Milwaukee Junction Train Wreck - Detroit, Michigan
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N 42° 22.482 W 083° 03.577
17T E 330428 N 4693434
On July 20, 1900 the train carrying the Buffalo Bill Wild west show crashed here, Killing one and injuring nine.
Waymark Code: WM84H3
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 01/26/2010
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The artice from the New York Times says:
"DETROIT, July 20 -- Section 1 of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show train collided with a freight train near Milwaukee Junction shortly before daybreak to-day, and a show employes' sleeping car, containing some forty sleeping inmates, was smashed. One man is dead, and nine others are in Detroit hospitals suffering from more or less serious injuries.
DEAD
Sullivan, Edward aged thirty-seven of Bridgeport Conn, porter of the canvas car; died from internal hemmorage after reaching the hospital.
INJURED
Burkholder, A. J. Bradford Penn; crushed and injured seriously internally. back and leg cut by window glass. recovery hoped for
BURTON, Henry West Chester Penn; knee cu and bruised about back.
CUSICK, John Pittston Penn; ankle sprained, right side and leg bruised.
EASTMAN, Henry Rochester; One of processes of spine broken off, spinal cord as yet unaffected.
GILMORE, William Oskaloosa Iowa; Left shoulder and arm bruised, skin torn from right heel.
HUNT, George Waterbury Conn; contusions of both legs
KELLY, Thomas 111 North Elliot Place Brooklyn NY; Shoulder Bruised
McCann Joseph 66 Chambers Street New York; Contusion of right hand, left eye cut
MIX, Noyes New Haven Conn; slightly injured in chest, hand sprained.
The Wild West company gave it's exhibition at Ypsilanti Michigan on Saturday, and shows at Pontiac tomorrow. At the time of the collision the train, consisting of twenty wagon and stock cars, four of the shows sleeping cars, and a Grand Trunk caboose was being transferred from the Michigan Central to the Detroit, Grand Haven, and Milwaukee road. The train was being pushed backward from the "Y" at the Milwaukee Junction, when it was struck by an outgoung Grand Trunk freight train. The caboose was jammed into and forced ontop of the shows employee sleeper, No. 56, which was filled with sleeping tent and canves men.
When the uninjured men had recovered from the shock, the wrecked sleeper was chopped open, and the injured gradually taken out. The car was a complete wreck excepting at one end."
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