Waukesha, Wisconsin Train Wreck
August 4, 1913
KILLED ON THE SOO
Fireman Michael Crowley Meets Death at
Waukesha
One man was killed and another injured in a
headon collision between freight No. 23, west
bound, and a switch engine on the Soo line about
1000 yards from the Northwestern railroad
crossing near Waukesha, at 9:30 o'clock Tuesday
morning.
Michael Crowley,
who was firing on the switch engine, was killed
and Otto Toll,
engineer on the same locomotive, suffered a
broken leg and his head was also cut.
Crowley was 39 years old, lived at Waukesha, and
leaves a large family. Engineer Toll lives
at North Fond du Lac.
The freight train was in charge of
Conductor Benedict.
Engineer Charles Hill
and Fireman
Oscar Joseph jumped and escaped
injury.
The switch engine was pushing one car and
pulling several others at the time of the
accident. The car ahead of the engine
served as a cushion, when the crash came, and
although the car was demolished neither the
switch engine nor the one attached to the
freight left the track. Six cars, which
were being pulled by the switch engine, were
derailed.
The Stevens Point Journal, Stevens Point, WI 9 Aug 1913
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