THE COUNTY POST

Thursday, March 22, 1923

 

SOO FREIGHT WRECK NEAR SHERIDAN

 

Fast Freight No. 24, East-Bound Breaks in Two at Sheridan Friday Night With Heavy Losses

 

 

     Soo Line Freight No. 24, east-bound, Friday night, broke in two just west of Sheridan crossing.  The engine and fourteen cars kept the track.  The fifteenth car jumped the track and rolled over and those behind followed the example of the first to roll over and pile up in an almost indistinguishable mass of wreckage.  Fifteen of the wrecked cars contained lumber, six were loaded with bran, one or two with flour and others with miscellaneous freight; shingles, canned peas and the like.

     Wrecking crews from Stevens Point and Fond du Lac worked to save what might be of value.  It is estimated that a loss of 40 per cent of the value of the freight besides the damage to equipment will be borne by the railroad company.  Traffic was delayed ten hours in consequence of the derailment.  This was the scene of a freight wreck some four or five years ago which at the time was said to be the most expensive freight wreck ever experienced by the Soo Line.

     During the past month several derailments on the Soo Line have delayed trains passing through Waupaca according to reports from time to time.