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Mounds, IL Train Wreck, Sept 1900

Posted December 7th, 2008 by June

Nine Are Killed

Special Car of Duncan Clark’s Female Minstrel Troupe Wrecked at Mounds, Illinois.

One Male Victim

A Number of Seriously Injured-Patrick Patterson Was Hurled From the Car and Struck the Switch Stand-His Wife Horrible Injured, a Piece of Wood Driven Through Her Shoulders.

Memphis, Sept. 12.-A special to the Commercial-Appeal from Cairo, Ill., says; The special car of Duncan Clark’s female minstrel troupe was wrecked at Mounds this afternoon, and of sixteen occupants nine are now dead and six others are seriously injured, some of them perhaps fatally. The dead are:

ALICE WILIAMS, OLLI ENTRIGHT, ETTA CLARK PATTERSON, PATRICK PATTERSON, MARGARITA COMPELLA, ANNA BELL, BETTY RUBY, KITTY HOWARD, FAITH HAMILTON.

Seriously Injured: Ettie Foy Elliot, may Martin, Otis Well, Duncan Clark.

The injured are all in the hospital here. Duncan Clark, the manager, will probably recover.

Patrick Patterson, the only man who was killed, was the cook. He was hurled from the car and struck the switch stand. Etta Clark Patterson, his wife, was horribly injured, a large piece of wood being driven through her right shoulder.

Butte Weekly Miner, Butte, MT 13 Sept 1900
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