Kilgore, NE Train Wreck, Aug 1908

TWO DIE IN WRECK

STOCKMEN KILLED IN REAR END COLLISION AT KILGORE.

ANOTHER FATALLY INJURED

FOUR VICTIMS IN ACCIDENT AND COLLISION AT KILGORE.

Heavy Freight Crashes Into Caboose of Sheep Train Demolishing It – Bodies of Dead Taken to Valentine.

VALENTINE, Neb. Aug. 30.-- In a rear-end collision on the Northwestern railroad at Kilgore, Neb., this morning at 3 o'clock, two men were killed and one was so badly hurt that he will die. Another was seriously injured. All four victims were stock men from Norwood, Wyo.

The dead:
GEORGE KENNEDY.
FOSTER SPREAS.

Fatally injured:
MALCOMB M. HAWKINS.

Badly hurt:
S. F. BROWER.

Those men were in a caboose of a sheep train east bound when a heavy east bound freight crashed into the rear end of their train, which was then taking the siding at Kilgore. The engine of the freight train was derailed and the caboose was demolished and burned.
MR. HAWKINS was so badly injured that it is not believed he will recover. MR. BROWER had one shoulder crushed, was burned about the hips and legs and received a number of scalp wounds.

The bodies were brought here this morning and placed in the care of Undertaker HORNBY. The injured men were left at the home of MRS. SEARS for care.

An inquest will be held at 10 o'clock today.

Two car loads of sheep were wrecked, many of the sheep being killed.

The Nebraska State Journal Lincoln, Nebraska 1908-08-31
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Researched and Transcribed by Stu Beitler. Thank you, Stu!