Mr. W. E. Osborne (?-1898)

OSBORNE

Posted By: Alan Nicholson
Date: 3/28/2014 at 23:43:28

Paullina Times, 24 Feb 1898, p. 3

A topic of general conversation about town this week was the wrecking of two trains and killing of two young men well known here, Thursday evening of last week. Two double-headed freight trains ran into each other at Hubbard, Iowa on the Northwestern road. The east bound train was at a standstill. Fireman W. E. Osborne was crowded against the boiler and burned to death. Engineer Lewis Hollander suffered the same fate and lived but a few minutes after being taken from the wreck. Brakeman Cross was severely injured but will live. A signal light mistaken for a switch light was the cause.

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Paullina Times, 31 Mar 1898, p. 3

Mrs. Osborne of Sutherland, wife of the fireman who was killed recently in the Hubbard wreck, received from the C. & N. W. railway company $4,800 in cash last week, including funeral expenses, etc.