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thanks Hol...I'll print these out and, hopefully, be able to match the piece up with my pix....I appreciate your efforts. Pete
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From: Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CB&Q Group <cbq@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 3:27 pm Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: Derailment Photo
Pete and Group:
Here's what the weekly newspaper in Alliance had to say about the explosion: The Alliance Herald
Published Every Thursday
February 20, 1913:
ALLIANCE MEN KILLED
Monster Freight Engine Explodes,
Killing Three Alliance Men.
Entire City Grieved.
ENGINE BROUGHT TO ALLIANCE
A shapeless mass of steel, looking like a huge cannon of war, only many times larger, was brought into the railroad yards at Alliance this morning, loaded on two flat cars. Behind the car followed an odd, gruesome looking arrangement of wheels and the tender of an engine. It was all that remained of the monster freight engine, 5020, that left the Alliance yards Friday noon at the head of a fast through freight, No. 109, and which exploded at 12:05 Saturday morning [February 15], four miles east of Provo, South Dakota, instantly killing “Santa Fe” Johnson, engineer, G.T. Wheeler, fireman, and Lewis Charles Sundstrom, head brakeman.
Dozens of people viewed the wreck of the engine in the railroad yards this morning and a large number of photos were taken. It is almost impossible for the human mind to conceive of the awful force which was expended in tearing the thick steel crown sheet from a hundred steel bolts, tearing off their heads as though they had been matches. The force of the explosion, which was downward and forward, caused the crown sheet, in tearing itself loose from the many bolts which fastened it, to pull the rear end of the monster fire box a distance of several inches. The front end of the boiler, held by large steel bolts, was torn away as though it had been made of paper. Not a vestige of the cab remains around the firebox and all that could be found of it was twisted pieces of steel and charred pieces of wood. The boiler, in its flight of three hundred feet, had nearly stripped itself of the heavy coverings placed over it. The sand dome was full of mud and the front end of the boiler, out from which projected twisted steam pipes and a mass of shapeless steel, had buried itself in the ground when striking. The engine trucks (it was a big eight-wheeler, four big drivers on each side) did not seem to be injured at all excepting where the fastenings had been torn loose when the explosion took place. It appears, from the looks of the wreck, that the first and most intense part of the explosion was around the crown sheet which is surrounding the fire box at the rear of the engine. The crown sheet, which is steel and half an inch thick, was burned and torn.
The bodies of the men were brought to Alliance Sunday morning on 42 and were taken charge of by the different fraternal organizations and relatives.
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“Santa Fe” Johnson
Funeral services were held Sunday morning at the Methodist church, Rev. O.S. Baker officiating. The members of the railroad orders as well as the Masons, of which he was a member, were present in large numbers.
Mr. Johnson was born in Booneville, Missouri, June, 1881. The body was accompanied by Henry Rennau to Ipswich, S.D., where the mother of the deceased lives. His loss is deeply felt by his many friends and his fellow employes on the railroad.
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G.T. Wheeler
The arrangements for the funeral of Fireman G.T. Wheeler were taken care of by Alliance Lodge No. 623, B. of L. F. & E. Rev. Baker, of the Methodist church, conducted the funeral services at the Darling undertaking parlors. B.F. Trenkle accompanied the body to Coldwater, Michigan. R.C. Wheeler, a brother, arrived Monday morning and returned with Mrs. Wheeler, leaving Alliance Tuesday morning. Mr. Wheeler was twenty-seven years of age. He leaves a wife, mother and father, brother and two sisters. The funeral services were held Monday evening. A large number of flowers and a beautiful floral cross were on the casket. A telegram was received yesterday by F.W. Hicks from Mr. Trenkle stating that the party arrived at Coldwater and that short funeral services were held.
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Lewis Charles Sundstrom
Lewis Charles Sundstrom was born in Howard county, Nebraska, February 23, 1885. When still a small boy he, with his parents, move to Sherman county, Nebr., on a farm two miles southeast of Rockville, where he lived until he was married to Miss Eva Blanche Carpenter, of Austin, Nebr., October 17, 1905. His parents then moved to Rockville and he remained on the farm four years. He then moved to Alliance. This was three years ago. He took a position as brakeman on the railroad, which position he held at the time of his death. He leaves to mourn his death a wife, two boys, aged five and three years.
Funeral services were held at the house in Alliance Sunday evening. The house was crowded with friends and members of the trainmen’s orders and the Odd Fellows, who assisted in the services and care of the dead. Rev. F.A. Woten preached the funeral sermon. The body was accompanied to the depot by fifty brother Odd Fellows and the widow and body accompanied to Ravenna by Bro. P.D. Weinel.
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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 16:02:59 -0400 Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Derailment Photo
Thanks Hol, I have never seen the card anywhere else other than my GF's collection..He had some notes on the back of each one. I know there were two cards as you mentioned..You're better off than I am...You have only "misplaced" one...I can't find either one...Some day my heirs are going to have a wonderful time trying to make sense of my "stuff"...I think, though, that's pretty optimistic..It will probably go directly to the dump.
I know Al included both photos, I think, in one of his books, but I don't recall which one...although I "kind of" think I have it....I'm almost as distressed about losing the Lincoln paper article confirming the matter.
Thanks for correcting the record....I'll notify "all concerned" when I find my two cards...I know they are together and will submit them for posting.
Pete
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From: Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CB&Q Group <cbq@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 2:29 pm Subject: RE: [CBQ] Re: Derailment Photo
Pete:
Just for the record, the view that I posted came from Jim Ehernberger, who picked it up at a postcard show in Omaha last weekend. It's a reasonably common postcard, and I've seen it for sale several times, both at shows and on eBay -- but I've never felt the need to pay the price asked as I already have good copies of it and the other postcard view showing the remains of the boiler where it landed. Hol To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:51:37 -0400 Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Derailment Photo
Bill I can figure out a way to get these out...HOWEVER...there is a larger problem...I CAN'T FIND THEM...I know I've got them because a few months ago I "reorganized" my stuff...ie..moved it around..I had sent them to Al Holck several years ago and he returned them to me in a nice little plastic case set up so I could see them both at the same time through the material..Also within that case I placed the notice from the Lincoln paper from IIRC 1993 speaking of funeral services held for the men
Just yesterday while looking for these photos I found a set of color photos that I didn't even know I had and could have used ....and really need for a story I wrote for REMEMBER THE ROCK magazine...I've never been super organized, but now with old age setting in I'm in real trouble
Again HOWEVER...I have not given up and surely will find these photos...The one Hol W. posted I'm sure is one of mine and got to him through Al.
The search will continue.
Pete
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From: William Barber clipperw@gmail.com [CBQ] < CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CB&Q Group < CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tue, Mar 31, 2015 11:49 pm Subject: [CBQ] Re: Derailment Photo
Pete,
If you have a cell phone with a built in camera, you can take a photo of the post card photo and send it to the List via e-mail. If your computer and phone talk to each other, you can transfer the photo to your computer and send it as an e-mail attachment. A scanner is nothing more than a camera with a sable bed that takes a photo of whatever you are copying or scanning. Modern smartphone cameras are amazing.
Bill Barber
Gravois Mills, MO
On Mar 31, 2015, at 3:11 AM,
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