FOUR MEN DIE IN TRAIN WRECK
Omaha Train Runs Into Lemonweir River Near Hustler
Engineer, Fireman and Hobo Die at the Spot - Baggagemen Lee died Tuesday
of Injuries -
Train Piles up in Several Feet of Water - Mail Clerk seriously Cut.
Mauston Star [Mauston, Juneau Co. WI], 05 Sep 1912
Monday morning the Minneapolis - Chicago Limited of the North Western road ran into a washout a few miles south of Camp Douglas, killing a hobo instantly and injuring Engineer Thompson and Firemen Abrahams so that they died shortly afterwards. Baggageman Lee and a number of others were severely injured. It is a miracle that any one in the train escaped as the coaches piled up in the river, which was raging fiercely due to a cloud burst higher up-county. The entire structure for a distance of over forty feet was carried away. The water was very high and covered the tracks and the train men could not see that the rails were gone. A member of the mail service who survived was scratched and cut to a terribly extent. The smoking car was carried many yards below the bridge and half buried by drifting sand, but all the occupants escaped.
A later report received conveys the statement that Baggageman Lee succumbed
to his injuries Tuesday morning raising the total of dead to four. The
mail man is reported as improving rapidly.