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Show TRAIN WRECK I KILLS SEEN I Mail Clerk Pinned Un uH der Car for Hours jBB Dies WTien Rescued ! Ml l Shawano. Wis., Sept. 2. Seven per- Bfl sous. Including nearly the entire train ll crowr were killed and ten injured, H several seriously, early yesterday HH whon a fast sleeping car " train of H the Chicago & Northwestern railroad H was ditched in a washout caused by Hl a cloudburst five miles southwest of Hl this SH General Manager W. C. Cantlllon of Bl the lailroad was on the train In his IHH private car with his family and a Wl party of friends, but all escaped in- HH The train was wrecked in a bleak part of the northern woods and It was Hl hourB before help could arrive. Mean- ftl while Alex Schoels, a mall clerk, waa B pinioned under the wreckage, while Kl every moment it was feared that fire Hl would start In the debris. HH Mr. Cantlllon took personal charge fll of the relief work. Bl The Dead. , 11 C. BUCHIN, conductor, Green Bay. 'HH GEORGE MARKS, brakeman, Green HH Bay. M CARROLL BENNETT, baggageman, IH Green Bay. Bl JOHN JONES, engineer, Green Bay. 'BV S. G. SHELDON, express messen- lIKV ger, Green Bay. HBH W. S. CALKINS, passenger, Shawa- ALEX SCHOELS, mail, clork, Clin- H tinvllle; both legs badly 'cut, bruised about body; died later. H Injured. ' H Glen Davoy, shortstop Wausac jH basoball team; arm injured; may i have to bo amputated. fl William Kerwln, pitcher, skull pro- M hably fractured. j jH Manager Frank M,aloye of Wausau i ball team, bruised. ' Walter Deramer, right fielder, bruis- i M ed. M John Brown, second baseman, bruis- tl Umpire Frank Murphy, slightly llH bruised. mI Fireman Prank Orgeman, Green lll Bay, scalded. Il Many others were slightly injuied. I -. .tAlCPalaeo Cars. ' IjH Tho train waa. a "palacp car train, ( consisting almost entirely of sleeping H cars en route back (o Chicago aud the . ;H south with returning vacationists from I the noithern woods. There wero H eight sleepers on the train, but only ' IH one was ditched, and the passengers IH there suffered only slight injuries. IH Practically every injured person was IH a passenger in the smoking car at the rH neati oi me train, or one oi me trew h on duty at the head of the train. fH The Wausau state baseball league H baseball team suffered, four or its "H membcis being hurt, one, the club "H shortstop, losing an arm, while Pitch- "H er Kerwin may never he able to play ( j"H ball again H Schoels was pinned under the de- ll bris five hours. He lived until late tM yesterday afternoon. ' """""H oo HH |