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MAIN MNK 13VflT DEPaIIT
ContrnlTJmo 1027 p u
500 a M
715 A M
942 P M
400 A M
MAIN MNE WEST DBPAHT
No 1 Mountain Time 950 a m
a 1142 p m
5 Arrives M P M
13 102 A M
15 1217 a M
IMlTnlAL LINE
No 176 nrrivos Mountain Timo 505 p u
No 175loimrt8 710 A M
Stooping dining and rodiniuR chair cars
eoaU froo on through trains Tickets Bold
and bfiKicfiRo checked to any point in tlio United
Stutos or Canada
For information timo tables maps and tick
ets call on or write D F Iloatottflr Ajrent
McCook Nebraska or L W Waknley Genorul
Pufesougor Agont Omaha Nobrasku
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS
General Manager Holdrege went up
the high lino Tuesday
Conductor Ilugenberger ia oir sick
and Buntloy haa his car
John Mnlono of Ilnvolock visited Mc
Cook friends over Sunday
The main lino local trains were an
nulled ThunUsgiving day
Tho estimate of tlio total damages of
last Sundays wreck is placed at near
520000
Mr and Mrs A E Stevonin of Den
ver are visiting McCook relatives and
friends
The Union Pacific is operating its line
between North Platte and Sydney by
telephone
J II Thoman has changed his head
quarters from McCook to Lincoln that
being his longest lay over point
Mrs R E Benjamin departed Tues
day for Phillipsburg Kunsas where
her husband is employed on the Rock
Island
Conductor Dalton and crew were
called in from Oxford Wednesday to at
tend the official investigation of tho
wreck last Sunday
Louis Meyers has resigned as night
operator at Cambridge and will go to
his homestead in Dakota Louis Mc
Clintock of this place has succeeded
him
R E Love departed Tuesday night
for his homo in Pender this state
where he will visit over Thanksgiving
and be groomsman at tho wedding of
his sister
Mrs E O Scott and baby departed
Sunday for Fresno Cali to be absent
until the first of the year visiting her
parents E O accompanied them as
far as Denver
The wrecking outfit came back from
Red Cloud Wednesday and the engines
1182 and 225 were started for Have
lock Thursday The damage was esti
mated at over 4000 on the two engines
O LDickeson asst supt of trans
portation for the Burlington at Omaha
will go to Chicago to take a position on
Vice President Willards staff and be
in charge of the operating department
Supt C B Rogers of the Wymore
division has resigned to accept the posi
tion of general manager of the St Louis
Brownville Mexico railroad head
quarters in Kingsville Texas The road
is 370 miles long with several branches
W J Krauter is now quite at home in
Denver We hear of him through the
Denver enginemec who say be is now
happy as a lark working at his trade as
machinist Fireman George Gilbert
has arranged for the billing of his goods
from McCook to Akron and will soon
reside here with bis family Akron
Pioneer Press
The whole Akron depot force is quit
ing this week They say it is on the
account that the company will not fur
nish sufficient help to transact the busi
ness that has to be handled here G S
Scott of McCook will relieve Agent
Tohrson temporary C T Glen of
Nemaha Neb will relieve the third
trick operator Mr Fergusou and Jack
Gilmore is relieved by Mr Boyd Ak
ron Pioneer Press
Card of Thanks
Our hearts are full of gratitude to all
for sympathy and assistance after the
sad death of our beloved brother John
W Bartholoma especially to the broth
erhood for tributes and willing attention
and helpfulness
Jacob Bartholoma
HENRy Bartholoma
George Bartholoma
Peter Bartholoma
Emma Bartholoma
Mrs Kate Miller
David Miller
Mr and Mrs Peter Trout
Card of Thanks
For willing assistance and for every
kindness and expression of sympathy
since the sad and tragic death of our be
loved son and brother we are all truly
grateful and in a special measure to
the members of the B of L F E
for their beautiful floral tribute and as
sistance Signed
Mr and Mr Samuel Snoke
Mrs E M Loomis
Mrs C G Phillips
Donald Snoke
New Church at Marlon
Tuesday of this week a Congrega
tional church was organized at Marion
this county with an initial
A council of recognition
was held Services are held every other
Sunday by the Danbury pastor
BARTLEY
Mr and Mrs Albert Ball wore in at
tendance Tuesday evening to a grand
wedding of Miss Julia Brown cousin of
Mrs Balls at tho homo of tho brides
parents Mr and Mrs Alec Brown near
Cambridge Tho festivities wore in full
blast from Tuesday forenoon until Wed
nesday morning It was a gay and
happy timo for every ono present
Tho Masonic fraternity have install
ed a line electric machine nnd hereafter
will use electricity as inotivo power in
conducting the goat around the hall
Section Boss Henry Butherus told
sovoral dozen eggs Tuosday for 30c per
and uays he has about made up his
mind ro lot Jim Hill take the blamed
old railrond nnd ho will devote his tune
as boss chicken fancier
Mr and Mr J B Killer of Indianola
spout Sunday in Bartloy guests of Mr
and Mrs II L Brown
G W Jones hus just put up a good
house for his auto and arranged it as a
hospital for injured vehicles a com
petent auto surgeon will be in attend
ance at all times
Mr Percy Catlett has so far recovered
from his long siege of typhoid fever
that he has been removed to his own
home Wo all rejoice in his convales
cencu nnd hope for his speedy and
complete recovery
Mrs Flint has been on the sick list
since Saturday evening
Thanksgiving turkey at the new hotel
Thursday and every thing that goes
with it to make the finest dinner over
served in Bartley was what Mr Stebr
the proprietor set up for his guests
Mr Ballah banker of Cambridge
was a Bartloy business visitor Tuesday
E E Smith is having a first class ice
house put in for the Shoemaker meat
market We are justly proud of our
meat market which we believe the best
in Southwestern Nebraska
Editor Ethertcn of the Inter Oceaa
iudulged his gastronomic tastes Thurs
day feasting on a nice fat roasted goose
and all night thereafter his dreams were
realistic of being in attendance at a base
ball tournament where all the scores
and all the yells were goose eggs His
good wife was obliged to call him down
several times from his wild goose night
mare
Prof Gallatin was too busy to harvest
his potatoes until last week when he
found many of them badly affected with
chill blains
INDIANOLA
A light snow fell hero Wednesday
morning
Charley Allen left Thursday evening
for his homo in Fairbury
Frank Forester spent Sunday in Mc
Cook
Cal Rollins spent Sunday at Indian
ola
Mabel Irving and Lucy Brown were
McCook visitors Sunday
Cecil Matthews of Bartley was in town
the fore part of the week
Charley Thompson was a McCook
visitor Monday
Alex Brown of Drnbury was an In
dianola business visitor Monday
Clarence Ida and Clarissa Dolan
came in on No 12 Sunday morning
from Los Angeles California to visit
their brother Will
Ernest Dodd was in Bartley Sunday
on a pleasure trip
Floyd Cochran and Charley Rimer of
Partly were Indianola visitors Sunday
Miss Helen Holiday entertained the
Epworth League at her home last Fri
day evening
J B Rozell and daughter Ruby came
in on No 5 Tuesday night for a short
visit with friends
Miss Florence Moore a sister of Frank
Moore and a deaconess of the West
Wisconsin conference preached Sunday
morning and evening to a very appreci
ative audienceJ
Mart Anderson of Iowa is here visit
ing the McWilliams family
R F D N01
D W Colson of McCook was in this
vicinity first of week on business
Jacob Fiechtner left yesterday for
Sedgwick Colorado where he will work
during the winter
Mrs W N Rodgers visited her son
John at Beatrice recently he being
sick
Miss Hannah Johnson and Frank
Denton both of the city visited at the
Dudek farm Sunday Miss Emma
Johnson returned to McCook after a
stay of a few weeks on the farm
Albert Ebert is in Hastings assisting
in building a Seventh Day Adventist
church there
Sam Hughes and some neighbors
hauled out lumber for a new house for
his parents recently
BOX ELDER
I H Harrison is very sick
Mr and Mrs C C Hauxwell called
on Mr and Mrs I H Harrison Tues
day afternoon
Mrs D B Doyle and Mrs Evert
Rutledge went to Maywood Monday
and will spend Thanksgiving with their
parents
Grandpa and Mrs T M Campbell
visited with Mr and Mr J L Camp
bell of Osborn one day last week
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DISASTROUS WRECK AT RED CLOUD
Two Burlington Freights Meet Head on in a Dense Fog
Sunday Morning at 655
JOHN BARTHOLOMA AND GEORGE SNOKE KILLED
Trains Come Together on Curve and the Result Is One of the Worst
Wrecks on the McCook Division in Years in
Loss of Life and Property
Sunday morning while our people were peacefully sleeping or
just arising from their couches two Burlington trains collided at the
west end of the city stock yards at 655 doing great damage and
killing two men and injuring one
THE CAUSE
The morning was very foggy and it was almost impossible to see
a rod ahead of one No 13 the Burlington flyer was due in Red
Cloud at 700 oclock and No 63 a west bound freight was made
up and was in the west end of the yard limits trying to make a
siding when an extra stock train from the west due here it was
first reported at 850 and afterwards at 715 arrived at the yard
limit at 655 and caught 63 just ready to move back and plunged
into her full tilt without a moments warning
THE COLLISION
was heard all over the city and in a short space of time hundreds
of people on foot and in vehicles and city physicians were hurrying
to the scene of the disaster one that will be remembered for many
days by those who saw the ruin and the mangled remains of the
brave men who stood at the throttle and met death without
flinching It was a scene circulated to unnerve the strongest man
who was hardened to such scenes There one of the ponderous
engines careened upon its side and underneath two men Engineer
John W Bartholoma and Fireman George Snoke both of McCook
lay pinned beneath dead their bodies mangled beyond recognition
while willing hands worked for hours to release the bodies which
was finally accomplished and then were turned over to Undertakers
Amack Chaney and taken to their morgue and prepared for ship
ment to McCook
JOHN LICHTENBERGER
a brakeman was in the cab of the extra and when the collision
took place he was thrown from the cab into a barbed wire fence and
his ankle broken This comprised the injured except slight injuries
to Fireman James Henderson of No 63
THE WRECK
was a bad one The trains came together just beyond the yard
limits on a big curve where there was a heavy fill and the impact
was so great that the engine 1225 pulling the extra from the west
was thrown from the track as it struck 1 182 63s engine and was
overturned and fell almost bottom side up killing the two men as
she went over Train 63 was standing still and the force of the
collision was so great that five cars the tender and engine were
badly wrecked and three cars and the engine on the stock extra
were reduced to kindling wood
THE WRECKING TRAIN
was ordered from McCook and reached here about 1 130 and the
work of clearing the track was commenced in earnest and was
finally finished at 540 p m so that trains could go over the track
THE EXCITEMENT
The excitement was intense and more than 3000 people visited
the wreck coming from Kansas and Nebraska towns for a radius of
20 miles and most of them remained all day
at
THE DEAD ENGINEER
was the brother of Mrs Phillip Trout wife of Roadmaster Trout
who resides in this city and the blow to her was severe coming up
on her in such a manner and her many friends in Red Cloud ex
tend to her their sympathy in her hour of trouble
Both of the killed were single men and resided at McCook
no 63s CREW
comprising Engineer Roy E French and Fireman John Henderson
narrowly escaped by jumping out of the cab windows just as the
extra engine plowed into them They were not seriously injured
but escaped death by a very narrow margin Young Henderson in
jumping through the cab window fell upon his face and was
scratched slightly but otherwise he was unscathed
THE PASSENGER TRAINS
13 and 16 were sent around by the Hastings route but 15 went
west over a clear track at Sio p m and a stock extra reached
Red Cloud at 600 p m and traffic was opened up and trains
running as usual at that hour
THE CORONER
Coroner Hall was notified and viewed the bodies and the wreck
and is holding his inquiry today
NO BLAME
could be attached to either crew as both were in the right- and had
it not been for the dense fog prevailing the accident could not have
happened The stock extra was making Red Cloud to get out of
the way of the Burlington flyer No 13 and No 63 was getting on
to the side track for the purpose of getting of the way of both trains
and hence no blame could be attached to either crew
MUCH PRAISE
should be extended the willing workers who rescued the dead and
to the hard work done by the railroad boys who worked like Trojans
to clear up the wreckage
A number of cattle were also killed by the collision on train 63
Conductor Dalton was in charge of 63 and Conductor Martin was
on the wrecked stock train Red Clond Commercial Advertiser
The body of the late Engineer John W Bartholoma was taken
to Culbertson Tuesday for burial Many railroad men including
a large representation of brotherhood men attended the funeral
from this city Services were held in the Presbyterian church of
that city sermons being delivered in both German and English
languages
The remains of Fireman George Snoke were brought here Mon
day on 13 and were buried in Riverview cemetery from the Metho
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dist church the same afternoon Rew Carman conducting the ser
vices which drew a large sympathizing audience The brother
hood attended in a body There were several handsome floral
tributes The presence of the parents of the deceased the father
a helpless paralytic added to the deep pathos of the services
Both of the victims of this sad affair were oung unmarried men
of fine character and highly esteemed inside and without railroad
circles Their tragic deaths have cast a gloom over many hearts
Very tender and genuine sympathy and condolence go out to the
bereaved and sorrowing relatives
OBITUARV
George Geraldus Snoke was born in Rushville 111 March 3
1869 Died at Red Cloud Neb November 22 190S He leaves
an afflicted father and mother who live in Hayes county a brother
Donald Snoke a Burlington fireman two sisters Mrs C G
Phillips of our city and Mrs E M Loomis
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