WAUPACA REPUBLICAN POST

Friday, September 23, 1898

 

R’Y SUCCOTASH

 

Cars, Logs, Lumber and Potatoes Piled High

 

 

     Last Monday morning about four o’clock a though freight train of about fifty cars, a good share of them loaded with lumber, ties and pulp wood, with a few cars filled with potatoes, flour, etc., came thundering down the grade in the swamp between Waupaca and Sheridan.  The train pulled apart in some way.  In a few seconds there was a conglomeration of cars, logs, lumber, potatoes, etc. piled as high as a telegraph pole.  The train pulled into the station and two cars came on after them loose and when they struck it ditched four or five more cars down the bank just north of Nelson’s lumber yard.  A wrecking and working crew came down from Stevens Point and had the track cleared between ten and eleven o’clock.  The loss to the company in cars and freight was quite a bad one but the most fortunate thing of all is no one was hurt.