injury of from
fourteen to twenty persons, more or less
seriously, occurred here at 3:15 a. m. Train No.
4, on the Wisconsin Central railway, ran through
an open switch and was completely wrecked. The
cars afterward took fire and were consumed. Four
persons were taken from the wreck dead and four
others are missing --- supposed to have been
caught in the mass of broken timbers and
consumed.
Except the four or five passengers and three
or four trainmen who are missing and believed to
have been burned to death in the wrecked
coaches, the following is as complete a list of
the dead and wounded as can be obtained at 1
o'clock;
KILLED
JAMES HUBBARD, engineer, of Stevens Point.
GEORGE GERHARDT, fireman, of Stevens Point.
JUDSON BIGELOW, brakeman, of Stevens Point.
A MR. RUSSELL, a civil engineer in the employ of
the company.
Aged man and woman, names unknown; burned in the
ruins. It is said they were not on the train at
St. Paul.
INJURED
HENRY CHESTER, Marshfield, Wis.; legs and spine
badly injured.
O. W. BOZELY, news agent, Stevens Point, Wis.;
injured internally.
ARTHUR TURNICE, Chicago; head cut and otherwise
injured; will recover.
JOHN BIGELOW, head brakeman, Stevens Point, Wis.
DR. WEITZEL, Glidden, Wis.' hurt internally.
FANNIE BURTLE, Springdale, Ill.; hand badly cut.
WILLIAM RYAN, Sturgeon Bay, Wis.; ribs broken
and head cut.
E. A. TWITCHELL, attorney at law, Minneapolis;
head cut.
The Rolla New Era Missouri 1894-06-02
Submitted & transcribed by Stu
Beitler Thank you,
Stu!
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