Butte, MT train wreck, Jan 1897
Posted February 26th, 2009 by Tim Taugher
TWO MEN KILLED
And Two Doctors, Going as Relief, Badly Hurt.
Special to The Journal.
Butte, Mont., Jan. 11. - P. H. Hisson and James O'Connell of St. Paul, bridge men on the Great Northern, were instantly killed by being thrown from a high trestle, about two miles east of this city. Dr. Freund and Superintendent Burns, of the Montana Central, while going to the scene of the accident, sustained serious injuries by a head-end collision between their special and a switch engine. Dr. Freund was badly cut about the head and was removed to a hospital. Hisson, one of the dead bridge men, has a wife and several children living in St. Paul.
The Minneapolis Journal, Minneapolis, MN 11 Jan 1897
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Transcribed by Tim Taugher. Thanks, Tim!
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