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The
Menominee Range, Iron Mountain, Menominee County,
Michigan, Volume XI, Number
43 [Thursday, January 16, 1890], page 1, column 2
BELATED TRAINS.
A heavy snow storm prevailed in this section last Sunday, following Sunday night
by a brisk gale, which made railroading a difficult undertaking Monday. All
trains were from one to three hours late.
The
Menominee
Range, Iron Mountain, Me nominee County, Michigan, Volume
XI, Number
46 [Thursday, February 6, 1890], page 1, column 3
ENTIRE VILLAGE DESTROYED.
The startling intelligence was received in this city last Monday morning that
the entire village of Stager, the junction of the branches of the C. & N.W.
rail road to Watersmeet and Crystal Falls, respectively, had been destroyed by
fire. The origin of the conflagration is not known, but when discovered it had
gained such fearful headway that the fire department was powerless to combat it,
and the inhabitants fled for their lives. In one short hour the entire village
was a mass of ruins. The total number of buildings destroyed was one -- the C.
& N.W. depot. We understand it will be rebuilt.
The
Current,
Norway, Menominee County, Michigan, Volume
VI, Number 2 [Saturday,
February 15, 1890], page 1, column
--It is generally understood that the M. & N. Ry. will build a
connecting link between Sagola (formerly Holmes Siding) twenty miles north of
Iron Mountain, and Sidnaw. This will give a direct route to Ontonagon.
The
Menominee Range, Iron Mountain, Menominee County, Michigan, Volume XI,
Number
48 February 2O, 1890], page 1, columns 4-5
GOOD RAILROAD NEWS.
We are glad to be able to announce that the Milwaukee & Northern have
decided to build the remaining connection, to make a through line, between
Sidnaw and Iron Mountain. The survey has been completed and as soon as the
profiles and estimates can be completed contractors will be asked to bid for the
work. The McIntosh Bros., who were the contractors for the last work, have
already been up over the line and are ready to put in their bids as soon as the
profiles are finished for the north end of the survey, and should they be the
successful bidders, they will put on a force at each end and push the work to
completion this season. The length of the road will be about 62 miles, and will
be from Sidnaw to Sagola, a station on their line about 12 miles northwest of
Iron Mountain. We are now in hopes that before the end of the year we shall have
direct and daily trains between Ontonagon and Chicago and Milwaukee. The next
move of the company will be to turn their attention to building along the great
mineral range in this county to Houghton, and the survey will be undertaken
shortly. It will start from a point between Greenland and Poristation, and
proceed along the mineral range in this county and Houghton to some point on
Portage Lake. The building of this piece of road will become an absolute
necessity as soon as their main line is finished, and will give the Milwaukee
& Northern the key and control of the trade of the copper district, and from
a very direct line. Already the trade of the two counties is largely with
Milwaukee, Chicago and St. Paul, and the farming districts of Wisconsin and
Minnesota send a large portion of their products to our district. The building
of the line to Hough-
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ton will be a blessing to the people of that county, as it will open up
competition in transportation facilities and give them much cheaper rates for
their products. For the same reason it will be of great benefit to this county,
as the company could not charge the mining companies more than they would at
Houghton. The signs certainly begin to look auspicious for not only Ontonagon but the entire copper district, as cheapening the facilities for
producing copper will ensure a cheap price for the metal, hence an in creased
demand and more mines required to pro duce it. --Ontonagon Miner.
The Menominee Range Iron Mountain, Menominee County, Michigan, Volume
XI, Number 51 [Thurs day, March 20, 18901, page 1, column 2
WRECK ON THE C. & N.W.
As the evening passenger train on the C. & N.W. going west was pulling out
of this city last Monday evening, it collided with a flat car near the Y
that had not been switched far enough on to the siding to permit
the passenger to pass. The flat car, as well as the locomotive and mail car of
the passenger train, was considerably damaged, but fortunately no one was
injured. The train was delayed until about 9 o'clock.
DON'T LIKE IT.
The change of time that went into effect on the M. & N. last Tuesday is not
likely to be popular here whatever may be thought of it else— where. The mail
heretofore received at 10:20 is now received at 2:05 p.m. Heretofore business
men could get their mail about noon time, and it breaks up the day less than to
go for mail in the middle or (sic - of] the afternoon. If the train arriving at
7 a.m. brought the mail it would be all right, but as it is, it is a poor
change.
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With the passage of the bill creating Dickinson County, Michigan, out of the
counties of Menominee, Iron and Marquette, The Menominee Range, Iron
Mountain's newspaper, also changed its name, becoming The Iron Range.
Governor Edwin B. Winans signed Bill No. 89, creating Michigan's eighty-third
county, on Thursday, May 21, 1891, and that same day the newspaper's name was
changed. Dickinson County began operating as a political entity on October 1,
1891. The railroad time tables above and on the next page bear the same date,
but the heading denotes the newspaper's new name.
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The Iron Range
, Iron Mountain, Menominee
County, Michigan, Volume XIII, Number 24 [Thursday, June 25, 1891], page 5, column 3
THE E., I.M. & W. ROAD TO BE COMPLETED.
The Escanaba, Iron Mountain & Western railroad, formerly owned by
the Schlesinger Syndicate but which recently composed of Chicago &
Northwestern stock holders, is to be completed and put in shape for
opera ting as soon as men and money can do it. An excavator will be
put into service on the new line to load gravel for ballasting the
road-bed and a number of men will be employed in surfacing the track.
Those in charge of the work are instructed to make every effort to
rush the job, and present indications go to show that the management
desires to have the road ready for operation as soon as possible.
Two dredges have been working from daylight to
dark for the past month about the ore dock, and that
portion of the work is well under way.
The Mirror is informed by "one of those who knows" that ore
will be dumped into the new dock within the next two weeks, and much
to the gratification of our people who invested money in North
Escanaba (now the 7th ward of our city). Business beyond a shadow of
doubt will commence to hum on the new dock not later than July 1st.
Those who had the good sense to hold on to their property, will in all
probability realize fair returns on the money invested. --Mirror.
The Iron Range, Iron Mountain, Menominee County, Michigan,
Volume XIII, Number 16 F Thursday, July 9,18911, page 1, column 5
N. LAWRENCE and son attempted to steal a ride on the H. & N.
freight going north early Tuesday morning, and were unceremoniously
bounced by Conductor Allen and his train men. The son gathered
together a crowd of tough associates and went to the depot about 10 in
the evening, when Conductor Allen's train returns, and
attempted to
start a row but the "kids" proved to be nothing more
than a lot of the loud mouthed, saucy, cowardly sort and backed off
when one of the train men bristled up to them. They were armed,
however, and had a row started would very likely have done some
mischief. They should be fined first for carrying concealed weapons
and then soundly spanked. A police man in that neighborhood would not
have been out of place.
The Iron Range, Iron Mountain, Menominee County,
Michigan, Volume XIII, Number 17 [Thursday, July 16,1891), page 1, column 4
BUFFET sleeping cars will be run on the M. &
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railroad beginning next Monday. This will prove another convenience to the
traveling public, with whom this road is already so popular. Travelers starting
out in the evening or early in the morning can secure a light lunch before
retiring.
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ON Saturday last a twelve-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Cleutier was
almost instantly killed by an accident which befell him on the road near
"B" shaft house at the Chapin. It seems that a team of horses was
drawing a couple of tram cars, one of them being fastened behind the other. Near
B shaft the road is raised several feet in order to pass over a tramway and
while going over this elevation the boy, who was sitting on the second car, lost
his balance and fell between the two. The team was walking at a rapid pace and
as the driver was not aware that the boy had fallen he drove along and two of
the car wheels ran between the boy's legs and upon his body, along the spine and
over his head. The result was that the body was terribly mangled and the skull
crushed. A physician was called at once but nothing could be done to save the
boy's life and he died within a few moments after the accident occurred.
The
Iron Range , Iron Mountain, Menominee County,
Michigan, Volume XIII, Number 19
[Thursday, July 30, 1891], page 8,
column I
ABE RICHARDS and Bernhard Reynolds, two boys of thirteen years of age,
loosened the brakes on a lot of empty ore cars on the M. & N. side track
north of Fleshiem street last Tuesday evening, and let them run down against a
dwelling that stands at the end of the track, doing several hundred dollars
worth of damage to the house and ore cars. A.B. BeDell, state agent of charities
and reforms, took Richards to the reform school this morning, where it is hoped
in the next three years he will learn better manners. Reynolds has not yet been
sentenced.
The
Iron Range , Iron Mountain, Menominee County,
Michigan, Volume XIII, Number 20
[Thursday, August 6, 1891], page 1, column
5
ROBERT BRENNAN, a brakeman on the M. & N., was killed at Sagola
yesterday. His relatives reside in the lower part of the state.
...
HOOSE & GAGE have the contract for breaking the ground on which will be
located the new round house at the Y and they are now at work on the job.
Material for the house is arriving and the work on the structure will be
commenced very soon.
The
Iron Range , Iron Mountain, Menominee County,
Michigan, Volume XIII, Number 26
[Thursday, September 17, 1891], page 1,
column 2
THE turn-table to be used for the round house at Antoine arrived last
week and will be placed in position very soon now as the work is progressing
rapidly.
The
Iron Range , Iron Mountain, Menominee County,
Michigan, Volume XIII, Number 27
[Thursday, September 24, 1891], page
1, column 5
THE C. & N.W. round house at Antoine is assuming large proportions
and will be inclosed this week. The house will contain four stalls and is so
arranged that its capaciry [sic - capacity] may be increased at any time. The
turn table is in place and all other work is progressing very satisfactorily.
...
PROBABLY the largest number of loaded cars drawn by one switch engine was on
Tuesday morning when the M. & N. switch engine No. 1 brought fifty-three
loaded cars from the Hamilton and Ludington mines. The weight of the load was
something over 1166 tons and the engine pulled the train without much
difficulty.
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The Map of the Chicago & North—Western Railway System [detail, enlarged]
below appeared in The City of Escanaba, Michigan, U.S.A.: "The Iron Port
of the World" by Walter R. Nursey, Escanaba, Michigan: Lew A. Gates,
1890]
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The
Iron Range , Iron Mountain,
Menominee County, Michigan, Volume XIII, Number
27[Thursday, September 24, 1891], page 1, column 6
FEW people have any idea of the amount of responsibility that rests
upon the C. & N.W. train dispatchers at Antoine. Our reporter visited their
office on Saturday and was given an insight into the duties they are called
upon to perform. In this office are three operators, S.J. Spargo, Will Rothman
and W.H. Kipp, who work eight hours each, and they are required to handle every
train on the road and can ascertain at any time where each train is. The
conductors of freight and passenger trains are required to register at each
station they pass and when they leave a station the time is at once reported to
the train dispatchers at Antoine and these men must arrange meeting points on
the road for trains running in opposite directions. Should they happen to make
a slight mistake in their instructions to train men serious collisions are
liable to occur and to prevent mistakes their minds must be constantly on their
work. A.C. Harteau is also a train dispatcher at Antoine and has charge of the
wires going to the office at Escanaba. When only the regular trains are running
these dispatchers have what they term a comparatively easy time, but when a
number of special trains are on the road they sometimes have to remain at their
post during the eight hours, which constitutes a day's work. On Saturday Mr.
Spargo related an instance when he was compelled to remain at his post and work
incessantly without getting out of the chair until his eight hours had expired.
This causes a great strain on the nerves and a train dispatcher must of
necessity be of sound bodily health.
The
Iron Range , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIII, Number 29
[Thursday, October 8, 1891], page 1,
column 2
A BRAKEMAN named Frank Dumas was killed near Pulp siding on the C. &
N.W. roil- road [sic], about five miles west of this city last Monday. He was
working on ore train No. 124, and the engine and seven ore cars were thrown from
the track at the siding by a broken switch, and the unfortunate man was caught
between the cars and crushed to death.
The
Iron Range, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume
XIII, Number 29
[Thursday, October 8, 1891], page 1, column 4
MOVE THE FREIGHT DEPOT.
One of the annoyances in this city which is growing to be an insufferable
nuisance, is the continual blocking of Ludington and Hughitt streets by the
switching done at the C. & N.W. depot. These streets are becoming important
business thoroughfares, and the interruption of travel occasioned by the
switching of cars and making up of freight trains, seriously hinders the
transaction of business on these streets and works a constant injury to the
owners of property. Ludington street is rapidly being built up with business
houses. It is the natural outlet for the overflow of business from Stephenson
avenue. The time will soon come when business men [sic] must go west of the
tracks to find a location to do business and as the travel across the track is
thus increased the danger to human life will also be greatly increased. The
freight depot should be moved, either up or down the track, away from the
business center of the city. If the freight depot we [sic- were] located near the Standard Oil Company's tanks, it would be out of the
way and still be near enough not to entail much inconvenience in the matter of
drayage. The objection that will be raised by the company doubtless will be that
the business of the two depots cannot be conducted quite so cheaply if they are
separated as at present, but THE RANGE holds that public convenience and welfare
and the safety of human life are matters that should not be outweighed by any
such consi-
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derations. If arrangements could be made to make up the ore trains at some other
point and locate the freight depot opposite the Chapin shops, which is doubtful,
that would perhaps be better, but it is time that the railroad company should
take this matter into consideration and settle upon some point that will be
mutually advantageous and remove this source of constant annoyance and menace to
human life. Several business houses are now being built on Ludington street, and
we hear of others that are soon to follow, and if the railroad company takes the
proper view of this matter, their freight house will be removed before the close
of another year.
The
Iron
Range, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XIII,
Number 37
[Thursday, December 3, 1891], page 1, column 3
A CHANGE of time took effect on the M. & N. road last Sunday. Trains 3 and 4
do not run north of Iron Mountain. No. 4 leaves this city at 10 a.m. instead of 11:30 a.m. No. 3 arrives at 4:10 p.m. instead of 2:40. No. 5 leaves at 6:45 a.m.
instead of 6:35 a.m., and No. 6 leaves at 6:40 p.m. instead of 7:35 p.m. By this
change the connection at Champion with the D.S.S. & A. that was made by No.
3 arriving there at 4:45 p.m., and No. 4 leaving there at 9:35 a.m., is broken,
and the change of time on the M. & N. was occasioned by a change in the time
card of the D.S.S. & A., which made this connection impossible. The M. &
N., had become the popular route of travel from the copper country south, and
the road will consequently lose considerab[le] traffic we think by the change.
The D.S.S. & A. train goes north now in the morning and returns in the
afternoon instead of vice versa as heretofore
The
Iron Range, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume
XIII, Number 37
[Thursday, December 3, 1891], page 1, column 4
THE work on the Quinnesec Logging Company's new railroad is progressing
rapidly -- five miles having been already graded. Nothing definite has yet been
done to secure the extension of the line to this city. To do so will cost
$12,000 to build a bridge across the Menominee and the balance of the road will
cost about the same as to grade a road to a junction with the M. & N. on the
other side of the river. As we understand it, while it would be some advantage
to the company to run their line to this city and establish their headquarters
here, the inducement is not sufficient for them to stand the entire $12,000
extra expense and they want some assistance in building the bridge. The
advantage to Iron Mountain to have the line ex tended to this city is apparent.
It is worth something to have the headquarters of the company established here.
It will bring us into closer connection with the growing farming community on
the other side of the river —- giving them additional facilities for getting
their wood and other produce to this market, and for getting their supplies from
here. It seems to us it is worth the while of the business men [sic] of Iron
Mountain to give this matter some attention.
The
Iron Range , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIII, Number 39
[Thursday, December 17, 1891], page 4,
column 1
GEO. SLEICH, the owner of the hotel at Ellis Junction, is building a hotel
at Sagola, in anticipation, it is reported, of the extension next summer, of the
line from Metropolitan to Sidnaw. Probably also some of the M. & N. trains
will stop there for meals.
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ANOTHER CHANGE IN TIME ON THE M. & N.
Next Sunday another change of time goes into effect on the M. & N. by which
they will return to nearly the same time they run on all summer. Passenger train
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No. 3 will leave Milwaukee at 7:30 p.m., arriving in Champion at 5:10 p.m. No. 4
will leave Champion at 9:35 a.m. and arrived in Milwaukee at 7 p.m., thus
resuming the through service to Champion.
The
Iron Range, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume
XIII, Number 42
[Thursday, January 7, 1892], page 1, column 2
THE locomotive Win. Allen, belonging to the Quinnesec Logging
Company, was brought here from Republic over the M. & N. last Monday. In
getting it from the woods to the station it fell through a bridge and some
repairs will be made here before it is taken over to the company's new road
across the river. The main part of the locomotive now stands on a pair of heavy
bobs and will be hauled over to Wisconsin by horses.
The
Iron Range , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIII, Number 44
[Thursday, January 21, 1892], page 4,
column 2
THE Quinnesec Logging Company's railroad, on the other side of the Menominee
river, is nearly ready for business. The rails are now being laid and the road
will be in operation by the first of February. By the way, is any move going to
be made to induce the company to extend its line to this city? This is a matter
worthy of the consideration of the Iron Mountain Business Men's Association.
The
Iron Range, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume
XIII, Number 45
[Thursday, January 28, 1892], page 1, column 2
THE Quinnesec Logging Company has four miles of track laid and will be hauling logs by the 15th of February. They have been delayed in track laying by re
pairs required to their locomotive, but these repairs were received last
Saturday and the engine is now in working order.
The
Iron Range, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume
XIII, Number 45
[Thursday, January 28, 1892], page 1, column 3
THE locomotives in the M. & N. railroad yard gave an alarm of
fire last Fri day evening about 6:30 o'clock, which was caused by a big blaze in
an old box car used for storing oil and other company supplies. The car was
standing close up to the north end of the coal sheds, and the possible damage
that might have resulted but for the prompt work of the fire department is no
small item. As it was, however, the loss is some damage to an old box car. One
or two of the hydrants in that vicinity were frozen up and could not be used,
and the fire department was caused some delay in getting water. The incident
should be remembered when the council come [sic] to consider the granting of a
franchise to the water works company, and if possible provisions should be
inserted that will compel the company to have all their hydrants in perfect
working order at all times.
The
Iron Range , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 3
[Thursday, April 7, 1892], page 1,
column 5
THE Quinnesec Logging Company has received another locomotive which
is being taken across the river to their railroad in Wisconsin. The locomotive,
minus tracks and pilot, weighs 16 tons, and considering the condition of the
road is a good load for 6 horses.
The
Iron Range, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume
XIV, Number 6
[Thursday, April 28, 1892], page 1, column 3
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MAIL weighing on the Menominee river branch of the C. &
N.W.R.R.
was completed on Tuesday. During the thirty-five days the following
amounts of mail were handled on the different routes named:
Between Florence and Powers, 62,435 pounds; between Powers and
Crystal Falls, 13,349 pounds; between Stager and Watersmeet, 16,517
pounds.
The
Iron Range , Iron Mountain, Dickinson
County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 8 f Thursday., May 12,1892], page 1, column 4
WORK will be commenced very soon on the extension of the M. & N.
road to Sidnaw to connect with their present line to Ontonagon. The
branch will start from a junction on section 16, 42-30, in Sagola, and
run to Amasa and thence to Sidnaw, and it is expected to have the new
road in operation before snow flies.
The
I Iron Range , Iron Mountain, Dickinson
County, Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 12 [Thursday, June 9, 1892], page 1, column 4
UNDER THE WHEELS.
A sad fatality occurred at the Ludington street crossing of the M.
& N. railroad last Saturday evening, by which Peter Judge, a
well-to-do farmer of Oconomowoc, who was here visiting his daughter,
Mrs. Peter Collins, was instantly killed. Mrs. Collins and her father
were crossing the track just as a long train of empty ore cars were
being backed up, and their attention was attracted by the Swedish company of the Salvation Army, which was marching to their barracks in
Laing's building with their usual base [sic] drum and tamborine
accompaniment. The religious enthusiasts were making so much noise
that the repeated shouts of the trainmen and bystanders, the rumble of
the cars, and ringing of the bell fail ed to apprise them of their
danger, and when the accident was seen to be inevitable, Night Yard
Master McBride and Mr. Baker, who were on the end car, at the risk of
their own lives, jumped off, one grabbing Mrs. Collins and dragging
her off the track and the other rescuing two little girls. There was
no time to save Mr. Judge, and he was knocked down and terribly
mangled by the cars. Mrs. Collins had to be restrained by force to
prevent her rushing between the cars in a wild attempt to rescue her
father and her agonized cries were pitiful to hear. The mangled
remains of Mr. Judge were sent to Oconomowoc Monday for burial.
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The
Iron Range, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 13
[Thursday, June 16, 1892], page 1, column 5
JAMES Crowe, marshal of Sagola township, got on a tear last Sunday and
started in to run the town to suit himself. He flourished a revolver, threatened
and terrified citizens and behaved himself in a very unseemly manner for a man
whose duty it is to see that other men conduct themselves properly. He is
endeavoring to explain his conduct in Justice Bergeron's s court today.
The
Iron Range, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XIV,
Number 15
[Thursday, June 30, 1892], page 1, column 3
THE telegraph line of the C. & N.W.R.R. company is being rebuilt from Powers
to Florence.
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JOS. DETORRE, an Italian working on the gravel train of the C. & N.W., was
caught by the falling bank last Tuesday and pinned against the side of the car.
His leg was broken and he received several bruises, but will recover in a few
weeks. He is being cared for at the St. George hospital.
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ONE of the switch engines on the M. & N. railroad is equipped with the most
outrageous whistle that ever tortured the human ear, and the engineer in charge
seems to delight in giving vicious blasts with it every time he goes through the
city. Ample warning to pedestrians of the approach of a locomotive is all right,
but we can see no necessity for a screech that can be heard a mile away to warn
people a block distant. It is no small annoyance to people living along the
line of the M. & N. or walking the streets to have this locomotive go
screeching through the city a dozen times a day. Can't that engineer pull the
whistle valve easy? If not, for pity's sake give him another whistle to play
with.
The
Iron Range, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 15
[Thursday, June 30, 1892], page 1, column 4
BRAKEMAN KILLED BY THE CARS.
Paul Lavoi, a brakeman, was instantly killed in a collision in Norway last Sun
day. The yard crew were taking an engine to the coal dock on the side track for
coal, the crew being ordered to take a special train to Iron Mountain. When near
the main track it collided with two freight cars. Lavoi was on the foot board of
the yard engine and the bumpers caught him cutting him in two.
The
Iron Range , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 19
[Thursday, July 28, 1892], page 1,
column 3
SHOT A BEAR.
While J. Park [sic - Parke] Channing and Geo. O'Neil were seated outside their
camp at Fort [sic - Ford] Siding (a small station between Republic and Iron
Mountain where they are exploring) Sunday evening a black bear passed along in
front of them. Both men quickly picked up their rifles and shot at the animal,
lodging two charges each in the body of the bear. Mr. O'Neil brought the carcass
to town, had it dressed, and distributed bear steak among his friends. The bear
weighed about 125 pounds when dressed. --Iron Ore. [NOTE: Ford Siding became
Channing, named for J. Parke Channing.]
The
Iron Range, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XIV,
Number 20
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[Thursday, August 4, 1892], page 1, column 3
TELESPHORE ROUSSEAU, a section hand on the M. & N. railroad, was
run over by a freight train last Thursday and killed. He was intoxicated.
The
Iron Range , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 20
[Thursday, August 4, 1892], page 1, column 5
WRECKED ORE TRAIN.
Yesterday afternoon about half past five o'clock a bad wreck occurred in front
of the Chapin mine office. Engineer Joseph Cox was taking a heavily loaded ore
train down the steep grade from the ore pockets, and when he reached a point
opposite the superintendent's house the rails spread and the engine left the
track. The engine was turned over and thrown to the north side of the track
bottom up, while the tender was tumbled down a small embankment on the south
side of the track. The engine and several of the ore cars are a complete wreck.
Engineer Cox attempted to save himself by jumping, and that he was not instantly
killed seems a miracle. He was found under the tender, which had to be pried up
by an old rail before he could be released. His injuries are reported to be
several broken ribs and a dislocated shoulder, and his complete recovery is
looked for. The firemen jumped to the right and escaped without injury.
The
Iron Range , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 25
[Thursday, September 8, 1892], page 1,
column 3
C.E. RUPRECHT & Co. will erect a
shingle mill at Merryman's Siding,
above Iron Mountain, with a capacity of 100,000 shingles a day.
The
Iron Range. Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XIV,
Number 26
[Thursday, September 25, 1892], page 1, column 3
FATALITIES.
A workman on the M. & N. gravel train was killed just above this city last
Tues day morning. His name was Frank Smokel. He attempted to jump from one train
to another while the train was in motion and fell between the cars and was so
badly injured that he died in a few hours. An inquest was held by Justice
Miller Tuesday, resulting in a verdict of accidental death, and exonerating the
railroad company from blame.
Otto Hojer received injuries from the falling of ground at the Pewabic last
Saturday that resulted in his death in a few hours.
Frank Ortland got squeezed between two cars at the Chapin mine last Friday,
receiving injuries from which he died the next day. At the time of this writing
the inquests on the last two cases, which were to be held by Justice Miller, had
not been had.
The
Iron Range, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XIV,
Number 27
[Thursday, September 22, 1892], page 1, column 2
A CHANGE on the Milwaukee & Northern Railway went into effect Sunday, by
which Train 5, which formerly arrived here at 6:35 a.m. now arrives at 6:25
a.m., and leaves at 6:45 a.m., ten minutes earlier. Train 4, goes south at 11:15
a.m., as heretofore. Train 3, formerly arriving at 3:35 p.m., now arrives at
2:55 p.m., forty minutes earlier; Train 6, formerly due here at 6:15 p.m., now
arrives at 7:15 p.m., and leaves at 7:40, just one hour later than formerly.
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The
Iron Range , Iron Mountain,
Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XIV, Number
27[Thursday, September 22, 1892], page 1, column 4
CUTTING AFFRAY.
JOHN SAMPSON and J.J. Whitman, two section men in the employ of the M. & N.
R.R., north of this city, engaged in a quarrel on the south bound train Monday
evening, in which Sampson used a knife pretty freely on Whitman. Chief Catlin
arrested Sampson at this station, and sent Whitman to the hospital. At a
preliminary hearing, befor[e] Justice Bergeron on Tuesday, Sampson waived
examination and was bound over to the circuit court. He was taken to the
Menominee jail yesterday.
The
Iron Range , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 28
[Thursday, September 29, 1892], page 1, column 5
AN UNCAGED SCOUNDREL.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck the evening passenger train on the C.
& N.W.R.R. last Tuesday evening at the D street crossing. A resident in that
neighborhood in passing on his way home noticed a quantity of cord wood piled on
the track and sticks wedged in between the planks and rails for the purpose of
raising the flange of the wheel above the rail. The track curves at this point
and had not the obstruction been discovered and removed the train would
certainly have been ditched. The discovery was made about fifteen minutes before
the arrival of the train. The perpetrators of this dastardly deed are murderers
in heart and de serve the severest punishment.
The
Iron Range , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 31
[Thursday, October 20, 1892], page 1, column 5
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, the little five year old son of Louis
Little, residence 207 west [sic] B street, near the M. & N. track, was run
over by an ore train and both legs cut off, one above and the other below the
knee. The little fellow had for weeks persisted in playing about the cars,
though he had repeatedly been driven away by the yard men, and Mr. Melis, whose
mill is along side the track. At the time of the accident he was attempting to
get on to a moving ore car and fell under the wheels. Dr. Crowell was summoned
as soon as possible, and the boy was removed to the St. George hospital where
one leg was amputated near the body and the other at the knee. He is doing as
well as could be expected at this writing. This terrible warning should teach
parents who live near the rail road tracks to use every possible diligence to
keep their children away from the cars.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume
XIV, Number 33
[Thursday, November 3, 1892], page 1, column 5
A BOTTOMLESS PIT.
The work of track-laying on the Ontonagon extension of the Milwaukee & Northern railroad has come to a standstill until what appears to be a bottomless pit
has been filled. The sink-hole is thirteen miles west of Channing, and some
fifty thou sand yards of earth have been dumped into it, but with no encouraging
results, as the bottom is still "out of sight."
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The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain,
Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 33
[Thursday, November 3, 1892], page 8, column 3
Ruprecht's new shingle mill at Merryman Siding has commenced
operations. It will employ about fifteen men, and has an immense supply of
timber.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 34
[Thursday, November 10, 1892], page 8, column 4
BRAKEMAN KILLED.
Last Saturday morning a Milwaukee & Northern brakeman named Hubbard was
killed while coupling cars at Pembine station. Hubbard was running backwards,
his foot caught in a "frog," and he was thrown under the train. He was
horribly mangled, nearly every bone in his body being crushed. The deceased was
a married man and resided at Green Bay.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XIV, Number
34
[Thursday, November 10, 1892], page 8, column 4
THAT SINK HOLE.
After dumping nearly 40,000 yards of earth into the sink hole on the northern
extension of the Milwaukee & Northern, near Channing, bottom was finally
located. It will take ten or fifteen days yet to finish filling so that
track-laying may proceed. In the meantime the crews were transferred to the
Sidnaw end of the road, and rails are being laid at the rate of a mile a day.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 35
[Thursday, November 17, 1892], page 8, column 2
The contractors have finally succeeded in filling in the sink-hole
near Channing, on the northern extension of the Milwaukee & Northern,
and track-laying will be resumed next Monday.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain,
Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 35
[Thursday, November 17, 1892], page 8, column 5
NEARING COMPLETION.
The connecting link between the Milwaukee & Northern and the Ontonagon
branch will be completed about December 1. Channing is the name that has been
given to the junction point near Iron Mountain, formerly known as Ford Siding,
and something of a town will doubtless spring up there. By January 1 through
trains will probably be run from Milwaukee to Ontonagon over this extension,
instead of going around by way of the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic, over
which the Ontonagon trains now run between Chompion [sic - Champion] and Sidnaw.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 36
[Thursday, November 24, 1892], page 1, column 3
NEW REGION OPENED.
Extension of the M. & N. from Channing to Sidnaw.
A representative of the Florence Mining News returned this week from a trip
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along the new extension of the Milwaukee & Northern railroad, from Channing
on a point between Iron Mountain and Republic to Sidnaw where the Northern
crosses the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic, on its way to Ontonagon. The
rails are about half laid on the new extension and the work of laying is being
pushed, with the idea of finishing by Christmas. At the south end a bad sink
hole has interfered materially with progress and while that was being filled, a
work train, under Conductor Allen, of Iron Mountain, was put on from Sidnaw
south, where four miles of rails have been laid. The extension of the Northern
will accomplish many objects of material benefit to the company and to the
section it traverses. It will open a region rich in pine, cedar and hardwood, of
which the evidence is ocular and indisputable. Also it intersects and follows
two well defined magnetic belts, where both the dipping needle and outcrops
indicate a promising field for those who may be tempted to exploit for iron
ore. At Carl Vaughn's homestead in section 31, 47-34, Michigan, the writer was
shown specimens from an outcrop of specular hematite less than a mile from the
line of the new track. The outcrop is not clean, but it is a good sign board and
the prediction that ore will be found near is not without foundation. The ore
belt is well defined and as soon as it can be at all conveniently reach[ed] with
supplies no end of exploration will be undertaken. The fact that what ore may be
found will more than likely be a Bessemer will be a more incentive [sic] to
search.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 36
[Thursday, November 24, 1892], page 1, column 4
LOG AND LUMBER LACONICS.
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The Quinnesec Company Received a New Baldwin Locomotive.
The logging industry of the Menominee River will be represented at the Chicago
World's Fair, by the Hubbard Saw and Tool company, Marinette. They will, upon a
miniature scale, still quite an extensive one, represent the different stages of
logging from the camps to the log drive. It will be an exceedingly novel and attractive exhibit, and will give many people an insight into the mysteries of logging that they have never realized.
The new Baldwin locomotive, which the Quinnesec company ordered some time ago,
has arrived here, and will be taken out on sleighs to the railroad. The tender
was taken out last Friday. Mr. Brown states that with this engine [he] hopes to
be able to land 150,000 feet of logs daily.
The Menominee River Boom company shut down last Monday having sorted 565 million
feet of logs this season. All the mills on the river will close in a few days.
The rear of the log drive froze up in the river about ten miles from the mouth.
The K.C. [Kimberly-Clark] company are reported to have cut a tree in one of
their camps from which they made seven logs that scaled 8,083 feet.
The Quinnesec company has three hundred men in their main camp. This is undoubtedly the largest cam in the upper peninsula.
The Sagola Lumber company's mill has shut down for the season. This concern is
operating two logging camps.
Edw. Parmenter is operating three camps this winter and expects to bank about
6,000,000 feet.
A Canadian concern is getting out square timber in the vicinity of
Floodwood.
The
Ra
e-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XIV,
Number 39
Thursday, December 15, 1892], page 8, column 6
PARMENTER'S MILL.
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The Enterprising Proprietor Arranging for a Number of
Improvements.
The winter season is not the most favorable time to visit a saw mill, but one
can see some things of interest about Ed. L. Parmenter's mill at Sturgeon river,
even when it is idle. He can at least see a well appointed mill and can readily
believe that in the summer season it is a hive of industry that is pleasing to
look upon. During the winter Mr. Parmenter, besides working his lumber camps,
will make some needed improvements about his mill and dam preparatory to a big
season's work next year. Two large steel boilers will be added to supply power
for the steam feed and other appliances that are to be operated by this means.
He will also build fifteen or twenty dwelling houses for his employes, and next
spring Sturgeon will be quite a beautiful and prosperous looking village. The
mill yard is well stocked with the various grades and forms of lumber made in
the mill, and evidently Mr. P.'s numerous customers don't propose to let him
keep it there to rot, for it is being sent away to fill the demands made upon
him. The product of the mill, to our more or less critical judgment, is first
class in quality, and certainly finds ready sale. About 100 men are now employed
by Mr. Parmenter in his lumber camps and about the mill premises -- all but
12 or 15 being employed in the woods. The real estate owned by Mr. Parmenter
about the mill comprises 250 acres, which gives ample room for storing the
product of the mill and for the village that is to be erected across the
railroad track.
The
Trange-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume
XIV, Number 42
[Thursday, January 5, 1893], page 1, column 4
SCHLESINGER ROAD.
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An Ishpeming Paper Says the Soo Road Will Operate the Same.
It is also said in connection with the Soo railroad movement that the company
will operate the Schlesinger syndicate road in conjunction with its own and
that, while it has been denied that the Chicago & Northwestern has been
asked by Mr. Schlesinger to relinquish the road, it still remains a fact that
such demand has been made and that the Soo will soon be operating the line.
According to the arrangement made between the Schlesinger syndicate and the
Northwestern, the former may se cure the road upon certain conditions made plain
in the provisions of the contract between the two interests. If there is
anything in the above, then the Soo line is after the ore business of the
district in a very substantial way. --Ishpeming Iron Ore.
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ONE MILLION TONS.
With the addition of the Aragon mine, at Norway, the Schlesinger syndicate now
controls in the neighborhood of one million tons of Menominee range ores and it
is whispered that they will not long be a patron of the Chicago &
Northwestern rail road but will transport their ore to Escanaba over a road of
their own. One thing is certain; that is, if they start the building of a road
they will continue to a finish. The rail rate of seventy-five cents on 1,000,000
tons of ore would be a neat earning for a road, if they did no other business.
--Diamond Drill.
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TRAINS TO ONTONAGON.
The new cut-off between Channing and Sidnaw, on the Milwaukee & Northern
rail road, was opened last Sunday for freight and passenger traffic and trains
will run as follows: Leave Channing at 8 a.m., daily, and 10 p.m. daily except
Sunday, ar-
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riving at Ontonagon at 4 p.m. and 7 a.m. Leaving the latter place at 9:50 a.m.
and 6 p.m., they will arrive at Channing at 5:30 p.m. and 1:40 a.m., the latter
except Sunday. Main line trains will make close connections with these.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 43
[Thursday, January 12, 1893], page 4, column 1
IRON MOUNTAIN & WESTERN.
At a meeting of the stockholders of Escanaba, Iron Mountain & Western
railroad company, held at Iron Mountain, Jan. 11th, 1893, the following board of
directors were [sic] elected: Byron L. Smith, Albert Keep, M.M. Kirkman, J.B.
Redfield, Charles E. Simmons, Chicago. As four of the above are Chicago &
Northwestern men it is hardly likely that Mr. Schlesinger will operate the E.I.M.
& W. this summer.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain,
Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 44
[Thursday, January 19, 1893], page 1, column 2
FOUND IN THE SNOW.
The remains of an unknown man were found in a snowbank along side of the Chicago
& North—Western track, near Quinnesec, last Wednesday. It is evident that
he was walking on the track during the blizzard which prevailed the fore part of
last week and was struck by an engine, probably being injured so badly that he
was unable to continue his journey and froze to death. Justice Moerbitz held an
inquest.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 43
[Thursday, January 26, 1893], page 8, column 3
The Marinette Lumber company has purchased the Evans shingle mill at
Floodwood, and will move it to the mouth of the river.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 44
[Thursday, February 2, 1893], page 1, column 2
BOUGHT A TOWN.
John Harrington, the enterprising saloon man, familiarly known as Jack Harrington, has purchased the whole of Floodwood, up the road, and will conduct the
saloon business there as well as the Franklin House in this city. The town,
which is a new one, is built on a forty acres, which belonged to one man who
recently died. John purchased the whole plat for $1,900, and now has the
monopoly of the sale of all goods in his line. The business is said to be worth
a profit of $5,000 a year. -- Marquette Times.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XIV,
Number 44
[Thursday, February 2, 1893], page 8, column 6
THE SCHLESINGER ROAD.
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The Syndicate is Determined to Have a Road to Transport its Ore.
There seems to be no room for doubt of the determination of the Schlesinger
syndicate to build and operate a railroad, thus enabling them to handle the
product of their many mining properties on the Menominee and Marquette ranges. A
party of surveyors, presumed to be in the employ of the syndicate, is now at
work near Negau-
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nee and those who pretend to know say that a road covering the mines of the
syndicate on the two ranges will be built. The outlet is a matter of
conjecture. The distance as the crow flies between Crystal Falls and Negaunee is
forty-eight miles, while the distance to Iron Mountain is somewhat greater. The
building of such a road would carry the significance that all of the Schlesinger
mines in this district would be wrought, which includes the Armenia and Claire
mines, the latter capable of an annual output of 500,000 tons. --Crystal
Falls Drill.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 45
[Thursday, February 9, 1893], page 1, column 6
BADLY HURT.
An Austrian with an unspellable name got in the way of the south bound passenger train as it was entering the Chicago & North-Western depot last Thursday
and was badly injured. He was taken to St. George hospital for treatment and was
in a precarious condition at last accounts. He was intoxicated.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XIV,
Number 46
[Thursday, February 16, 1893], page 8, column 4
A NEW CITY.
W.H. O'Brien Intends Building One on the Banks of the Sturgeon.
Last Saturday, the plat of the new town of Loretto, which W.H. O'Brien, of
Chicago, president of the Appleton Mining company, intends building up on the
banks of the Sturgeon river, was placed on file in the office of the register of
deeds.
Loretto is located in the westerly part of northwest fractional quarter of section eighteen, town thirty-nine, range twenty-eight west. The plat is the work
of Henry G. Rothwell, civil engineer, of L'Anse, and the townsite consists of
twelve blocks containing 256 lots.
It is the intention, we understand, of Mr. O'Brien, to dispose of these lots for
a small consideration to employes of the mining company and also to erect a
number of dwellings for rental.
The townsite is a very pretty one, and should the recent discovery of high—
grade ore in that vicinity pan out as well as expected, we have no doubt that a
town of several thousand inhabitants will spring up there in the next few years.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 49
[Thursday, March 9, 1893], page 1, column 3
VERY EXPENSIVE.
A gentleman who is in a position to know, estimates that the late storm cost the
Milwaukee & Northern railroad fully $15,000. Three engines were badly
wrecked, and the flanger and spreader damaged somewhat. The two engines that
went off the track near Channing last Tuesday were taken south to the repair
shops last Thursday evening, together with the flanger, spreader and several car
loads of wreckage.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XIV, Number 49
[Thursday, March 9, 1893], page 8, column 6
A PROSPEROUS TOWN.
One of the most prosperous little towns in this upper peninsula is Sagola,
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which owes its existence to the large mill owned by the Sagola Lumber company.
The business of this enterprising company is managed by John 0'Callaghan, Patrick
Flanagan and D. Wittenberg, and each gentlemen [sic] giving his entire
attention to a particular line of duties, nothing escapes them that will
contribute toward the flattering success that rewards their efforts. Sagola
within the past three years has grown to be a village of considerable size, and
some of the residences of its citizens would be a credit to towns of greater
pretensions, while about the cottage of the humblest dweller is an air of
comfort that bespeaks steady employment and good pay. The Sagola Lumber
company's mill is situated in the center of a large tract of excellent pine
timber, and some of the lumber produced has attracted the wonder and admiration
of judges of lumber in the markets to which it is sent. Four inch planks,
sixteen feet long and 36 inches wide, without a knot, mar or blemish of any kind
are not uncommon. Some fine specimens of lumber from this mill will be exhibited
at the World's Fair in Chicago, and it will take something phenominal to beat
it. The ordinary output of the mill is as much above the average it [sic - in]
the markets as these specimens are above the possibilities of ordinary mills.
The Sagola Lumber company's mill has all the improvements of the latest
inventions, runs a band saw, is operated day and night, summer and winter, and
while speed is, of course, a factor always kept in mind, good lumber well sawed
is the main consideration. The mill at present produces 70,000 feet of lumber,
50,000 shingles and 20,000 to 30,000 lath in 24 hours. In summer it does better,
as the logs while frozen are more difficult to handle. They are hauling from the
choppings about 120,000 feet of logs per day, and have 5,000,000 feet banked at
the end of their railroad, ready to be hauled in by cars as soon as sleighing
breaks up. Electricity furnishes light in and about the mill by night. Most of
their output is sold to a few large consumers, and we observed that the greater
part os [sic - of] the lumber piled in their extensive yards was marked sold.
Travelers who have occasion to stop in Sagola are welcomed and graciously
treated by the genial gentlemen about the company's office, and after working up
an appetite seeing the sights about the mill, about the most satisfactory place
to visit is McCormick's boarding house, where you get a square meal that is as
clear of mars and blemishes as the handsomest stick of timber the company ever
produced. McCormick was a former resident of this city and has lathed many an
Iron Mountain house. He is a good lather, but he is a better cook.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV,
Number 8
[Thursday, May 25, 1893], page 1, column 5
BRAKEMAN KILLED.
Alvin Barber, a Milwaukee & Northern brakeman, nearly had his head severed
from the body in the Chapin yards last Saturday night. He was assisting in
making up an ore train and no one appears to know how the accident happened.
When found his head was on one side of the rail and his body one [sic - on] the
other, the two being held together by some fragments of skin. He was
twenty-three years of age and his parents resided at Plymouth, Wis., whither the
remains were shipped Sunday evening.
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OPERATORS STRIKE.
Last Tuesday morning about eighty five per cent. of the Chicago &
North—Western telegraph operators in the upper peninsuza [sic] went out on a
strike. L.E. Lehey, operator at the depot here, was among the number. Passenger
trains arrived and de parted on time, but nearly all the freights were laid out.
On the main line several serious collisions resulted. Later developments would
indicate that the strike was the result of a misunderstanding and nearly all the
men have returned to work.
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The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain,
Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number
10[Thursday, June 8, 1893], page 1, column 2
PROMOTED.
Edward Lepper, who has held the position of ticket agent at the Chicago &
North-Western depot for some years back, has been promoted to the position of
cashier. Fred Northey, late assistant clerk in Seibert's Central Pharmacy, succeeds him as ticket agent.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XV, Number 10
[Thursday, June 8, 1893], page 1, column 4
RUN OVER.
N. Howard, bridge foreman of the Milwaukee & Northern, was run over by a
hand— car last Monday, the car passing over his right arm and breast. Strange
to say no bones were broken. The arm was badly lacerated, however, and Howard
will be con fined to his home for a week or ten days.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV,
Number 10
[Thursday, June 8, 1893], page 4, column 4
DIGGING INTO THE FOREST.
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Three Logging Companies that are Extending Their Railroads.
The Girard Lumber company will commence work next week on an extension to their
logging road at Dunbar. The rails will be laid five or six miles further into
the company's pine. The tract near the mill has all been cut and the company was
forced to dig into the forest further. A large force of men left Menominee this
week to labor on the project. The logging road is about eight miles now and this
extension will give them about fifteen miles.
The Sagola Lumber company, which operates a logging road in Dickinson county,
will soon commence tearing up the rails on its present line. The road will be
transferred about twenty miles further north and connection made with the
Milwaukee & Northern road to bring the timber to Sagola.
The Holmes' logging railway near Pembine is also to be extended. Civil Engineer
Shaw, of Marinette, is now making the survey for the new piece of road. It will
be fifteen miles long and with the present mileage will make a 27 mile run.
--Menominee Democrat.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume
XV, Number 11
[Thursday, June 15, 1893], page 1, column 5
M. & N. EXPLORATIONS.
J. Parke Channing, who has charge of the Milwaukee & Northern exploration,
now has fifty men in his employ and has three working in Iron county and one
near Republic.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume
XV, Number 11
[Thurs ay, June 15, 1893], page 1, column 6
FAST FREIGHT.
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The Milwaukee & Northern company is now operating a fast freight train
between Chicago and Milwaukee and Iron Mountain to the great satisfaction of the
business men. Freight delivered in Chicago or Milwaukee up to six o'clock in the
evening now arrives in Iron Mountain at three o'clock the next day. This is but
a few hours slower than passenger trains.
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STOLE COAL.
A number of small boys were being investigated by County Agent Buell yesterday.
They are charged with stealing coal from [the] Chicago & North-Western road.
Agent Stiles estimates that his company loses between 500 and 1,000 tons or coal
annually at this station.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XV, Number 11
[Thursday, June 15, 1893], page 8, column 2
Russel Jones is now a resident of Iron Mountain, having accepted a
position in the Milwaukee & Northern offices.
...
John B. Baker is the new ticket agent at the Chicago & North-Western depot.
He was lately employed in the Northern office.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XV, Number 11
[Thursday, June 15, 1893], page 8, column 3
On and after July first the Milwaukee & Northern will be known as
the Northern Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, and
will cease to exist as an independent line.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XV, Number 11
[Thursday, June 15, 1893], page 8, column 4
A new post-office has been established at Channing, this county. Thomas
E. Timlin has been designated as postmaster.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume
XV, Number 13
[Thursday, June 29, 1893], page 1, column 3
MILWAUKEE & NORTHERN.
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After Saturday To Be Known as the Lake Superior Division of
C., M. & St. P.
On and after Saturday next, July 1, the Milwaukee & Northern railroad will
cease to exist as a separate railway corporation. The important step was taken
at a meeting held in Milwaukee last Monday. The property known as the Milwaukee
& Northern railway was virtually purchased by the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul company about two years ago, but has up to the present time been
operated as an independent road with a full compliment of officers. The
following order has been is sued:
"Beginning July 1st, 1893, the Milwaukee & Northern railroad will be
operated as a part of the St. Paul system, and will be known as the Lake
Superior division of the same. H.M. Bell will remain as superintendent, and J.J.
Coleman will be appointed assistant general freight agent of the St. Paul
company; and will report directly to headquarters, as he has heretofore done as
general freight agent of the
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Northern. This step is in pursuance of arrangements for the sale of the road and
property to the St. Paul company, which action was taken by the Milwaukee &
Northern directors at the meeting Monday. The sale, however, will not be
consumated until ratified by the stockholders at the meeting of the two
companies in the fall, but the operation will be assumed by the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul company on July 1st, as before stated.["]
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan,
Volume XV, Number 13
[Thursday, June 29, 1893], page 4, column 3
KILLED NEAR VULCAN.
On Tuesday, the passenger train which passes this station at 9:02 a.m. ran down
a man at the curve one mile east of [the] East Vulcan mine. An attempt was made
to stop the train after signalling with the whistle but it was of no avail. The
man was thrown from the track and on being picked up was found to have been
injured about the head and neck and life was gone. The body was taken to
Waucedah and Coroner Hay was wired to take charge of it. A jury was impannelled
and taken to the Waucedah station to view the remains. At the time of viewing
the body, the man's name or residence could not be found but since it has been
learned that the remains are those of Samuel Nuvilice. He resided at Norway and
leaves a wife and family in his native land, Finland. --Current.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XV, Number 13
[Thursday, June 29, 1893], page 5,
column 1
The Chicago & North-Western pay car was here last Tuesday evening.
The Milwaukee & Northern is building a large depot at Channing.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XV, Number 15
[Thursday, July 13, 1893], page 1,
column 2
AMPLE SLEEPING CAR ACCOMMODATIONS.
To accommodate a constantly increasing travel, the North-Western line has recently made such additions to its sleeping car service between northern
Wisconsin and Michigan points, and Milwaukee and Chicago, as to insure ample and
desirable accommodations to all who contemplate visiting the world's fair. The
excellent buffet sleeping car and free reclining chair car service is still
maintained, as well as the other features which have rendered the North-Western
line pre-eminently the popular line to the east, west and south. Sleeping car
accommodations can be reserved in advance upon application to agents [of the]
Chicago & North-Western railway. Visitors to the world's fair via this line
will find that excellent arrangements have been made for their prompt transfer
to the exposition grounds.
The
Ranger-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV,
Number 16
[Thursday, July 20, 1893], page 8, column 4
Channing is a thriving town. Better buy a lot there.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume
XV, Number 17
[Thursday, July 27, 1893], page 8, column 4
While at Channing the other day we saw a plat of the new town laid out there
by the C.M. & St. P. railroad company. A new and neat depot has just been
completed by
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the company and work will soon be begun on a new building to be used as an
eating house. It being the intention of the railroad company to so arrange their
time table as to bring Ontonagon trains there in time for breakfast and supper,
instead of Iron Mountain. Lots are selling lively. --Ontonagon Herald.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XV, Number 18
[Thursday, August 3, 1893], page 1, column 5
THE I. M. & M. RAILROAD.
----
Alleged Reason Why Its Construction Was Not Attempted This
Year.
One of our u.p. [sic] exchanges facetiously inquired recently concerning the
status of the Iron Mountain & Menominee railroad project. A Democrat
reporter ran across Mr. Bagley, who was the principal promoter of the scheme not
long ago and is able to furnish the desired information. According to him the
construction of the road would be under way by this time had it not been for the
financial panic which has swept the country. Investments everywhere have been
withdrawn and capital is reluctant to materialize any scheme. Just so with the
men who were to build this line. They have yielded to the stress of the times
and locked their iron boxes. But the railroad will be built as soon as business
picks up. Mr. Bagley expects to see the Iron Mountain and Menominee railroad a
realization before another year has passed. It was simply impossible to build
this summer and there is no one surprised at the fact. The C. & N.W.R.R. has
antagonized the Schlesinger syndicate to a very disagreeable extent. There is
undoubtedly a good indication that the new road is yet a very likely
possibility. --Menominee Democrat.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XV, Number 19
[Thursday, August 10, 1893], page 1, column 3
KILLED BY THE CARS.
----
Bernie Reynolds, a Fourteen-Year-Old Lad, Falls Under the
Wheels.
Last Monday evening, Bernie, the fourteen-year-old son of Joseph Reynolds,
fell under the wheels of the work train in the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
yards and received injuries from which he died soon after.
Just when the young lad got on the train or how the accident occurred is not
known. He was over the river picking berries and boarded the train at Siding No.
1 or the bridge. He was noticed in the car used by the men after leaving the latter place. It is highly probably [sic - probable] that he was endeavoring to
pass from one car to another and slipped and fell under the wheels, both legs
being cut off close to the body.
He was picked up by the trainmen and taken to St. George hospital, where every
thing possible was done to alleviate the pain and save his life, but the shock
was too great for his system to withstand and he died in about an hour after the
accident occurred.
This makes the second accident of this nature that has occurred within a year,
but the small boy continues to catch on trains regardless of consequences. It is
simply impossible for the trainmen to keep them out of the yards and off the
trains without the hearty co-operation of parents, and it is to be hoped that
this will now be forthcoming. Keep your boy at home.
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AT CHANNING.
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Agent Tamlin, of the St. Paul road, and a gentleman from Ontonagon have ar
ranged to erect hotels at the above place. The round-house, which was destroyed
by fire recently, is to be rebuilt at once.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XV, Number 20
[Saturday, August 19, 1893], page 8, column 1
The Chicago & North-Western road has sent out circulars telling
baggagemen that they must use more care in handling baggage -- that two-thirds
of the damage to baggage is the result of careless handling.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XV, Number 21
[Saturday, August 26, 1893], page 8,
column 1
The railroad office at Antoine has been closed.
The
Range-Tribune,
Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV,
Number 21
[Saturday, August 26, 1893], page 8, column 4
The North-Western contemplates making some needed improvements to the
depot here.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume
XV, Number 22
[Saturday, September 2, 1893], page 1, column 1
THE WORK OF ARCH FIENDS
----
DASTARDLY ATTEMPT TO WRECK A PASSENGER TRAIN.
----
On the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Road Near Amberg Last
Sunday --
The Engineer Mained for Life.
A particularly fiendish attempt was made to wreck the southbound passenger train
on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road two miles this side of Amberg last
Sunday evening, and that half a hundred people were not killed is no fault of
the scoundrels. As it is, Richard Aainsworth, the engineer, is the only one that
will be maimed for life.
The engine was rushing along forty or fifty miles an hour, when it struck a
large granite boulder, which had been wedged in between two ties on the left
hand side of the track. The engine jumped the track on the right hand side,
turned a complete somersault and slewed around so that it was headed in an
opposite direction from which it was going. The boiler was stripped bare of
cab, stack and every thing. The tender jumped the track on the opposite side,
and the baggage, mail and smoking cars passed completely over it, the latter
coming to a standstill in almost an upright position, the passengers being piled
in a heap at the lower end, but none were injured beyond a few bruises. The mail
and baggage cars were badly damaged, while the front end of the smoker was
crushed in. The other cars did not leave the track.
Engineer Aainsworth was found between the rails under the smoker with his right
leg crushed below the knee and otherwise bruised. He calmly quieted the fears of
friends as to his injuries, but expressed a desire to capture and properly
punish the dastards who had placed the obstruction upon the track. Upon the
arrival of a physician it was found necessary to amputate the limb below the
knee. Henry Bald win, the fireman, was thrown some fifty feet, but beyond a few
bruises is uninjured. The mail agent was stood on his head in the sand, but his
beauty was not marred. The contents of the car were badly disfigured, however.
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The granite boulder, which caused the accident, weighed 76 pounds, and the bed
from which it had been taken was over fifty feet from the track. It is the
general opinion that it was placed on the track by tramps who had been refused a
ride. Company detectives are now at work on the case and a determined effort
will be made to locate the guilty parties.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County,
Michigan, Volume XV, Number
22[Saturday, September 2, 1893], page 1, column 4
LOST A HORSE.
A horse belonging to Sam Daniels, the drayman, was struck by an engine on the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road last Thursday morning and injured so
badly that it had to be shot.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume
XV, Number 22
[Saturday, September 2, 1893], page 1, column 5
RAILWAY RUMBLINGS.
...
A new time tadle [sic - table] went into effect on the Chicago &
North-Western last Sunday. Trains now arrive at this station as follows: Going
north, at 8 a.m. and 5:20 p.m.; going south, at 9:10 a.m. and 7:22 p.m. An
accommodation train arrives from Powers at noon and goes as far north as
Florence each week day.
...
The stockholders of the Milwaukee &
Northern held a meeting at Milwaukee
last Monday and ratified the sale of the road to the St. Paul company.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume
XV, Number 23
[Saturday, September 9, 1893], page 1, column 6
"JUST FOR FUN."
This was the reply of one of the scoundrels arrested last week for placing a
huge boulder on the track of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road when
questioned as to his reason for the commitment of the crime. The men were
arrested in a cedar camp between Amberg and Pembine, and gave their names as
Victor Robson and John Morrow. They will have their examination at Marinette
next Wednesday, and are certain to be placed where they can perpetrate no more
such devilish jokes for a long term of years.
----
TO WRECK A NORTH-WESTERN TRAIN.
John Eden and Olaf Sojoden are in jail at Menominee charged with attempting to
wreck a Chicago & North-Western train near Wallace. Eleven large pieces of
iron, commonly called fish plates, were placed on the track at different places.
The iron, says the Menominee Democrat, was so adjusted that a train from the
south would surely have been ditched had it struck them, but luckily a freight
from the north brushed them away before the early morning passenger went over
the rails.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume
XV, Number 24
Saturday, September 16, 1893], page 1, column 4
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TRAIN ROBBERS AT CALUMET
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THE CALUMET & HECLA LOSES ABOUT $70,000 DOLLARS.
----
Jack King, the Westler [sic
- Wrestler], Accused of Being a
Party to the Crime -- Hold-Up Takes Place in Broad Daylight
-- Notes.
CALUMET, MICH., Sept. 15. -- A train on the Mineral Range Railroad was held up
between here and Hancock by four masked men this morning and robbed of $70,000
of the Calumet and Hecla mine money. The robbery was the most daring ever
committed in the west, the hold-up taking place at 9:30 this morning.
The train coming to Calumet was held up by four highwaymen at the highway about
half way between Calumet and Hancock. The engineer and fireman were covered with
revolvers by two of the robbers, while the other two ordered the express
messenger to put the contents of his safe into a bag which one of the robbers
carried. The messenger immediately complied and handed out some $75,000 or
$80,000 consigned to the Calumet and Hecla mine and which was part of the money
to be paid by the mine on its monthly pay-roll.
After securing the booty the robbers fired a shot and ordered the engineer to
"go ahead d--d quick," which he did. The whole affair was such a
surprise that the passengers knew nothing of the trouble till after the train
had started. The Light Guards and the sheriffs are out souring [sic - scouring]
the country. It is thought that the robbers had horses conveniently near and a
boat ready at the lake, from which point they would make for Northern Canada.
The train was loaded with passengers, among whom was Representative Edward
Ryan.
The scene of the robbery, the Mineral Range railroad, is a narrow gauge road
running between Houghton and Calumet, with branches extending to several smaller
mines. The Calumet and Hecla mine gives employment to about 2,000 men. The company pays its employes about the 15th of each month. The money taken to-day was
sent from eastern banks by the company. The men who committed the robbery were
evidently acquainted with the manner in which the company paid its employes and
the day on which the money is usually shipped.
Jack King, the wrestler, and Joe Kehoe, a sport, who have been in this vicinity
for some time, were arrested on suspicion of being connected with the plot.
Sheriff Dunnsoon called a posse and with them he has gone on a special train in
pursuit of the robbers. The whole section is aroused and many have offered their
services.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV,
Number 25
[Saturday, September 23, 1893], page 1, column 4
WELL KNOWN HERE.
Richard King, Jack King and Jack Chellew, three of the men arrested for being
implicated in the robbing of the train on the Mineral Range road, a full account
of which appeared in these columns last week, are comparatively well known here.
Dick King was two years ago proprietor of the meat market now owned by Hoose
& Co., and until two months ago was in the employ of Richard White. Jack
King was in the employ of Dick for a time and it was here he made his start as a
professional wrestler. Jack Chellew was at one time employed by the late Joseph
Pascoe as a bar-tender and was considered a hard citizen. He was here this
spring and was implicated in the holding up of James Dewese on West B street.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV,
Number 25
Saturday, September 23, 1893], page 8, column 5
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ALL
THE MONEY FOUND.
----
William
Pinkerton's Story of the Copper Range Train Robbery.
"We found that the whole job had been
put up by Ed. Hogan, the messenger's brother, who himself had been a messenger
in the same service. He knew all about the Calumet & Hecla's shipment of
money. After his discharge from the service he became dissolute and fell in with
sporting characters. First he got Butler in the job, then his friend Jack King
and last of all LaLiberty, because of his railroad knowledge. LaLiberty boarded
the engine, the other two knocked in the car and got the money. Hogan, the
messenger, had the money ready. They intended to ditch the engine to gain time,
but were prevented by the passing of ore trains.
Mr. Pinkerton said that the money,
the entire amount stolen, $70,000, was as safe as if it were in the deposit
vaults of a bank. The men who were the principals in the robbery were these:
Ed. Hogan, of Marquette, Mich., an
ex-express messenger, who has recently been living the life of a sport, and who
was the originator of the conspiracy.
Dominick Hogan, his brother, who was the express messenger on the train that was
robbed, and who had custody of the $70,000 that was taken.
Jack King, the famous champion of the
United States at the Cornish style wrestling.
Jack Butler, of Marquette, Mich., an
all around crook, up to all the games in vogue, who has done his term in state's
prison.
George LaLiberty, an ex-railroad
stoker, who was out of work and who was the only man in the party who was
capable of handling a railroad locomotive."
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume
XV, Number 27
[Saturday, October 14, 1893], page 1, column 4
LOW
RATES TO CONTINUE.
The Chicago & North-Western will sell tickets to Chicago and return for
$7.00, commencing October 15th to the 31st inclusive. Tickets good to return
until November 15th. Parties wishing sleeping accommodations should make it
known two or three days in advance.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain,
Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number 27
[Saturday, October 14, 1893],
page 8, column 2
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul company is building a new turntable just south of G street. The old one,
near the depot, is to be taken up.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV,
Number 27
[Saturday, October 14, 1893], page 8, column 3
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
has a crew of men and a steam shovel at work filling the long trestle south of
the Menominee river. It will take months to complete the work.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain,
Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number 28
[Saturday,
October 21, 1893], page 1, column 3
MENOMINEE
& NORTHERN!
----
MENOMINEE
CAPITALISTS HAVE ORGANIZED A COMPANY.
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To Build a Railroad to Iron Mountain With a
Capital Stock of $500,000 --
John Bagley has been in the city.
Result, organization of the Menominee & Northern Railway company. Home
capital. Five hundred thousand dollars. The business was fixed up in the law
office of one of Menominee's best known legal lights Monday.
At first nobody would talk. A Herald
reporter camped on the trail of the promoters, however, and found out that the
scheme to build a railroad from Iron Mountain and the Menominee iron range to
Menominee, which was projected several months, [sic] ago[,] had again come to
life, and this time it was a sure go. Also that preliminary surveys are now
being run between the iron range and Menominee, both in Michigan and Wisconsin,
for what will hereafter be known as the Menominee & Northern railroad.
Charters for both states have been forwarded to the respective secretaries for
filing, etc., and while it has not yet been decided, the chances are favorable
for the building of the road on the Wisconsin side of the river so as to take in
the pine timbered country, with a crossing some where in the vicinity of the
upper, or Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul bridge. Ore docks will be built at
some point on the bay shore this side of Popple Point, where it is also expected
that the necessary machine shops, round-house and yards will be located. In all
probability a portion of the Ingalls & White Rapids narrow gauge logging
railroad will be utilized for the new road, either by putting down a third rail,
or laying a new track so as to accommodate the standard guage [sic - gauge]
cars.
The company is composed of a number
of our well-known capitalists, and all the stock subscribed is as good as paid
in.
The new line will open up and be the
means of developing a rich belt of hard and soft wood country, besides tapping
the mineral range. --Menominee Herald.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number
29
[Saturday, October 28, 1893], page 1, column 5
A
NARROW ESCAPE.
Brakeman C.G. Hartley, on the C., M.
& St.P.R.R., fell off a flat car at the Menominee river bidge [sic -
bridge], last Sunday night, down to the rocks below. Fortunately he escaped with
a few slight bruises.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number
31
November 11, 1893], page 1, column 4
A
NEW TIME CARD.
A new time card is to go into effect
on the Chicago & North-Western next Sun day, and some material changes are
to be made in the running of trains on this division. Chicago express will
return to last winter's time, when it left the windy city at 10:30 p.m. and
arrived here at about 11:00 a.m. It is also reported that the local train
between Crystal Falls and Escanaba is to be withdrawn, and a fast Duluth train
put on.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number
32
[Saturday, November 18, 1893], page 1, column 3
GETS
A SHORT SENTENCE
----
BUTLER
GETS ONLY FIVE YEARS FOR TRAIN ROBBING.
----
Pleaded
Guilty on His Attorney's Advice -- The Latter Advanced the Plea that
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Larceny
Was His Only Guilt.
Marquette dispatch to the Detroit
Tribune: "When the Mineral Range train robber, Jack Butler, changed his
plea of not guilty to guilty of larceny at Houghton last Monday and was given
sentence of five years, the attorneys for the state in reality admitted that
they were caught in a legal corner and that a straight conviction for highway
robbery was impossible. The man who drove the state's very able attorneys into
this legal corner was Myron J. Sherwood, counsel for Butler, and city attorney
of Marquette. Mr. Sherwood is a graduate from the newspaper ranks, and went from
the staff of the Daily Mining Journal into the practice of law only a little
over a year ago.
Under the laws of Michigan the
essence of the crime of highway robbery is the taking of money or goods by force
and arms. The prosecution having involved the messenger, Dominick Hogan, in the
successful plot to rob the express car, Mr. Sherwood at once asserted that Hogan
knew he was to be robbed, therefore Hogan was not put in fear by the robbers;
therefore there was no force, no assault on Hogan, and consequently no robbery,
but simply larceny. Hogan, having consented to be assaulted by Butler and King,
could not have been assaulted in any legal sense, and hence the crime committed
was not highway robbery, the essence of which is taking by violence.
The able counsel for the state
perceived the legal point, back of which there are hosts of decided cases, and
saw their only chance was to convict Butler of the lesser crime of larceny. This
was the best that Butler's counsel could expect, and he undoubtedly advised his
client to plead guilty to that charge and save further delay and trouble. The
lawyers on both sides are industriously saying nothing at present, but there is
no doubt that Butler's plea of guilty and sentence of five years was based on
some such understanding as here indicated.
There is little doubt that the other
cases will have about the same termination. ["]
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WILL
RUN ITS OWN CARS.
Last Tuesday night the St. Paul road
began running its own sleepers on Milwaukee & Northern line, which has
heretofore had Pullman service. The St. Paul company took advantage of the fact
that the Pullman company was running shabby cars on the road to order its own
substituted "while the Pullman cars are undergoing re pairs and until
further notice."
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number
32
[Saturday, November 18, 1893], page 5, column 2
Those handsome new chair cars on the St. Paul road "fill a long felt
want," and are destined to make that road more popular with the traveling
public than ever.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number
33
[Saturday, November 25, 1893], page 1, column 5
KING
GETS FIVE YEARS.
Acting on the advice of his attorney,
Jack King withdrew his plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty last Saturday, and
was sentenced to five years at hard labor in the branch prison. He was taken to
Marquette Tuesday.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number
33
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[Saturday, November 25, 1893], page 5, column 1
The noon accommodation train on
the Chicago & North-Western road has been discontinued.
...
A passenger coach is now attached to
the freight train which leaves here at 7 p.m. for Champion on the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul.
...
Conductor Donnelly, who was so badly
injured in a smash-up on the St. Paul road some months ago, is again able to be
on duty, coming up Tuesday afternoon on his first run.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number
33
[Saturday, December 9, 1893], page 1, column 3
FIFTEEN
MILE EXTENSION.
The Quinnesec Logging company has
decided to build a fifteen mile extension to their railroad, and the survey for
the same was completed last Saturday by Engineer McCallum. The extension will be
in [a] northwesterly direction through a heavy tract of pine. Work on the same
will commence as soon as possible in the spring.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number
33
[Saturday, December 9, 1893], page 1, column 4
MENOMINEE
& NORTHERN.
This looks like business. The
Menominee Leader announces that President Bagley, of the above railroad, has let
the contract for the ties, and they will be gotten out this winter.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number
38
[Saturday, January 13, 1894], page 1, column 4
CUT
TO PIECES.
----
John Bigelow, a Young Man, Falls Under the Cars at Sagola.
John Bigelow, a young man who had an
excellent standing with acquaintances, was run over and literally cut to pieces
by a freight train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road at Sagola last
Tuesday afternoon. Bigelow had been employed in Fred Gage's camp until
operations suspended and had left Iron Mountain the morning of the accident for
Ewen, where he expected to secure another situation. He was nineteen years of
age and a resident of Mill Centre, Brown county, Wisconsin. The remains were
brought to this city and his parents notified of the accident.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number
38
[Saturday, January 13, 1893], page 8, column 4
THE
SCHLESINGER ROAD.
----
The I. Stephenson Company Bring a Suit to Eject It.
Escanaba dispatch to the Detroit
Evening News: The I[.] Stephenson Co. has
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commenced
suit in circuit court to eject the Escanaba, Iron Mountain & Western Rail
road company, better known as the "Schlesinger road," from the land
occupied by that company for railway yards and dock purposes. When the road was
completed it was transferred to the Chicago & North—Western Railway
company, and has been operated by the latter ever since, but only during the
seasons of navigation. The I. Stephen son company, who donated the land and
water front to the Schlesinger syndicate, did so with the strict understanding
that the line would be operated continuously, and they sold several hundred
lots, mostly to poor people, who thought they saw an opportunity for a good
investment.
It was generally believed that the
new road meant a great boom for Escanaba, as it would give this place [a]
competing line of railway. Nobody dreamed that Schlesinger would ever be
anything else than the "iron king" of America, but almost unexpectedly
the Chicago & North-Western company secured control of the new line, and the
result was that those who bought real estate at the terminus suffered a great
financial loss.
The I. Stephenson company will do its
best to see that the Chicago & North Western company will use the
Schlesinger line for something more than a mere sham. There are hundreds of
thousands of dollars invested in improvements on the disputed land, such as
railway yards, a mammoth ore dock, and an extensive lumber dock, etc.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number
42
[Saturday, February 10, 1894], page 1, column 5
WISCONSIN
& MICHIGAN R'Y.
----
Seventy
Miles of Steel Rails Purchased -- Bridges Contracted For.
Marinette Daily Eagle: John Bagley,
president and principal projector of the Wisconsin & Michigan Railway
company, has recently contracted for the purchase of enough steel rails to build
seventy miles of road.-- enough for the main line and all spurs and side-tracks.
The line will extend from the Soo road in Michigan south about five miles to the
old Ingalls, White Rapids & Northern Logging railway, which will become a
part of the route. From the south end of the logging road it will run south to
the Menominee river, crossing and continuing south on the Wisconsin side to the
mouth of the river at Marinette. It is supposed that construction will begin at
the north end and at the river as soon next spring as the weather is
sufficiently settled to admit of profitable work.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number
43
[Saturday, February 17, 1894], page 5, column 2
A Swedish woman, name unknown, jumped from the St. Paul passenger train, near
the Hamilton shaft, on Thursday evening, and escaped without injury.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number
45
[Saturday, March 3, 1894], page 5, column 1
Henry Mascotte had a hand crushed while coupling cars in the St. Paul yard last
Saturday evening.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number
46
[Saturday, March 10, 1894], page 8, column 3
FELL
TO HIS DEATH.
----
Lewis
Curry, a Woodsman, Falls Ninety Feet and is Instantly Killed.
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Last Monday evening Lewis Curry, a woodsman who has
been in the employ of Wright Bros. as foreman for a number of years, either fell
or jumped from the southbound passenger train on the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul road, as it was crossing the Menominee river bridge, and was dashed to
death on the ice ninety feet below.
Curry, who has had charge of a cedar
camp at the Summit during the winter, had been in town all day Monday, and had
imbibed quite freely of intoxicating liquors. In the evening he took the train
for camp, and it is presumed that when the train slowed up at the bridge he
thought his destination had been reached and jumped off. Either this or he
slipped while passing from one coach to another and fell off.
The body was discovered the following
morning by the section crew, directly under the bridge, with his hat three feet
away. The remains were lying in a perfectly natural position, and this fact
coupled with the additional one that there were no marks or bruises on the body,
created a believe [sic - belief] in the minds of many that Curry was the victim
of foul play. At the time these rumors were in circulation it was thought that
Curry had drawn a large sum of money that day and had started to walk to camp.
At the inquest, however, it was shown that the deceased had borrowed twenty-five
cents to pay for his ride to camp and that he was a passenger on the train in
question.
The deceased was a young man about
thirty years of age, and stood high in the estimation of his employers. He
leaves a wife and child residing at Goodman's Siding.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XV, Number
47
[Saturday, March 17, 1894], page 5, column 2
The Wisconsin & Michigan Logging railway has hauled about 40,000,000 feet of
logs for the different Menominee and Marinette mill companies since last fall,
and there are yet upwards of 30,000,000 feet on the landing. The railway logging
company operates three camps besides hauling the logs gotten out by twelve
jobbers.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XVI, Number
9
[Saturday, June 23, 1894], page 1, column 2
THE
WORK OF A MONSTER!
----
FIENDISH
ATTEMPT TO WRECK A C. & N-W. EXPRESS TRAIN.
----
A
Log Containing Five Sticks of Dynamite
Placed
on the Track Between Iron Mountain and Quinnesec.
Last Saturday evening a particularly
fiendish attempt was made to wreck the southbound passenger train on the Chicago
& North-Western railroad, but so care fully was the secret guarded that the
facts did not leak out until some days later.
Some person, or persons, placed a
large log, charged with six large sticks of dynamite, across the track on down
grade a mile south of the city.
A gentleman discovered the log and
succeeded in rolling it clear of the track a few moments before the train
thundered south. Had the engine struck the log the whole train would undoubtedly
have been ditched, and a score or more of passengers would have been hurled into
eternity, the dynamite finishing those that survived the shock.
A number of detectives are now at
work on the case, and it is to be sincerely hoped that they may succeed in
locating the fiends.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XVI,
Number 18
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[Saturday, August 25, 1894], page 1, column 4
A
BAD WRECK.
----
A Twenty Thousand Dollar Smash Near Floodwood Station.
A most disastrous wreck occurred on
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road last Saturday evening near Floodwood,
followed by still another early Sunday morning, and, while no lives were lost,
more than $20,000 worth of rolling stock was destroyed, including two
locomotives, six box cars and the wrecker.
The night was dark and foggy, and the
way freight, manned by Conductor Mc Donald and Engineer Gibson, ran into a herd
of horses lying on the track near Floodwood. The first one scruck [sic - struck]
was knocked clear of the track, but the other three were caught by and rolled
under the engine, ditching it and five cars. Engineer Gibson and his fireman
jumped and escaped with but a few bruises. Brakemen [sic — Brakeman] Launday
had his nose broken.
The wrecking train, manned by
Conductor McConnell and Engineer Snyder, arrived up from Green Bay at an early
hour Sunday morning and went to work. One of the box cars was pulled on the
track and hauled to a siding. In returning Engineer Snyder let his mind stray
from the business in hand, and ran at full speed into the wreck, ditching his
own engine, the wrecker and two more cars.
This made it necessary to send to
Milwaukee for assistance, which delayed matters to such an extent that wreckage
was not cleaned up until Tuesday, when the damaged engines and cars passed down
to the shops.
To enable trains to run it was necessary to build a track around the wreck,
which railroad men pronounce the worse [sic - worst] that ever occurred on this
division of the road.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XVI, Number
20
Saturday , September 8, 1894], page 1, column 4
VILLAINOUS
WORK.
----
Attempt
to Wreck a Passenger Train Near Waucedah.
Last Monday evening as the southbound
passenger train on the Chicago & North Western railroad was approaching
Waucedah it struck a large rock weighing over two hundred pounds, which some
miserable scoundrel had placed between the rails for the purpose of throwing the
train from the track. Luckily the engineer saw it and re versed his engine,
stopping the train in time to avoid any damage more serious than breaking the
pilot and all the brake beams on the coaches. This is the second at tempt at
train wrecking on this division within a few months, and it is to be hoped that
the detectives now at work on the case will succeed in locating the guilty
person or persons.
The
Ranger-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XVI,
Number 20
[Saturday, September 8, 1894], page 1, column 5
TERRIBLE
ACCIDENT.
----
A Train Ditched and Engineer Fred. Olmquist is Killed.
Last Saturday, at noon, freight train
No. 65, on the Ontonagon division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road,
was ditched by a warped rail near Greenland and Engineer Fred. Olmquist was
killed and Stanley Orton, a brakesman, had a leg broken.
The train was running about twenty
miles an hour at the time, and when the dam-
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aged
rail was struck the engine plunged down a ten-foot embankment. Four cars loaded
with logs piled up on top of the engine, wrecking it beyond repair. A number of
the cars also took fire and were totally destroyed, together with the contents.
The trains [sic] consisted of four
log cars, one empty flat, four box cars and the caboose. In the latter were
Conductor Hansell, Mrs. Proctor, a passenger, Brakeman Bert Cane and Fireman
Frank Hart.
When the engine left the warped rails
one could not see a rod ahead. Conductor Hansell at once carried Mrs. Proctor,
who had fainted away, to a place of safety, and then rushed heroically through
the fire to the head of the train.
A passenger train was due in one hour
and it was necessary to flag it or many lives might be lost. Brakeman Cane
started ahead with the flag, but was twice driven back by the smoke and flames,
his face burned and hair scorched. The third at tempt he succeeded, and was soon
out of sight.
Brakeman Orton was found crawling on
the ground towards the caboose, with a broken leg, and carried out of range of
the fire.
Olmquist's body was found under the
apron of the engine, and his death was undoubtedly caused by suffocation. There
were a number of slight burns on the neck, but no other bruises or wounds.
Fearing that Cane might have perished
in his attempt to flag the approaching passenger, Hansell, after rescuing
Olmquist's body from under the burning logs and cars, started on the same
errand. The two men arrived nearly together, just in time to save the crowded
train from the fate which befell the freight.
Cane had gone three miles through the
wood to make half a mile, expecting every moment the flames would catch his
clothes and give him a terrible death.
The passenger picked up the dead and wounded and returned to Ontonagon without a
mishap.
At the time of the accident Frank
Hart, the fireman, was in the caboose get ting a drink of water, and Stanley
Orton had taken his place on the engine.
The wreckage was brought down on
Wednesday evening.
Olmquist was a resident of Ontonagon
and his associates speak highly of him. This was the third accident that befell
his train within a year.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XVI, Number
21
[Saturday, September 15, 18941, page 1, column 3
RIOTOUS
RAILROAD LABORERS.
The Italians working on the Wisconsin
& Michigan railway near Ingalls struck for more than the 60 cents a day they
were getting. This was refused them and after loading up with whisky they
proceeded to enforce their demand with the aid of some pickaxes that were left
handy for them. With these in hand they made an onslaught on the foremen,
chasing them into the woods, after which they repaired to town and loaded up
some more. Two of the rioters drowned while crossing on logs from a tent saloon
on an island.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVI,
Number 44
[Saturday., February 23., 1895]., page 1., column 6
BOUGHT
A RAILROAD.
----
Wisconsin & Michigan Purchase the Peshtigo Lumber Line.
Marinette, Wis., Feb. 17. -- One of
the largest and most important deals made in this region was consummated
yesterday. The Peshtigo Lumber company sold its rail road running from the
village to Peshtigo Harbor, a distance of seven miles, to the
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Wisconsin
& Michigan railway, the consideration being $50,000. The parties who made
the deal were the Hon. Isaac Stephenson for the Peshtigo company, and Secretary
J.M. Faithorn of the Wisconsin & Michigan. The transfer includes the rolling
stock and dock privileges at the harbor. The Wisconsin & Michigan company
intends to establish ore docks there. Its line will be extended from Faithorn
Junction to the Menominee iron range, twelve miles. Next year a new and direct
route will be opened up. It is also expected that the Ann Arbor road will put in
transfer docks at the harbor. Peshtigo is wild with excitement over the deal,
and a town which was thought to be dead promises to become a flourishing city.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain., Dickinson County, Michigan., Volume XVII.,
Number 9
[Saturday, June 22, 1895], page 1., column 5
LOST
A FOOT.
John Udd, who resides [at] Thistle
Ave., was run over by a loaded car at the Chapin mine last Tuesday afternoon and
had his foot smashed so badly that it had to be amputated.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain., Dickinson County, Michigan., Volume XVII.,
Number 10
[Saturday, June 29., 1895]., page 1., column 6
STEALING
FROM CARS.
----
Three
Young Men Arrested Charged With That Offense.
John Vivian, Benjamin French and
----- McCarthy, three well-known young men, were rounded up by the police last
Saturday night, charged with feloniously entering and stealing goods from the
cars of the Chicago & North-Western company. McCarthy, it is alleged in the
complaint, stole from a car a box of groceries, which a Green Bay house was
shipping to a Crystal Falls customer, and a portion of the consignment was found
in his possession. He .had his examination before Justice Miller last Monday and
in default of bonds was sent to Menominee jail to await trial at the next term
of the circuit court. Vivian and French are alleged to have exhibited a
preference for oranges. Justice Miller considered the evidence sufficient to
send the case to Judge Stone's court for trial, and Vivian and French gave bonds
in the sum of $500 each for their appearance.
The
Range-Tribune., Iron Mountain, Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII,
Number 13
[Saturday, July 20., 1895], page 1, column 2
CIRCUIT
COURT DOINGS.
----
The
Car Thieves Sentences to One Year at Hard Labor.
The Dickinson county circuit court
convened at the usual hour last Monday morning with Judge Stone on the bench,
and there was a steady grind until Wednesday, when an adjournment was taken.
...
John Vivian, Daniel French and George
McCarthy also pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing goods from the cars of
the Chicago & North-Western, and Judge Stone, after giving them some
fatherly advice, sentenced them to one year at hard labor in Marquette prison.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII.,
Number
15 Saturday., August 3., 1895]., page 8., column 5
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FATAL
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Joseph Duke and Eugene Webster,
employes of the Chicago & North-Western, were instantly killed in a railroad
accident at Hermansville last Saturday evening. The locomotive was struck by a
flat-car coming down grade, and was thrown into the ditch crushing the two men
to death.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII.,
Number
18 [Saturday., August 24., 1895]., page 1., column 5
THANK
YOU.
The Chicago & North-Western
railroad company now maintains flagmen at the Chapin, Brown, Ludington, Hughitt
and B street crossings. This is what the people have been contending for, for
some time, and the concession is thankfully received.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan., Volume XVII,
Number 19
[Saturday., August 31, 1895]., page 1., column 2
CONDEMNED
THE WELL.
Health Officer Crowell has condemned the well at the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul depot and pronounced the water poisonous. Several cases of typhoid
fever are attributed to use of water from this well, and, as it has been quite
generally used by employes of the company and the people of the neighborhood, we
may expect to hear of others. Repeated analyses by experts have established the
fact the water sup plied by the Water company is absolutely pure, and there can
be no excuse for the continued use of well water, which is certain to contain
the germs of some disease. The moral is obvious.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XVII, Number 23
[Saturday, September 28, 1895], page 1., column 2
INTO
THE RIVER.
----
A
Landslide Causes Another Wreck on the North-Western Road.
Between seven and eight o'clock last
Saturday night, a westbound freight train on the Chicago & North-Western,
was wrecked by a landslide at Jumbo Siding, eight miles west of Stager Junction.
The engine and four freight cars went over the embankment and landed in the
Brule river, a distance of one hundred feet from the track. Engineer Hall and
Firemen [sic - Fireman] Morgan went down with the engine, but miraculously
escaped with out [sic] a scratch, and are none the worse for their involuntary
bath. Several other cars were derailed and the track badly torn up, but the
demage [sic - damage] was soon repaired by the wrecking crew, which reached the
scene the same night. The engine and cars were fished out of the river several
days later in a badly demoralised [sic] condition. The landslide was caused by
the heavy rains. Had it occurred half an hour sooner the evening passenger train
would have gone down the embankment and many lives would have been lost.
The same evening a tail-end collision
occurred near Sturgeon. The caboose was smashed to splinters and an engine and
several ore cars thrown into the ditch. No one hurt.
----
In this connection it is interesting
to relate that an inmate of one of the hospitals here is of the firm opinion
that the four or five wrecks, which have co-
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curred
on this division of the Chicago & North-Western within the past ten days,
are the direct result of his prayers. He was injured on the road recently, and,
the claim agent refusing to award him any damages, he has employed his time in
praying that the company might meet with all sorts of haps and mishaps. Supt.
Fitch should endeavor to effect a compromise with the fellow before his division
is wiped out of existence.
The
Range-Tribune., Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan, Volume XVII.,
Number
24 [Saturday., October 5, 1895]., page 1, column 3
RAILROAD
NEWSITES.
----
The
St. Paul Company Will Build to the Lower Quinnesec Falls.
The management of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad have [sic] decided to build a branch to the
big paper mill plant at the Lower Quinnesec Falls, and construction work will
commence as soon as the necessary surveys are made. The branch will be less than
ten miles in length, but it will cost quite a large sum, owing to the heavy
grades encountered. It will leave the main track at a point near the Summit. It
is evident that the company does not intend to forever remain at the mercy of
the Chicago & North-Western road.
----
The wrecking crew returned here last Tuesday morning and has been employed
nearly all the week in picking up the demolished locomotives and cars at River
Siding. One locomotive is beyond repair.
----
The express cars on this division of the Chicago & North-Western have been
equipped with new burglar-proof safes.
----
Peter Arnold, engineer on one of the locomotives that were demolished near
Antoine recently, is as cool as a cucumber, no matter what the circumstances
surrounding him are. On this occasion, when he looked ahead and saw the
headlight of John Cassidy's locomotive approaching his iron horse from around a
curve, both going at the rate of twenty miles an hour, his first thought was for
his fireman, who was on the tender breaking coal. He deliberately walked to the
fireman's side, and taking him by the arm led him to the cab and pointed to the
light ahead, not a word being spoken by either. After his fireman had jumped Mr.
Arnold followed him, and none too soon either, for the heavy-laden ore cars
commenced chasing them off the right of way as soon as they struck terra firma.
--Escanaba Iron Port.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII.,
Number
26 [Saturday, October 19., 1895]., page 1., column 6
GREAT
NERVE.
----
Sneak
Thieves Raid a St. Paul Train Thursday Night.
Thursday evening, while the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul southbound passenger train was standing at the depot
here, two nervy sneak thieves entered tho [sic - the] first-class coach and
stole there from two grips and an overcoat, the property
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of
Ira Whitney, the well-known traveling man. The act was witnessed by a number
of passengers, who state that the men raised the
window and passed the grips and coat out, and the coolness shown by them lead to
the belief that Mr. Whitney had sent some one from the hotel after them. The
straps of one of the grips were found near the depot. There is no clue to the
thieves, and they have probably made their escape.
The city seems to be in possession of
thieves and thugs, and the people should take measures to relieve the community
of their presence.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII,
Number 27
[Saturday, October 26., 1895]., page 1., column 4
WEAR
GUNS.
The American Express company
messengers on this division of the Chicago & North-Western now look like
cowboys. An order was recently issued compelling them to carry huge revolvers
belted to their waists while on their runs.
The
Range-Tribune. , Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII.,
Number
27 [Saturday., October 26., 1895]., page 1, column 6
CUT
TO PIECES.
----
Charles
Dahl, a Lumberman, Horribly Mangled by a Train.
The remains of Charles Dahl, a
lumberman, were brought to Iron Mountain last Thursday morning in a cracker box
by the section crew of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad. He had
been literally cut to pieces, and the head was smashed to a pulp. Dahl was
employed in Nelson LaPlant's lumber camp at the Summit. He had spent Monday and
Tuesday in town and left here on Wednesday for the camp in an intoxicated
condition. Arriving at the camp, he had some trouble with the fore man and was
discharged. At two o'clock in the afternoon he left, the camp to walk to Iron
Mountain. He was intoxicated at that time and had a supply of liquor on his
person. It is the general opinion that, by the time he reached this side of the
river, he had become too intoxicated to navigate and went to sleep on the track,
when he was run over by the south-bound passenger train. The remains were
discovered by a couple of hunters. Dahl came here a short time ago from
Marinette. Coroner Cudlip held an inquest yesterday and a verdict was rendered
in accordance with the above facts.
The
Range-Tribune., Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII,
Number
28 [Saturday., November 2., 1895]., page 1., column 4
C.F. DUTTON, who built the Milwaukee & Northern railroad into Iron Mountain,
is now conducting a large farm near Wausaukee, and is proving a most successful
granger. He is pleased with the life, and probably will never return to
railroading.
The
Range-Tribune., Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII,
Number
28 [Saturday., November 2., 1895]., page 1., column 5
The Chicago & North-Western have established a station at Loretto.
The
Range-Tribune., Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII.,
Number
30 [Saturday., November 16., 1895]., page 1., column 5
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Alonzo
Harding, the Chicago and North-Western brakeman who was injured in [a] wreck
near Crystal Falls recently, died on Tuesday. He was injured internally.
...
The extension of the Chicago and
North-Western road from the Pewabic to the Millie and Walpole mines, has been
fully decided upon, and the survey was completed this week. This will give the
company a loop line around the eastern part of the city.
...
Charles Hatch, the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul baggageman, telegraphed to Justice Bergeron that he was guilty of
the charge of accepting deer for shipment without coupons attached, and he was
assessed ten dollars and costs. J.M. Clifford paid the assessment.
The
Range-Tribune. , Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII,
Number
30 [Saturday., November 16., 1895]., page 1., column 6
Deputy Game Warden Avery was assulted [sic - assaulted] by the express messenger
and baggageman on the Chicago & North-Western southbound train last Saturday
evening while in the performance of his duty. He came out of the scrimmage with
flying colors and a bruised knee. Avery says he is going to have his assail ants
arrested, but he hasn't caught them yet. On the other hand the railroad men say
they have orders to shot [sic - shoot] the first man that attempts to enter the
express and baggage car between stations, and claim they were justified in
giving the warden a warm reception.
The
Range-Tribune. , Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII.,
Number
31 [Saturday., November 23., 1895]., page 1., column 2
COMING
NORTH.
----
Wis.
and Mich. May Extend Next Year -- Four More Car Ferries.
The Wisconsin & Michigan railway
system will surely be extended to the iron region next year, said an official of
that road this morning to an Eagle reporter. The promises of business from that
region for the new line will necessitate the construction of four or six new car
ferries also. It will be the shortest and most available route to the
manufacturing plants of Chicago. The business on the line this summer since the
car ferries started have [sic] been more than the company could handle and many
cars have been refused. Wheat is now standing on the sidetrack at Bagley
Junction awaiting shipment to Chicago. That the projectors of the new road knew
what they were doing seems more evident every day.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain., Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XVII,
Number 33
[Saturday, December 7, 1895]., page 1, column 5
THE
BLOCK SYSTEM.
----
Now Being Installed on This Division
of the St. Paul Railroad.
W.J. Soule, chief of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul telegraph system, is now engaged with a crew of men in
putting in the block system of signals on this division. The signal station was
put in here on Monday and Tuesday last, and the men are now working north toward
Champion and Ontonagon. The block system will permit of [sic] the handling of
trains with a much greater degree of safety in the future and tail-end
collisions will become things of the past. For instance, if there were two
southbound trains at this station, No. 1 would have to reach
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Summit
before No. 2 would be released and permitted to go on its way. Thus the trains
would be kept one station apart until their destination was reached. The system
will necessitate the establishment of telegraph stations at Summit [and] at
Traders Junction, with night and day operators, and the employment of night men
at only way stations.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XVII,
Number 36
[Saturday, December 28, 1895], page 1, column 2
WHISKY'S
WAGES.
----
One
Man Killed and Two Others Badly Injured Near Balsam.
Three Polanders -- Joseph Denkensky, John Powlak and Frank Wachowsky -- all
under the influence of liquor, laid down on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul track near Balsam last Sunday morning to sleep off their jag. In
consequence of their indiscretion, Denkensky is dead, Powlak is so badly injured
that his recovery is not expected, and Wachowsky will require medical attendance
for some weeks.
The men were employed in one of the
lumber camps in that neighborhood. They had spent the night in drinking, and
were on their way to Amasa for another sup ply of liquor. They were struck by a
special northbound freight train, which left here last Saturday night in charge
of Conductor Beech.
The accident occurred at about 7:30
o'clock in the morning, one mile from Balsam. The timber is very heavy at this
point, and the weather being very foggy, made it impossible for Engineer Elliott
[to] see any great distance in advance of his engine. When the men were
discovered asleep on the track it was too late to bring the train to a
standstill, though running at a low rate of speed. Denkensky was the first man
struck, and he was lying directly across the track. He was cut to pieces. Powlak
was only partly on the track and he had both legs ground to a pulp. Wachowsky
was lying near Powlak and when the cowcatcher struck Powlak he was thrown to one
side and in this way escaped with but few bruises. The body of Denkensky and the
injured men were taken to Amasa, where they were cared for at the expense of the
railroad company. Denkensky and Powlak came from Stiles Junction and Wachowsky
from Pulaski, Wisconsin.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII, Number
38
[Saturday., January 11., 1896]., page 1, column 3
AFTER
THE RAILROADS.
----
They
Must Maintain Flagmen at the Principal Street Crossings.
At the Monday evening meeting of the common council Alderman Karkeet introduced
an ordinance making it compulsory for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and
Chicago & North-Western railroads to maintain flagmen at the Fleshiem,
Brown, Ludington, Hughitt, A and B street crossings forthwith, and at any other
crossing which the council may designate after ten days notice has been given.
The ordinance also provides that it shall be unlawful to permit any locomotive,
train or car to stop and remain standing, nor to switch back and forth so as to
cause obstruction to the passage of vehicles and persons for a longer period
than five minutes.
Also, that the council may direct the
companies to maintain lights at the several crossings, the same to be kept
burning the entire night.
For violation of the section in
relation to flagmen a fine of $50 is provided for. For violation of the other
provisions a fine of $5 per day is the limit named.
The ordinance was adopted by a vote
of six to one, and takes effect on the
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first
of February.
The ordinance is a good one and we
hope it will be rigidly enforced.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XVII,
Number 38
[Saturday, January 11, 1896], page 5, column 3
The work of equipping this division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
road with the block system has been completed, and as soon as the rules have
been pre pared it will be placed in operation. This will necessitate the
employment of a dozen or more telegraph operators.
The
Range-Tribune., Iron Mountain, Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII.,
Number
39 [Saturday., January 18., 1896]., page 1., column 6
LARGE
LOCOMOTIVES.
The new passenger locomotives being
put on the various divisions of the Chicago & North-Western, [sic] road are
said to cost the company $15,000 each delivered. They stand fifteen feet high
and weigh ninety tons each. Several of these monsters are now in use on the
peninsula division.
The
Range-Tribune. , Iron Mountain., Dickinson County, Michigan., Volume XVII.,
Number
40 [Saturday., January 25., 1896]., page 1., column 3
FOR
SAVING LIVES.
----
Appliances
Being Put on the St. Paul Road's Rolling Stock.
The shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul are now engaged in equipping
the rolling stock with the safety appliances called for by the inter-state
commerce act. The law requires that all cars shall be fitted up with automatic
couplers, and that all trains be controlled by air brakes by January 1st, 1898,
its object being to do away with the necessity of employes going between cars to
make couplings or riding on the top of moving trains. The St. Paul road has
equipped 35 per cent. of its cars with air brakes and 40 per cent. with
automatic couplers up to the present time. When the law was passed there was no
suitable coupler on the market and the work has not been hurried until recently.
A new coupler, the Hien, has been adopted and is being applied to 250 cars a
month. The system of signaling will go into use next Monday, it is now expected.
The
Range-Tribune. , Iron Mountain., Dickinson County, Michigan., Volume XVII,
Number
41 [Saturday., February 1., 1896], page 1., column 2
THE
DEPOT WRECKED.
----
Result
of a Collision at Pembine Last Wednesday Morning.
Last Wednesday morning, a bad wreck occurred at Pembine Junction, delaying the
morning passenger train several hours. A log train on the St. Paul road ran
through a Soo Line special freight, which was standing on the crossing. The
engine and a number of cars were derailed and badly smashed. One of the cars
jumped onto the platform and plunged into the depot. The night operator,
thinking the world had come to an end, dove through a rear window, taking the
sash with him, and was badly cut around the neck. The telegraph connections were
all broken and confusion reign ed supreme. The engineer and fireman on the St.
Paul train jumped in time to avoid injury. The track was cleared sufficiently
for trains to pass at ten o'clock. Car-
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penters
are now at work repairing the depot. The accident is chargeable to the
carelessness of both train crews.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XVII.,
Number 41
[Saturday, February 1, 1896], page 1, column .3
COLLISIONS
IMPOSSIBLE.
----
The Block System Now in Operation on the St. Paul Railroad.
Last Monday afternoon at exactly one o'clock, the Lake Superior division of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, 238 miles in length, was for the
first time operated under the block system. The placing of the necessary
apparatus was completed some weeks ago, but it was deemed best not to put the
system in operation until the operators had been thoroughly drilled, which
required some little time.
The blocks are on an average about
six miles apart, which requires the maintenance of night and day telegraph
operators at the end of each block. Only one train can occupy the line between
two blocks at one time. While the train occupies this stretch of track the
blocks at each end are locked so that trains following cannot pass until the
other train has passed the next block and six miles of track are unobstructed.
Thus a train between blocks has the exclusive right of way, and is in no danger
of plunging into another on some sharp curve. Should a train be derailed, or any
other accident happen, it is not possible for any train to pass the blocks until
the track is clear.
The form of signal used is the
double-arm semaphore, which consists of a mast with two arms near the top, one
on each side. A horizontal position of the arm signifies danger and is a signal
to stop, while a vertical position of the arm indicates that the track is clear
and that the train may proceed safely. In the night lights are displayed, a red
light indicating danger while a white light indicates a clear track.
The normal position of these signals
is at "danger," where they always remain unless held at
"clear" by the operator. When a train approaches one of these signals
if the track is clear to the next station the signal is changed to
"clear." When the train passes it resumes its position of
"danger" and is held there until the train which is on that block
passes out of it. Only in certain cases and upon the issuance of a written
permit can more than one train at a time occupy one of these blocks.
The placing of the system in
operation, and the employment of some thirty or forty additional operators, has
cost the company a large sum of money, but the change is one that will be
thoroughly appreciated by the traveling public, as it removes all danger of
collisions of all kinds.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain., Dickinson County, Michigan., Volume XVII.,
Number 43
[Saturday, February 15, 1896]., page 1, column 3
CHAPTER
OF ACCIDENTS.
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Brakeman
Max Jaeger Loses an Arm and is Hurt Internally.
Last Monday morning, while engaged in coupling cars near D shaft, Max Jaeger, a
Chicago & North-Western brakeman, met with an accident which resulted in the
amputating of his right arm near the shoulder. The cars he was attempting to
couple were loaded with ties and when they were shunted together the end stakes
broke, permitting a number of the ties to topple over on to Jaeger, crushing him
to the track, with his right arm over the rail. He was taken to St. George's
hospital,
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where
the operation was performed. Dr. Crowell says that Mr. Jaeger is very poorly,
and he fears that the man is badly injured internally. He is about twenty-seven
years of age, a resident of the second ward, and has a wife and two small
children.
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A
NEW PASSENGER DEPOT.
Supt. Minturn, of the St. Paul road,
has promised Agent Clifford a fine brick and stone passenger depot in the
spring. It may be located in the vicinity of Ludington stree[t].
The
Range-Tribune. , Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII.,
Number
43 [Saturday., February 15., 1896]., page 1., column 5
FLAGMEN
AT THE CROSSINGS.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
now maintains flagmen at Brown, Fleshiem, Ludington, Hughitt and B streets. An
electric bell, which will ring vigorously upon the approach of trains, will be
placed at the A street crossing. It is probable that the North-Western will
maintain much the same service.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII.,
Number
44 [Saturday., February 22., 1896]., page 1., column 3
AN
IRON-CLAD ORDER.
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The C. & N.-W. Will Discharge Men for Using Intoxicating Liquors.
The Chicago & North-Western railway officials have issued an iron-clad order
to the effect that in the future an employe indulging in intoxicating liquor, on
or off duty, will be promptly discharged. The idea is that a man who will
indulge in the drink habit while off duty, will be very likely to do so slyly
while on duty, hence the iron-clad order which contemplates the protection of
life and property both of the public and company. The traveling public will
endorse the order -- and so will a majority of the employes.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII.,
Number
46 [Saturday, March 7., 1896]., page 1., column 2
HEADLIGHT
FLASHES.
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Chicago & North-Western architects are now
preparing plans for a handsome eating-house and hotel to be erected at once
mid-way between Spaulding [sic] and Powers. When the new eating-house is ready
for business the one at Marinette will be closed.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII.,
Number
48 [Saturday., March 21., 1896]., page 1, column 6
A
SAD ACCIDENT.
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J.P.
Devaney Falls from a Car and Fractures His Skull.
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Yesterday morning, J.P. Devaney, a switchman employed in the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul yards, met with an accident that may terminate fatally. While
assisting in doing some switching he fell from the top of a box-car, striking
squarely on his head, fracturing his skull. The injured man was conveyed to the
St. George hospital, where an operation was performed to relieve the pressure on
the brain. He was still alive last night, but very low, and Drs. Cameron and
Crowell are not very hopeful of his recovery. Devaney is a very large man,
weighing over 220 pounds, and it is a great wonder he was not instantly killed.
He is a newly married man and a recent arrival here.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII.,
Number
52 [Saturday., April 18., 1896]., page 1, column 2
HEADLIGHT
FLASHES.
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No Extensions, No New Depot, Says Superintendent Minturn.
Division Superintendent Minturn, of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road,
was in the city last Wednesday morning. In conversation with The Range-Tribune
Mr. Minturn expressed the belief that his company, owing to the tightness of the
money market, would build neither the Marquette range or the copper country
extensions this year. For the same reason the fine passenger depot which had
been promised Iron Mountain would not be erected until 1897. The St. Paul
company has a large surplus in its treasury, but it is policy for the executive
committee to expend none in building extensions.
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The Chicago & North-Western company has just promulgated one of the
strictest orders ever given on account of liquor and employment by the company,
says the Escanaba Mirror. The company has several times reinstated men who have
been laid off for drunkenness, and so often has it found the leniency useless
that the following notice has finally been issued: "No member of any
brotherhood or employe of the railroad, engineer, fireman, conductor or brakeman
will hereafter be rein stated and no grievance or grievance committee will be
listened to on behalf of any person who has been dropped on account of such
action. Being seen entering or coming out of a saloon, or even smelling whisky
upon the breath of an employe, will be considered sufficient cause for
discharge."
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain., Dickinson County., Michigan., Volume XVII.,
Number
52 [Saturday., April 18., 1896]., page 1., column 4
THEY'LL
BE GOOD.
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Daniel
French and John Vivian Are Released from Prison.
On Saturday last, Governor Rich caused joy in two Iron Mountain households by
signing an order releasing from the branch state prison at Marquette Daniel
French and John Vivian. French and Vivian were tried and convicted of the crime
of breaking into a Chicago & North-Western freight car and taking there from
a miscellaneous assortment of merchandise, and Judge Stone sentenced them, in
July last, to one year at hard labor in the above named prison. The young men
are released under the provisions of "an act to authorize and regulate the
paroling of convicts." Under this law French and Vivian will remain in the
legal custody and under the control of the governor, and shall be subject at any
time to be returned to prison for any
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reason
that shall be satisfactory to the governor, and at his discretion.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XVIII,
Number 10
[Saturday, June 27, 1896], page 2, column 4
A
CHILD MUTILATED.
As the accommodation train was
backing up to the station at Metropolitan Thurs day noon, of last week, a little
daughter of Angus McKinnon and wife, who had come to the station to meet her
parents, returning from a trip to this city, stepped upon the track barely six
feet from the advancing train. Nobody was near enough to rescue the little one
(she is only three years old,) nor could the train be stopped and the little
child was knocked down and run over by the caboose, one of her legs were [sic]
cut off above the knee and the toes of the other foot crushed. She did not lose
consciousness and when her mother reached her said[,] "Mamma, I was coming
to meet you."
The many friends of Mr. and Mrs.
McKinnon in this city sympathize deeply with them in their terrible affliction.
--Port.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XVIII,
Number 10
[Saturday, June 27, 1896], page 8, column 1
Health Officer Crowell has ordered the destruction of all surface closets [out
houses] in the rare [sic - rear] of buildings on Stephenson avenue. It ought not
be necessary in this enlightened age to coerce people to keep their premises
wholesome when the facilities are at hand to do so, [sic] We hope the health
officer did not forget to include the Northwestern depot in his order. No public
place needs a sewer connection more.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XVIII, Number
10
June 27, 1896], page 8, column 2
Last Friday night, between 9 and 10 o'clock, a tramp who was lying asleep on the
railroad track between East Vulcan and Sturgeon River, was run over by an ore
train and his body so mangled that recognition was impossible. The remains were
gathered and taken to Norway. He was five feet eight or nine inches high and of
dark complexion. A whetstone, comb and an empty tobacco bag was [sic] found in
his pockets.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XVIII,
Number 16
[Saturday, August 8, 1896], page 1, column 5
WRECK
AT THE CHAPIN.
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Two
Trains Attempt to Pass on the Same Track With Usual Results.
Wednesday, just before six o'clock, a
train of ten loaded ore cars was being let down from the C shaft of the Chapin
mine, and at the same time a train of empties was being pushed up from the main
track. It was during the hardest part of the rain, which probably accounts for
the train men not seeing each other in sea son to prevent the collision. The
trains met just back of the Chapin mine office, and a bad smashup occurred. One
of the locomotives was rolled down the embankment and lay bottom up, while
several cars were smashed up and scattered about on both sides of the track. The
other locomotive was also considerably damaged. Fortunately the train men jumped
in time to save themselves and no one was hurt. The wrecking train was put to
work early next morning gathering up the pieces, and
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the
track is now clear.
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KILLED
BY LIGHTNING.
One of the section men working on the
C. M. & St. P. at Channing, named John Poronto, was killed by lightning
Tuesday afternoon while engaged in lighting the switch lamps near the station.
When found he was lying beside the track, his hair was singed and marks of the
fatal stroke were upon his body.
From Coroner Cudlip we learn the
following particulars about the death of John Poronto, the unfortunate section
hand who was killed by lightning at Channing Tues day afternoon. He was about 53
years of age and wore a G.A.R. [Grand Army of the Republic -- Civil War veteran]
badge. Was probably a member of some Wisconsin post. He was lighting the switch
lamps in the station yard and was just about to light the last one when the
fatal bolt struck him. It hit him fair on the top of the head; tore out the
crown of the felt hat he wore, and made a slight mark on his scalp. His hair was
burned, and his left shoulder crushed. Evidently the man was instantly killed.
He leaves two families of children -- four grown up sons and a young wife and
two small children. His remains were taken down on the C. M. & St.
P. Wednesday evening to Coleman for interment.
The
Range-Tribune, Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XVIII,
Number 16
[Saturday, August 8, 1896], page 1, column 6
BADLY
BRUISED.
Terrance O'Brien, a fireman on the C.
& N.W., was squeezed between a box car and the platform at the depot
Thursday and badly bruised about the chest and hips, but no bones were broken.
He was taken to St. George['s] hospital, where he is receiving the best of
attention, and will be ready for duty again before very long.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XVIII,
Number 17
[Saturday, August 15, 1896], page 2, column 2
Terrance O'Brien, who was so seriously injured in the North Western yards last
Thursday, has recovered sufficiently to be out of the hospital. Mr. O'Brien will
leave today for his home in Escanaba, where he will remain until he has fully re
covered from the accident which came so near ending the young man's life.
The
Range-Tribune , Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume XVIII,
Number 47
[Saturday, March 20, 1897], page 1, column 4
WM.
MACK WILL DIE
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Well
Known and Popular St. Paul Brakeman Met with a Fatal Injury Last Night.
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HEAD
SQUEEZED BY CARS.
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Taken
to St. George's Hospital where He Lies Unconscious.
Relatives
Arrived from Antigo. Real Name is MacNamara.
Was
Known as Billy Mack. Head Brakeman for Conductor Havey.
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[From
Wednesday's Daily Tribune.]
Win. MacNamara, a St. Paul brakeman,
known here as "Billy Mack," lies unconscious on a cot in the St.
George hospital suffering from a serious accident met
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