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Show 'TRW!' HITS' NEENAIL Wib, Sept. 24. Twelve persons were Instantly killed, one was so sevorely injured that she died la-tor la-tor and three wore dangerously hurt when n fast Chicago &: Northwestern train struck a hayrack loaded with thirty persons. Five other members of the party were badly hurt a"nd nine escaped unharmed. un-harmed. The party was returning from a wedding anniversary at the farm of Peter Hanson near here. All the victims but two lived in Mena-sha, Mena-sha, Wis. Parents Have Narrow Escape. Among the occupants of the hayrack hay-rack who escaped wero Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brizlnskl and child of two years. They were seatPd In the front haJf of the rack, the mother holding the child In her lap. About half way back in the wagon sat Mary Schwartz-bauer. Schwartz-bauer. The latter wbb hurled about fifty feet and rendered unconscious. When found by rescnorB the Brlzlns-kl Brlzlns-kl child was In her arms unscratch-ed. unscratch-ed. The parents of the child wore Bllghtly hurt. Tried to Cross Ahead of Train. Peter Hanson, driver of the wagon "--- ip nniv onp who was not stunned stun-ned by the collision. A billboard i tu.ed ulm Irom seeing the train until his team had reached the tracks. He whipped up the horses, but the wagon wa-gon was only half way across when the crash came. The train was half an hour bohlnd lime. So fast was It going that the engine was not brought to a stop until un-til it hod gono 800 feet beyond the crossing Almost every person on the wagon was an employe of a woodenware company of Menasha and had gone to the Hanson (farm to attend a wedding wed-ding anniversary They were on tho way back when the collision occurred. occur-red. Six Bodice on Engine Pilot. Six of the dead were found on the engine pIloL Two other3 were hnrl-cd hnrl-cd through the flagman's shanty with such force as to overturn It. One of these, a young woman, though hurled through a wall of the shanty, wa alive when removed, but died later. Another victim was thrown over a barn fifty feet from the railway. During the last eight years nearly two doeen people have, lost their lives at this same crossing. |
