Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1902 — DEATH ON EXCURSION TRAIN [ARTICLE]

DEATH ON EXCURSION TRAIN

One Man Killed, Three Fatally Hurt and Forty Seriously Wounded. One man was killed, three probably fatally injured and over forty others more or less seriously hurt by the wreck at Black river of a Detroit and Mackinaw excursion train carrying over 500 people. The train, which was under the auspices of the German Aid society of Alpena, Mich., was made up of an engine and twelve coaches. The killed: August Grosinski. Seriously injured: John McCarthy, Ernst Legatski, Jacob Mondorff, Otto Knowsky, Louis Peppier, George Boyne, Carl Beyer, P. J. Goldsmith, Ernest Des Jardins, Joseph Swallow, Thomas Connors, Christian Wolff, Jerry Sherrette, John Beck, J. C. Roison, Sylvester Klebba, Charles McDonald, Mrs. Charles McDonald. At Black River the tender jumped the track, and when Engineer Hopper set the air brakes the sudden stop threw the first three coaches into the ditch. The first car was cut in two, and it was in this coach that Grosinski met his death. The escape from death of others was miraculous. Grosinski’s little son occupied the same seat with him, but was uninjured.