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WAUPACA REPUBLICAN POST Thursday, August 26, 1909 RAILWAY WRECK AT SHERIDAN Two Heavy Freight Trains Meet in
Wednesday morning as freight train No. 32 from the north bore down the
grade west of Sheridan under orders to side track at Sheridan to allow freight
train 29, west bound, to pass, Engineer Zimmermann found it impossible to stop
his very heavy train before reaching the switch. The
consequence was a head-on collision of the two heavy freight trains on the main
track. The train crew on No. 29 all
jumped in time to escape injury but Engineer Zimmermann sustained a fracture of
his left leg in jumping from his engine after he saw that he could not avert
the accident. A
wrecking train from Fond du Lac and one from Abbotsford were hastened to the
scene, and after a delay of five or six hours, passenger trains were again
running. The two
freight engines sustained only moderate damage and about ten freight cars in
the two trains were ditched. |