Date
|
Train Accident
|
| 1900 - Aug. 10 |
A passenger train
and an engine collide killing trainmen E. P. Slater & Augie
Abendroth |
| 1901 - Aug. 24 |
Runaway locomotive
crashes into the P. Hohendale Canning Co. in Janesville |
| 1901 - Dec. 27 |
Arthur Nash is
run over & killed by a train he was helping to switch in
a city train yard |
| 1903 - Jan. 6 |
Clarence Thomas
of Janesville is killed by train cars at Milwaukee |
| 1903 - March 23 |
Leo Wright killed
in an accident at the Janesville yards |
| 1903 - April 14 |
Herman Knowles
(engineer from Janesville) dies in accident at Salem |
| 1903 - Aug. 3 |
Jack Rooney (bareback
rider for the Forebaugh/Fish Wild West Show) killed in accident
in Janesville |
| 1903 - Dec. 5 |
"Peg"
Connors dies in accident near St. Paul line roundhouse, Janesville |
| 1904 - July 16 |
Edward Broderick
(switchman) killed, Janesville |
| 1904 - July 18 |
Mr. & Mrs.
Joseph Green died when buggy hit by train, south side of Janesville |
| 1904 - Dec. 16 |
Robert Brown (machinist)
killed by passenger train, Janesville |
| 1905 - March 12 |
John Myrne (switchman)
killed at Five Points, Janesville |
| 1905 - July 12 |
Annie Piske killed
near downtown Janesville |
| 1905 - Sept. 20 |
Knute Sanderson
killed near downtown Janesville |
| 1906 - Feb.14 |
Head-on train collision
near Afton; 3 killed; 6 injured |
| 1906 - May 21 |
William Lemke killed,
Janesville |
| 1907 - March 8 |
Unknown man from
River Falls, WI, killed by locomotive near Janesville depot |
| 1907 - March 21 |
John W. Cowan (RR
detective) shot in attempted trail derailment |
| 1907 - March 29 |
John Eherlinger
killed near Hanover |
| 1907 - April 16 |
Levi Armstrong
killed near brewery in Janesville |
| 1907 - Sept. 20 |
Norwester engine
train wreck in Milton Junction |
| 1907 - Nov. 16 |
Alfred Lohrman
(14), killed near surgar factory |
| 1907 - Dec. |
Locomotive No. 1313
collides with a livestock train |
| 1908 - Feb. 5 |
Locomotive No.
1313 backs into turntable pit |
| 1908 - July 31 |
Ida Fox (RR bookkeeper)
killed in Janesville |
| 1908 - Aug. 16 |
Harry J. Moore
(lamptender, Janesville Electric Co.) killed by interurban train
on S. Franklin St., Janesville |
| 1908 - Nov. 15 |
Archilius Pappadimitrou
killed, Janesville |
| 1908 - Dec. 9 |
B. C. Astin hit
by train, Janesville; dies Dec. 10 at Mercy Hospital |
| 1909 |
Train wreck 100
yds. from Dougan's Farm near Beloit |
| 1909 - March 29 |
Floyd Lash (MI
student & RR employee) killed by locomotive |
| 1909 - June 5 |
William Bradley
(Rockford, IL) loses foot uner interurban train on S. Jackson
St., Janesville; later dies (probably from gangrene) |
| 1910 - Feb. 7 |
William Shadel
near Milton Junction |
| 1913 - Sept. 13 |
Louis Belden killed
at C&NW passenger depot |
| 1919 - Dec. 15 |
C&NW train
crashed into a Janesville streetcar; 21 residents of the city
injured |
