Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1907 — Jasper County People in Wreck. [ARTICLE]

Jasper County People in Wreck.

Squire Charles W. Bussell and sister, Mrs. Mary E. Lowe reached home Sunday night at 11:10 o’clock from a business trip to upper Wisconsin. Sunday morning at about 1 o’clock the passenger train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & Sr. Paul railroad on which they were passengers run full tilt into the rear end of a freight train on the main track between Forest Junction and Hilbert station and about 24 miles from Green Bay. Mr: Bussell aiid sister were in the fifth passenger coach which probably saved them serious injury as all the coaches in front were derailed and passengers in them all more or less injured. As it was Mrswas severely shaken up and ; the Squire got a bad bump on his left knee. The fireman of the passenger train was scalded to death, and the engineer was also very near death when Mr. Bussell left there. The freight rear breakman was instantly killed. He was sleeping in the caboose and it was probably his fault that the wreck occured, as he should have gone back to flag the passenger train. The rear lamps on the freight train were also not lighted. Five freight cars were smashed up and all the passenger coaches considerably damaged. Squire aided in rescuing the imperiled passengers and getting out the dead bodies. It was a frightful wreck and Mr Bussell and Mrs. Lowe consider themselves fortunate to have escaped practically uninjured.