Freight Train, First 62, wrecked

HOWARD

Posted By: Kelli Wilslef (email)
Date: 2/26/2011 at 15:24:10

Eastbound Freight Train Wrecked
The Excelsior
July 26, 1912
SABULA GAZETTE—

An eastbound freight train, First 62, was badly wrecked at the approach of the Y just north of the Big Spring about 9:30 o’clock Wednesday night. The wreck was caused by one of the trucks on a stock car, the fifth from the engine, breaking in some manner and that car with thirteen of those following, jumped the track and were more or less badly smashed and piled in confusion all over the three tracks. The wrecker was summoned from Savanna and all the section crews within a radius of twelve miles called out and by six o’clock Thursday morning traffic was returned, although the work of clearing the wreck still continues. Nineteen hogs and one calf were killed and there is more stock missing, so of the hogs having swam out into the lake, where they probably became mired and died among the reeds and rushes. Some of the cattle were found several miles out in the country and up to Thursday night over 250 hogs and a number of cattle had been rounded up and placed in the stock yards here. The train was in charge of conductor Sam Howard, but there is no blame attached to the train crew as the wreck was no doubt due to some breakage in the trucks that occurred between stations and of which the crew had no means of realizing until the wreck occurred.