Superior, Wisconsin Train Wreck
August 1913
Superior—Indignant over the ore car
collision in which three persons were killed and
several injured, 250 dock workers struck. The
accident is blamed to careless switching. The
known dead: Nick Libest, laborer, Superior; John
Koski, laborer, Superior; unidentified man,
supposed laborer. The fatally injured: Isaac
Isel, laborer, leg cut off; unidentified man,
laborer, leg and arm cut off. Badly hurt; John
Koshlo, bruised and cut by ore lumps; Charles
Stanholm, laborer, bruised and cut; Reno
Eskitine, laborer, bruised and crushed. A moving
train ran into a standing train, throwing the
workmen into ore pockets and covering them with
ore. Within a minute several hundred workmen
were on the scene, wildly digging into the
pockets. All the ambulances in the city and a
dozen doctors were summoned. The injured were
removed to a hospital, which the dead were put
in a switchhouse.
The Stevens Point Journal, Stevens Point,
WI 9 Aug 1913
Transcribed by Mary
Saggio. Thank you Mary!
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