Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1906 — SAD XMAS FOR MANY [ARTICLE]

SAD XMAS FOR MANY

Railway Accident Kills Nine Passengers En Route on a Christmas Holiday. St. Paul, Dec. 24. —Nine persons are known to be dead, six others are fatally Injured, and at least twenty-five others were badly hurt In the wreck of an east-bound train on the Minneapolis, St Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railroad at Enderlln, N. D. The train wrecked was. the accommodation train which hu4s/£rom Moose Jaw, Sask., to St. Paul. The engineer was running at high speed in an endeavor to make up lost time. At Enderlln a switch engine was shifting a string of box cars to a side track. The cars did not clear the main track and the passenger engine collided head-on with the switch engine. The train was heavily loaded with people going to their homes in the east to spend the holidays. Nine dead bodies were taken out and laid beside the track, while the injured were taken in hastily Improvised ambulances to the hospital and when that Institution had all that It could possibly accommodate the rest of the injured were cared for in the hotels. The list of those dead Is as follows: Charles Backus, Bergen, N. D.; H. J. Volkerlng, Anamoose, N. D., en route to visit bis mother at Osceola, Wls.; John Satterburg, Anamoose, N. D.; Tony Gleen, Volva, N, D.; D. J. Berresford, Medicine Hat, Alberta; 11. Rosenbaum, Volva, N. D.; W. J. Danielson, Sheldon. Minn.; A. O. Anderson, Starbuck, Minn.; Nels Hansen Kenmare, N. D.