Louis E. HOLLANDER

HOLLANDER, OSBORNE, KEITH, CROSS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/27/2013 at 20:30:52

May 11, 1857 -- February 18, 1898

Eagle Grove Items

Last Friday night at Hubbard occurred one of the worst wrecks the Northwestern has ever had. No. 23 and No. 26, both double headers crashed together which resulted in the death of Fireman Osborne and Engineer Hollander, both prominent railroad boys of the city. The four engines were all considerably smashed up although neither left the track. Fireman Arthur Keith escaped by jumping through the cab window. The funerals of Mr. Osborne and Mr. Hollander were both held in the Methodist church Sunday after which the remains were laid to rest in the Rose Hill cemetery.

Renwick Times -- Renwick, Iowa
March 3, 1898

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The Webster City Freeman gives the following account of the collision, of double header freight trains on the Northwestern reported in our press, dispatches last evening. Freight trains No. 23 and 26 on the Northwestern railroad collided at Hubbard Thursday night at about ten o'clock. An engineer and fireman were killed and a brakeman badly hurt. Freight train No. 23 is due here at 7:45 p. m. from the south. No. 26 from the north leaves here at 6 p. m. The train from the south was late and the two crews had orders to meet at Hubbard. Both trains were heavy double headers. The train from the south pulled into the station at Hubbard and stood on the main track awaiting the arrival of No. 26. The engineer on the head engine of the train from the north, supposed the switch was turned until it was too late to avert the collision—the train being a heavy one and the track being on considerable of a grade at Hubbard. Fireman Osborn, of Eagle Grove, and Engineer Louis Hollander, both on the second engine from the north, lost their lives. The fireman was killed instantly. The engineer attempted to escape by jumping from the cab, but was caught between the engine and the tender and so badly burned that he died in about thirty minutes after he was taken out of the wreck. The brakeman, who was badly injured, lives at Eagle Grove, and is a brother of Operator Cross, formerly in the employ of the Northwestern.

February 19, 1898
Waterloo Daily Courier - Waterloo, Iowa