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BRAINERD, MINowlayofingion▼o-■ireHi-byec-ndretchft44it*lOAccident on a Lo?jnn? Road. Quite ao accident occurred on Cross Lake loir^infir road on SatuiDth«*dollthednhandlivecom thelast by which nineteen cars and one engine are a total wreck and a brake-man was so badly injured that he will probably die. As near as we can loBrn the train crew going up the line j {{,'!nd roce'ved orders to meet the down | for train, which was loaded and on whichFred Stilliugs was engineer, at Trout I a. j lake, but the crew coming down knew dun ot no*hing about the meeting poiut, ha?- MidI ® m-i~ A0D I mg not been informed of it, and as there is no telegraph line had no I 8*£‘ means of knowing but what the track was clear. The trains came together j lt;'»M‘ at that poiut with a terrible crash and | in ■procerwivirtimorlmx (. i the above result. The trainmen all oo i.1 I jumped and escaped injury but one. J1.™•I I ^ /a t 4 l»/\ i in l%n/ilr a nrv in ^ ^• A■1 | reversed his entriue, pulled the throtf |411 tie open and dropped off, the engine I ty hi starting down the track with three I Jo iL! care and run back to headquar-1' ters when one of the cars jumped the I track and htopf»ed the further pro- Jgress which would have resulted in J ,,tt e the engine's running pfT the tracku into Cross lake in ‘200 feet mow. The I udam air e of the smash up is estimated. • a* I10,«00._____DelThe Blink Crook. ^. | The announcement of the coming m«. lt;i
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Brainerd Dispatch
Brainerd, Minnesota, US
Fri, May 18, 1894
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