| Ort |
Zeit |
Firma |
Ereignis |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1904 |
Chicago Car Wheel Co. |
Übernahme durch die "Griffin Wheel Company" |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1904 |
E. H. Wachs & Co. |
Charles Wachs, ein guter Mechaniker und Ingenieur, wird Präsident der Gesellschaft. Er erkennt die Bedeutung von Austauschteilen und der vollständigen Dokumentation von allen Teilen, die von der Gesellschaft produziert werden. Somit ist er in der Lage, Ersatzteile für jedes ejmal hergestelle Produkt zu liefern.Der älteste von E. H. Wachs' sechs Söhnen, Charles, tritt in die Firma ein. Er studierte bei Armor Tech in Chicago und lernte dann Mechaniker bei "Filer & Stowell" in Milwaukee. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1904 |
Griffin Wheel Foundry Company |
Übernahme der "Chicago Car Wheel & Foundry Company" an den 43rd und Wood Streets. Sie hat eine tägliche Kapazität von 125 Rädern, ist aber so schlecht ausgelegt, daß sie für einen Ausstoß von 525 Stück ausgebaut wird |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
um 1904 |
Blymyer Manufacturing Co. |
Das Unternehmen verschwindet, vmtl. infolge der Wirtschaftskrise 1903/04 |
| Decatur (Ill.) |
1904 |
William L. Oakes |
William Leonard Oakes, Mitglied der First Baptist Church, heiratet Frl. Lucy Deppe |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1904 |
Boyer Machine Co. |
Verlegung nach Detroit |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1904 |
Packard |
Das Werk bringt den ersten Packard-Vierzylinder hervor |
| Evansville (USA) |
1904 |
A. S. Baker Company |
Eine örtliche Tageszeitung prüft den Gewinnbeteilgungsplan und betrichtet, daß ein Mann, der 600 Dollar verdient, zusätzlich 415 Dollar und 2 Prozent Gewinnbeteiligung erhält, 15 Prozent davon als Bargeld und den Rest als allgemeinden Anteil. |
| Grand Rapids (Michigan) |
1904 |
Fox Typewriter Co. |
Die Schreibmaschine wird mit Dezimalstellentabulator geliefert |
| Hamilton (Ohio) |
1904 |
Hooven, Owens & Rentschler Co. |
Austellung einer Hamilton-Holzwarth-Turbine auf der Weltausstellung in St. Louis |
| Lafayette (Indiana) |
1904 |
Goss, William Freeman Myrich |
Goss wird Doktor des Maschinenbaus der University of Illinois |
| Lansing (Michigan) |
1904 |
Olds, Ransom Eli |
Ranson Olds verläßt die Firma und gründet einige Monate später die Firma Reo in Lansing |
| Lansing (Michigan) |
1904 |
Oldsmobile |
Ranson Olds verläßt die Firma und gründet einige Monate später die Firma Reo in Lansing |
| Manistee (Michigan) |
1904 |
Manistee Iron Works Co. |
Auftrag zur Errichtung einer vollständigen Salzfabrik für eine englische Gesellschaft |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
01.01.1904 |
Pabst Brewing Company |
Tod von Frederick Pabst. Seine Söhne Fred jr. und Gustav treten seine Nachfolge an. |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1904 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Einführung der Ganzstahl-Dreschmaschine |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1904 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 13487 - 14834 (1348 gebaute Einheiten) |
| South Bend (Indiana) |
1904 |
Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company |
Studebaker bringt sein erstes Auto mit Verbrennungsmotor auf den Markt |
| South Milwaukee (USA) |
1904-1907 |
Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredge Company |
77 schienengeführte Dampf-Löffelbagger von Bucyrus arbeiten am Panamakanal zum Aushub von 177 Millionen cbm Erd- und Felsmassen. |
| Springfield (Ohio) |
1904 |
O. S. Kelly Co. |
Tod von Oliver S. Kelly |
| Urbana (Ill.) |
1904 |
University of Illinois |
Goss wird Doktor des Maschinenbaus der University of Illinois |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
18.01.1904 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
H. R. Viot wird zum Verkaufsagenten ernannt. |
| Hamilton County (Ohio) |
29.01.1904 |
---- |
In a head on collision between an eastbound passenger train and a westbound freight train at Culloms station, five and a half miles from the Cincinnati Union station on the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern railroad, at 9:20 o'clock last night, one man was killed and one was probably fatally injured. The passenger train was a local from St. Louis. It was an hour late and was making up time when the accident occurred. The freight was outbound for Louisville and with the orders it had, should have given the passenger train the clear track. J. H. MUSTOCK, of Washington, Ind., engineer of the passenger train, was crushed in his cab and instantly killed. JOHN THOMPSON, of Cincinnati, fireman on the passenger train, had his skull fractured and is supposed to be fatally injured. The crew of the freight train jumped and escaped injury. The passengers were badly shaken up, but none seriously injured. |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
11.02.1904 |
Division Avenue Pumping Station |
Die neue Kirkland-Station geht in Betrieb, und als alte Werk an der Division Avenue wird geschlossen, bis die westlichen Tunnels weiter in den See hinein verlängert sind. |
| Hobart (Indiana) |
20.02.1904 |
---- |
Pennsylvania passenger train No. 6 leaving Chicago about midnight was wrecked early today at Hobart, Ind., forty miles east of Chicago, in a head-on collision with a freight train. Charles Strayer, baggage man, of Chicago, was killed and Mail Clerks Bricker, Bowers, Thomas and two passengers, E. G. Weizenberg and C. F. Haverin, and S. A. Lindner, fireman, of Fort Wayne, were all seriously injured. The baggage car and express car were telescoped and a mail car and both locomotives were badly smashed. A relief train was sent from Chicago and the injured were taken to that city. |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
03.1904 |
Fisher Book Typewriter Co. |
Die Firma geht im März durch Zusammenschluß von "Fisher Book Typewriter Co." und Elliott-Hatch Book Typewriter Co." in "Elliott-Fisher" auf |
| La Porte (Indiana) |
31.03.1904 |
M. & J. Rumely |
Tod von Meinrad Rumely. Nachfolger sind seine Söhne William und Joseph. |
| Norwalk (Ohio) |
03.06.1904 |
---- |
Six persons were killed and a dozen or more badly hurt as the result of a collision between an eastbound fast electric passenger car and a westbound "package freight" car at Wells' Corners, a few miles east of this city, on the Lake Shore electric railroad. The sad accident occurred at a point quite distant from any immediate means of communication, and assistance was sent from Norwalk, where every physician and nurse in the city was called into service and hurried to the place of the accident on a special car. When the injured had been attended to they were placed on a car and brought to this city, where they now are at the St. Charles hotel, the third floor of which has been turned into a hospital. All those who were killed were in the smoking compartment of the passenger car, and death came instantly, the bodies showing no sign of life when the rescuers went to work after they had recovered from the first shock of the accident. The injuies of several of those hurt are so serious that they may result fatally. The cars were smashed to pieces. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
21.06.1904 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Verlängerung der Milwaukee & Muskego Lakes-Linie nach St. Martin's |
| Litchfield (Montgomery, Ill.) |
03.07.1904 |
---- |
Infolge falscher Weichenstellung entgleist auf der Eisenbahnstrecke zwischen Chicago und St. Louis in der Nähe von Litchfield im US-Bundesstaat Illinois ein Expreßzug. Dabei werden 20 Personen getötet, 50 erleiden Verletzungen. |
| Litchfield (Montgomery, Ill.) |
03.07.1904 |
---- |
The Chicago Limited on the Wabash railroad, due in St. Louis at 7 p. m., a half hour late and running fifty miles an hour, was wrecked Sunday night inside the city limits of Litchfield, Ills. The engine ran into an open switch and struck a freight train on a siding. The engine and the first three coaches were piled in a heap across the track, caught fire and were consumed.
It is believed that twenty persons perished in these coaches and that forty were injured. Three of the injured have since died.
The last car on the train a special from Wisconsin was pushed back and saved. Nearly all of the passengers were bound for St. Louis and many of them were delegates to the Democratic national convention. |
| Oakford (Illinois) |
05.07.1904 |
---- |
An accommodation passenger train on the Chicago, Peoria, and St. Louis Railroad was blown from the track at Oakford, Ill., twelve miles north of Petersburg, early this evening, and an express messenger, THOMAS WILLEY, was killed, and a number of passengers were injured.
The train consisted of two coaches, a baggage car and an engine, and all but the engine were hurled from the track down a seven-foot embankment, turning over twice in the descent, and landing in a splintered mass. The accident occurred just a few rods from the bridge over the Benjamin River.
The work of relief began immediately. Owing to the remarkable escape of nearly all of the small number of passengers aboard, those who were injured and pinioned in the debris were speedily rescued and attended to. Relief trains were hurried from Springfield and Havana, and the more seriously injured were taken to hospitals.
The engineer, who escaped injury, said he watched the gathering storm closely as his train sped along, as he feared from the appearance of the clouds that a tornado might result. As the train approached Oakford the clouds suddenly seemed to concentrate and drop, apparently coming directly toward the train.
Realizing that the train would encounter the tornado if it proceeded, the engineer quickly shut off steam and came to a halt. |
| Glenwood (Illinois) |
13.07.1904 |
---- |
Twenty persons were killed and about twenty-five injured tonight in a collision on the. Chicago and Eastern Illinois Rairoad at Glenwood, Ill., twenty-three miles south of Chicago.
The collision occurred between a picnic train from Chicago, which was returning from Moraenee, Ill., and a freight train. The picnic train, was coming north, and the freight was on the southbound track.
A misplaced switch threw the picnic train, running at forty miles an hour, out on the southbound track, and before the engineer could apply the brakes it crashed into the
rear of the freight.
The locomotive, the baggage car and the first coach of the picnic train were demolished.
When the picnic train reached Chicago Heights, four miles beyond Glenwood, where the accident took place, it was switched to the regular south-bound track, and although it was coming north a clear track was given by the operator at Chicago Heights until it should reach Glenwood, four miles away. The train after leaving Chicago Heights gradually increased its speed, and when half the distance between the two stations had been covered it was plunging along at the rate of forty miles an hour.
Just half way between Chicago Heights and Glenwood there is a sharp curve. As the picnic train tore around this on the south-bound track, a freight train was backing from the south-bound to the northbound track. It was partly on both tracks, and no train could have passed it in either direction. The bend is so sharp that the engineer of the picnic train did not see the freight until he was about on it.
The locomotive and the baggage car of the passenger train went through the freight and were piled up in a heap of wreckage on the further side of the switch track. The first coach of the picnic train plunged Into the wreckage and buried itself in a mass of kindling wood. |
| Lansing (Michigan) |
08.1904 |
Olds Motor Works |
Gründung der "R. E. Olds Company" (später: "Reo Motor Car Company"), nachdem sich Ransom Eli Olds im Alter von 40 Jahren zurückziehen wollte und einige amerikanische Geschäftsleute ihn zur Übernahme einer neuen Automobilfirma überredeten. - Olds beendete im Januar die Partnerschaft mit Samuel Smith, da dieser Prestige-Autos bauen will. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
01.09.1904 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Die Milwaukee & Muskego Lakes-Linie wird von St. Martin's zu den Muskego Lakes verlängert. |
| Youngstown (Ohio) |
Okt. 1904 |
Republic Iron & Steel Company, Youngstown Works |
Die Aktionäre genehmigen den Bau eines Schienenwalzwerks |
| Port Huron (USA) |
10.10.1904 |
---- |
Carrying out an oft-repeated declaration that he would never send one of his men where he would not go himself, Superintendent of Terminals ALEXANDER S. BEGG of the Grand Trunk Railway, a brother of MRS. J. H. COPLIN and MRS. A. MARKER of this city, was suffocated yesterday morning in the St. Clair tunnel extending from Port Huron, Mich., under the St. Clair river to Sarnia, Ont., into which he went with other railroad men to rescue from death by coal gas the crew of a freight train which had broken in two and become stalled.
Six men met death in the tunnel, suffocated by gas. Three of them died in attempting to rescue others.
At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon MRS. COPLIN, who lives at No. 107 Baker avenue, received a telegram announcing her brother's death. MRS. MARKER, whose home is at No. 118 Clover street, was at once notified and the two sisters last night awaited details of the accident at MRS. COPLIN'S home. They had sent a dispatch to Port Huron asking if the funeral was to be held at his home there or at his former home, Galion, O., and were awaiting a reply so they might attend. |
| Lansing (Michigan) |
15.10.1904 |
Olds Motor Works |
Das neue REO-Auto kommt heraus. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
Nov. 1904 |
Kroeschell Bros. Ice Machine Co. |
Tod von Albert Kroeschell stirbt am Thanksgiving Day beim Kegeln im Chicago Social Club an einem Schlaganfall |
| Mount Carmel (Illinois) |
30.12.1904 |
---- |
Through the thoughtless meddling of a hotel runner at the little way station at Brown's Crossing, Ill., a head on collision of two passenger trains occurred at an early hour in the morning in which seven persons were killed, two injured mortally and more than a score more or less seriously hurt. The trains were No. 1, eastbound, and No. 2, westbound, on the St. Louis division of the Southern Railway, and the collision took place between Mount Carmel and Mauds, Ill.
Station Agent LINDLEY, at Brown's Crossing, had orders for the eastbound train and set the red lights, requiring the train to stop. He was on the station platform attending to baggage, when the train whistled, and a hotel runner pulled the rope inside the station, drawing up the red light and showing white. The eastbound train went by the station at forty miles an hour, while the agent vainly attempted to attract the attention of the engineer. He immediately notified the officers of the road, but he could not notify the agent at the next station because there was no telegraph operator there.
Engineer BUCHANAN of the eastbound train, knowing he was running without orders, brought his train down to eight miles an hour, after passing the station of Mauds, and was feeling his way carefully when he saw the headlight of the westbound train coming around a curve at the rate of fifty miles an hour, the engineer having orders to pass the eastbound train at Mauds. BUCHANAN and his fireman jumped just as the two trains came together and thus escaped injury.
The impact of the two trains was terrific. The cars of the eastbound train, which had come nearly to standstill, were instantly telescoped and caught fire, while the cars of the westbound train were only telescoped partly and all the passengers escaped without serious injury. Engineer BROWN and Fireman RUTTE were both caught under the burning train and perished in agony in sight of the passengers and train crews, who were powerless to give them aid. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1905 |
Fairbanks, Morse & Co. |
Baubeginn von Kohlegas-Motoren |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
1905 |
Ahrens-Fox Manufacturing Company |
Chris Ahrens, sein Bruder Peter Ahrens, seine Söhne G. Fred and John P. Ahrens, und seine Schwiegersöhne Charles H. Fox und George W. Krapp, lieben den neuen "fire engine trust" nicht sehr, weil er von Bankiers und Rechtsanwälten, und nicht von Feuerwehrgeräteherstellern wie sie selbst geleitet werden. So machen sie Pläne, um ihre Feuerwehrgerätefabrik aus dem "American-LaFrance"-Konglomerat zu lösen. Nach einem mühseligen und sich hinziehenden Kampf, ist die Familie Ahrens in der Lage, ihre eigene Gesellschaft im Sommer 1905 als "Ahrens Fire Engine Company" neu zu organisieren. |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
1905 |
Lane & Bodley Co. |
Tod von Henry M. Lane im Alter von 75 Jahren im Krankenhaus Cleveland |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1905 |
Lane & Bodley Co. |
Tod von Henry M. Lane im Alter von 75 Jahren im Krankenhaus Cleveland |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1905 |
Burroughs Adding Machine Co. |
Umfirmierung aus "Boyer Machine Co." |
| Evansville (USA) |
1905 |
A. S. Baker Company |
Die erste weibliche Beschäftigte, Blanche Devine, wird eingestellt. - Zuvor waren alle Sektretäre männlich. |
| Ferrysburg (USA) |
1905 |
Dake Engine Company |
Personelle Veränderung durch den Tod von George R. Wyman. Er brachte durch seinen Einsatz und seine Ausdauer das Unternehmen zu hohem Ansehen. Dake vereinigt sich mit "Archie Campbell's foundry". |
| Fremont (Ohio) |
1905 |
David June & Co. |
Tod von David June |
| Hamilton (Ohio) |
1905 |
Hooven, Owens & Rentschler Co. |
Hans Holzwarth baut die erste serienreife Gasturbine bei "Hooven, Ownens, Rentschler & Co.". Sie entstand mit der Beratung durch Aurel Stodola |
| Hillsboro (Ohio) |
1905 |
C. S. Bell |
Tod von C. S. Bell. Sein Sohn Charles setzt den Betrieb fort. |
| Lafayette (Indiana) |
um 1905 |
Goss, William Freeman Myrich |
Veröffentlichung von "Bench work in wood, a course of study and practice designed for the use of schools and colleges" |
| Lansing (Michigan) |
1905 |
Olds Motor Works |
Bau einer neuen Fabrik, in der die Montage arbeitsteilig erfolgt. |
| Lansing (Michigan) |
1905 |
Olds Motor Works |
Es werden 5.000 Autos produziert. |
| Lansing (Michigan) |
1905 |
Oldsmobile |
Oldsham wird nach Lansing zurückverlegt |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1905 |
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. |
Reynolds baut eine 5000-PS-Dampfmaschineneinheit mit Bullock-Generator für die Dekorationsbeleuchtung auf der Weltausstellung St. Louis |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
01.01.1905 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Die Züge der Waukesha-Linie fahren in den neuen Endbahnhof an den 3rd und Sycamore Streets "Public Service Building". |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1905 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Eröffnung eines vierstöckigen Bürogebäudes und Endbahnhofs an den 3rd und Sycamore Streets unter dem Namen "Public Service Building" |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1905 |
Milwaukee Solvay Coke Co. |
Die Gesellschaft baut ein Werk und liefert Solvay Gas im Vertrag mit der "Milwaukee Gas Light Company". |
| Muncie (Ind.) |
1905 |
Broderick Co. |
Gründung durch Michael H. Broderick |
| Muskegon (Mich.) |
1905 |
Muskegon Boiler Works |
Bau eines neuen Ziegelgebäudes in der Clay Avenue hinterhalb der Gebäude der alten Kesselfabrik |
| Muskegon (Mich.) |
1905 |
Muskegon Boiler Works |
Der Charakter der Muskegon Boiler Works ändert sich. Stevens entscheidet, daß sein Alleinbesitz nicht länger eine gute Idee ist, und sie wird durch Mr. Stevens, Roy E. Ashley, Samuel C. Eyke, William J. McKinstry, John Callan und Stella J. Stevens eingetragen. |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1905 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 14835 - 16120 (1286 gebaute Einheiten) |
| Toledo (Ohio) |
1905 |
Lozier Manufacturing Company |
Umzug nach Plattsburg |
| Toledo (Ohio) |
1905 |
Lozier Motor Company |
Umzug von Toledo (Ohio) |
| Youngstown (Ohio) |
1905 |
Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company |
Änderung der Firma aus "Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company" in "Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company" |
| Youngstown (Ohio) |
22.04.1905 |
Republic Iron & Steel Company, Youngstown Works |
Das Schienenwalzwerk geht in Betrieb |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
08.05.1905 |
Kroeschell Bros. Ice Machine Co. |
Otto Kroeschell wird seitdem vermißt. Zehn Tage später wird er ertrunken im Chicago River gefunden. Man vermutet, daß er in geistiger Verwirrung ins Wasser gegangen ist. Es gibt keine Anzeichen auf Fremdeinwirkung |
| Flint (Michigan) |
18.05.1905 |
Henry M. Loud's Sons |
Tod von Henry M. Loud im Oak Grove-Sanatorium in Flint (Michigan) |
| Oscoda (USA) |
18.05.1905 |
Henry M. Loud's Sons |
Tod von Henry M. Loud im Oak Grove-Sanatorium in Flint (Michigan) |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
06.06.1905 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
George B. Cox und Joseph Rawson werden zu Directoren ernannt und folgen den Herren W. J. Lippincott and F. E. Smith nach. |
| Davison (Michigan) |
08.06.1905 |
---- |
A fast through train on the Grand Trunk Railroad bound for Chicago from the East was wrecked this afternoon about ten miles east from Flint (Mich.) near Davison by spreading rails, three coaches being ditched.
Mrs. Cora Waltrous of Roxbury, Mass., was, it is thought, fatally injured and ten others were less seriously hurt. They included A. M. Spaulding, Rumney, N.H.; Mrs. Jennie Cook, Roxbury, Mass.; Arthur A. Holmes, Middleborough, Mass.; Michael McMullin, ex-police officer, of Boston, Mass.; Mrs. J. L. Christie, West Newton, Mass., and N. Hamshin, tourist agent, of Boston. |
| Mentor (Ohio) |
21.06.1905 |
---- |
White traveling at a rate of seventy miles an hour the famous Twentieth Century Limited, the fastest long distance train in the world, ran into an open switch at the little town of Mentor, east of Cleveland, at 9:20 in the night, causing one of the most horrible accidents in the history of the Lake Shore road. Nineteen persons are dead as a result of the wreck.
Chief DALEY, general passenger traffic manager of the Lake Shore, says he believes the disaster resulted from someone tampering with the switch. He says after an investigation: The evidence points to a deliberate, malicious attempt, to derail the train.â?
The engine was hurled into the ditch, part of the train was crushed on top of it, and the wreck partly burned. The train was crowded; practically all of its accommodations were taken when it left this city. It was behind time and great speed was being made to make up the time.
A particularly distressing feature of the rescue work was that the injured were so crazed when they were taken from under the mass of wreckage that they could not even reveal their own identity. So far as can be learned the switch was opened and locked open by some party unknown â?? probably a crank â?? and evidently with malicious purposes. Train No. 10, the fast east bound, passed through the switch forty-five minutes ahead of No. 26, and it was all right at that time. It is certain no other train or engine passed through the switch between No. 10 and No. 26. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
21.06.1905 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Die Züge der Muskego Lakes und Kenosha Linie benutzen seitdem den neuen Endbahnhof an den 3rd und Sycamore Streets "Public Service Building". |
| Steger (USA) |
14.07.1905 |
---- |
Three persons were killed and sixteen injured in a collision on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway at Steiger, Ill., to-day between a passenger train from St. Louis and a suburban train. Some of the injured probably will die. The dead are CHARLES HORN of Crete, Ill.; GEORGE EPSTEIN of Chicago, passengers, and JAMES LYKE, engineer of the suburban train.
The cause of the collision is said to have been an open switch which let the through train onto a siding on which the suburban train was standing, and the theory of officials is that the switch was opened by some one either carelessly or with malicious intent. Search is being made for a laborer at Steiger, upon whom suspicion rests. The man disappeared soon after the wreck. A warrant has been sworn out for his arrest. |
| Romeoville (USA) |
18.07.1905 |
---- |
One man was killed, another fatally injured and twenty persons were hurt today, several seriously, in a collision between a southbound construction train with a northbound passenger train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad one and on-half miles north of Romeo, Ill. Killed: WILLIAM KOLK, messenger for Wells-Fargo Express.
Fatally Injured:
DAVID YOUNG, signalman.
The boiler of the passenger train exploded immediately after the collision. The smoking car was telescoped and two other cars were derailed. |
| Lemont (Illinois) |
29.07.1905 |
---- |
The California express on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad leaving Chicago at 10 o'clock went into a ditch tonight at Lemont, a village 30 miles southwest of here. Five people, all of them Italians, were taken from the wreck badly mangled. And although none of them was killed outright it is not thought that they can survive. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
08.08.1905 |
Cream City Iron Works, Filer, Stowell & Co. |
Patenterteilung |
| Vermillion (Ohio) |
13.08.1905 |
---- |
Twelve persons were killed and twenty-five injured early to-day in the collision of a fast east-bound passenger train on the Nickel Place Road with a west-bound freight at Kishman, Ohio, near Vermillion. Eight of the injured will probably die.
The freight engineer's watch, it is said, was slow, and he believed he had eight minutes to get his train off the main track on a siding. The freight train had slackened speed and was about to back on the siding when the passenger train came among at a rate of forty-five miles an hour and dashed into it.
Aside from the engineer, the men killed were all riding in the smoking car. The majority were foreign laborers employed by the Standard Oil Company on their way from Fort Seneca, Ohio, to Brookfield, Ohio. None of the passengers in the smoking car escaped injury.
Engineer POOLE of the passenger train was killed while trying to reach for the air brake, after seeing the headlight of the freight locomotive. His fireman, Haefner, saved himself by jumping.
The high speed of the passenger train threw its locomotive and first three coaches over as the freight locomotive telescoping the smoker and car following. The forward cars of the freight train were splintered.
There was no fire, but the heavy timbers of the wrecked cars pinioned many, until assistance arrived. President Caniff of the Nickel Plate to-day said that, from information in the hands of the officers, the freight had orders to go on the siding at Kishman and await the passage of the passenger train. A rigid investigation is being made. |
| Peoria (Ill.) |
Sept. 1905 |
Avery Manufacturing Machinery Co. |
Tod von Cyrus Avery. Sein Sohn George Luzerne Avery (bisher Sekretär) wird zum Direktor der Gesellschaft, und Georges Onkel, J. B. Bartholomew, wird Präsident. |
| Columbus (Ohio) |
Dez. 1905 |
Columbus Buggy Company |
Übernahme der "Springfield Automobile Company" und deren Konstrukteur C. C. Bramwell |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
18.12.1905 |
Cream City Iron Works, Filer, Stowell & Co. |
Patenterteilung |
| Brook Park (Hartford) |
1906 |
Kissel Motor Car Co. |
Beginn des Automobilbaues |
| Calumet (Michigan) |
1906 |
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company |
Die Kupferproduktion erreicht einen Höhepunkt von 100 million pounds (45.000 metrischen Tonnen) |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1906 |
Griffin Wheel Foundry Company |
Bau einer neuen Fabrik mit einer Kapazität von 500 Rädern pro Tag in der Nähe der Güterwagenfabrik der "Pullman Company" |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1906 |
Illinois Tunnel Company |
Fertigstellung |
| Delaware (Ohio) |
1906 |
Book Electric Typewriter Co. |
Gründung |
| Evansville (USA) |
1906 |
A. S. Baker Company |
Ein dreigeschossiges, feuersicheres Warenhaus wird gebaut. Dieses (und die Maschinenwerkstatt von 1907) sind die ersten aus Gußbeton in Wisconsin. |
| Hartford (Wisconsin) |
1906 |
Kissel Motor Car Co. |
Beginn des Automobilbaues |
| Indiana (Ind.) |
1906 |
Wesley H. Bennington |
Verlegung der Produktion von Kansas-City nach Indiana |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
1906 |
Hetherington & Berner |
Tod des Gründers Benjamin Franklin Hetherington. Sein Sohn Frederick Alexander Hetherington wird sein Nachfolger |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1906 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Das Verwaltungsgebäude "Public Service Building" geht in Betrieb |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1906 |
Pabst Brewing Company |
Einführung von Kapseln anstelle von Korken bei den Bierflaschen |
| Oshkosh (Wisc.) |
1906 |
Molle Typewriter Company |
Das erste Schreibmaschinenmodell wird fertiggestellt |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1906 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 16121 - 18141 (2021 gebaute Einheiten) |
| Toledo (Ohio) |
1906 |
Craig Shipbuilding Co. |
Verkauf an die "American Ship Building Company" und Umbenennung in "Toledo Ship Building Co." |
| Toledo (Ohio) |
1906 |
Toledo Shipbuilding Co. |
Verkauf der "Craig Ship Building Co." an die "American Ship Building Company" und Umbenennung in "Toledo Ship Building Co." |
| Wabash (Indiana) |
1906 |
Honeywell International Inc. |
Gründung der "Honeywell Heating Specialty Company" in Wabash, Indiana, durch Mark C. Honeywell |
| Wood River (Illinois) |
12.01.1906 |
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Pinioned under wreckage resulting from the collision of two Burlington freight trains near Wood Station, Ill., which was made more complete by the explosion of an engine boiler and a car load of powder, Engineer Grover Hinderer of Beardstown, Ill., with his leg crushed and held fast, sawed desperately for forty five minutes and finally freed himself and was pulled out. He was taken to the hospital at Alton and it is believed will recover. Fireman W. A. Anderson was seriously injured, but will probably live. Brakemen Mason, Franks, and George Anderson were imprisoned in the debris and at first were believed to be dead, but finally were rescued not seriously injured. Rescuers were unable to release him Engineer Hinderer and finally passed him a saw, cheering him until her released himself. |
| Grand Rapids (Michigan) |
02.1906 |
Fox Typewriter Co. |
Im Februar kommt die erse Fox Visible-Schreibmaschine heraus |
| Massillon (Ohio) |
05.02.1906 |
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Ralph Frolich, a Pennsylvania section foreman, was hit by a train near Earl's crossing, west of the city, Saturday morning at 9 o'clock and sustained a fracture of his right arm and received several cuts on the face and about the head. He was taken to Mt. Airy hospital and after his injuries had been cared for was taken to his home in Water street. His injuries are not considered of a serious nature.
Mr. Frolich was working with a number of men and stepped from one track to get out of the way of a train and stepped in front of another. He was brought to the city at once and and remained conscious during the trip and his stay at the hospital. |
| South Chicago (USA) |
12.02.1906 |
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A theater train on the Pennsylvania, running at the rate of twenty miles an hour, crashed into a crowded street car in South Chicago last night, instantly killing two persons and injuring twelve. The killed and injured were occupants of the street car. The engine and first coach of the passenger train left the rails and were overturned.
The passenger train was a local, leaving Chicago at 11:34 p.m. for East Chicago, Ind. It was well filled with passengers, who were thrown into a panic by the collision. The street car was hurled into the air, overturned and ground to splinters by the locomotive. The crash came almost without warning, and but few occupants of the street car had an opportunity to leap from the car before it was struck. The passengers of the railway train, however, rushed to the assistance of those imprisoned in the debris and began the work of rescue. Physicians were summoned to aid the injured. The conductor of the railroad train and the crew of the street car were placed under arrest. |
| Janesville (Wisc.) |
15.02.1906 |
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Three trainmen dead, one dying, three injured and six passengers hurt, were the casualties due to a head-end collision between a special freight and a De Kalb passenger train on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad two miles south of Janesville at night. THOMAS LAFFERTY of Baraboo, engineer; JOSEPH MAHER, fireman, Janesville, and Fireman BERMISH of Baraboo are dead.
Conductor R. A. PECK of the freight train is dying. Conductor GEORGE DEVANSA of Janesville was cut about the head and shoulders.
Engineer BRISCOE of Baraboo has a crushed foot. MRS. CROSBY of Sycamore and five other passengers were injured, but not severely. The wreck was due, it is said, to a snow storm.
The wreck was due to a mistake over orders. A special milk was waiting here ready to go south as soon as the through passenger train from DeKalb, Ill., for St. Paul passed. Before the time the through train was due, a local from Belvidere, Ill., arrived and the crew of the milk train supposed this was the train for which they were ordered to wait. The milk train then pulled out for the south. Two miles south of here the passenger train was running north toward Janesville, going at a rate of sixty miles an hour on a straight, well-ballasted track. The two engineers saw the danger before the trains met, but not in time to do more than partically check the speed of their trains. With the crashing of the trains the wreckage took fire, but ws speedily extinguished. The passenger train was comparatively little damaged. It was a heavy train and most of the coaches remained on the track, though the passengers were all badly shaken up.
The trainmen on the milk train were not so fortunate. It was there that most of the fatalities occurred. One body, supposed to be that of the fireman, is still under the wreckage of the two engines. The other two bodies were lifted out of the wreck and with the injured were brought at once to Janesville. |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
15.03.1906 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
W. T. Irwin tritt als Direktor zurück, und Vachel W. Anderson wird zu seinem Nachfolger gewählt. |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
10.04.1906 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
Auf einer außerordentlichen Versammlung der Aktionäre wird beschlossen, das Kapital auf $4,500,000.00 zu erhöhen, aufgeteilt in 2,5000,000.00 Vorzugs- und 2,000,000.00 normale Aktien. |
| Riverton (Illinois) |
22.04.1906 |
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The Wabash fast passenger train No. 3 was wrecked to-day at Riverton, when a switch was turned by a bundle of papers thrown from the car which broke the arm of the switch stand. Five persons were injured. |
| Columbus (Ohio) |
06.1906 |
McCall Automatic Typewriter Company |
Gründung mit 500.000 $ Kapital |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
05.06.1906 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
Auf der Aktionärsversammlung wird H. M. Estabrook zum Direktor als Nachfolger von J. H. Winters gewählt. Der Vorstand setzt sich zusammen aus: E. J. Barney, J. D. Platt, A. M. Kittredge, H. M. Estabrook, George B. Cox, Joseph Rawson, W. H. Doane, Walter St. John Jones und Vachel W. Anderson. |
| West Wheeling (USA) |
18.06.1906 |
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A head-on collision to-day at West Wheeling, a mile south of Bridgeport, between the special train of General Superintendent Loree of the Baltimore & Ohio and a heavily loaded ore train, resulted in serious injury to six men and slight injuries to half a dozen others.
Engineer William Scott of the special will die, and Fireman Frank Davidson may die.
The error of a train dispatcher in the Wheeling office is said to have caused the trains to come together while going at a high rate of speed. A heavy fog prevented the trainmen from seeing lights until too late. |
| La Crosse (Wiconsin) |
07.07.1906 |
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Crushed Under Car Wheels.
La Crosse.---While attempting to jump from a moving train PETER SCHMIDT, aged 22 years, fell under the wheels and was killed. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
22.07.1906 |
Chicago City Railway |
Die State Street Line wird als letzte auf elektrischen Betrieb umgestellt |
| Chardon (Ohio) |
12.08.1906 |
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A car containing 50 persons on the Cleveland & Eastern Traction Line jumped the track to-night, eight miles southwest of Chardon, O., injuring eight and nearly drowning a dozen others in a large stagnant pool into which the car plunged. The car was headed towards this city, going at a moderate speed, but the accident happened so quickly that none of the passengers realized what had happened until they were immersed in the foul water. Not a passenger escaped a wetting and a wild panic prevailed. The passengers and crew of a car following close behind went quickly to the rescue and saved a dozen or more from death. The escape of some of those imprisoned in the submerged car was thrilling. HENRY HOFFLER, living in Chardon, the conductor of the car, received serious internal injuries and may die. The injuries to the others consisted largely of cuts and bruises, some of them of a serious nature. |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
29.10.1906 |
Cincinnati Water Works, Old River Station |
Inbetriebnahme der Dampfpumpen |
| Woodville (Indiana) |
12.11.1906 |
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Ein in östlicher Richtung fahrender Güterzug und der zweite Teil des westwärts fahrenden Personenzuges Nr. 47 stießen zusammen. Der Güterzug stand im Überholungsgleis bei Babcock, um dort die beiden Teile des Personenzuges passieren zu lassen. Im Schneesturm übersah der Lokführer jedoch die grünen Fähnchen auf der Lokomotive des ersten Zugteils und die entsprechenden grünen Lichtsignale waren erloschen. Das Personal des Güterzuges hatte zwar das Pfeifsignal des ersten Zuges vernommen, mißverstand jedoch dessen Bedeutung. Es setzte den Zug in Bewegung, der daraufhin mit dem zweiten Teil des Zuges Nr. 47 zusammenstieß. Feuer brach aus, und auch hier waren wieder viele Opfer Einwanderer, dieses Mal aus Osteuropa. 43 Tote |
| Isle Royale (USA) |
06.12.1906 |
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Schiffbruch im Sturm bei Isle Royale, 1 Toter |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
20.12.1906 |
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At least thirty persons were injured, one of whom, DANIEL KERNAN, a passenger, has since died, in the wreckage to-day of a runaway electric car on Warsaw avenue hill. The injured include:
CATHERINE O'HARA.
J. E. LOWMAN, conductor, may die.
JAMES HALL, motorman.
FRANK GANZEL, may die.
GEORGE WANNIGER.
MR. and MRS. JOHN HENRY.
REV. I. BANTLEY, back broken.
MISS MARTHA BILL, broken leg.
JAMES CORCORAN.
MR. and MRS. BORKEN, both unconscious at hospital.
EDNA and MARTHA LONGDALE.
The motorman discovered at the top of the hill that he had lost control of the car, and tried to use the emergency brakes, but it failed. The car ran away for five blocks, struck a telegraph pole and turned over. The passengers were thrown in the mud. HIRAM LEISTER, a passenger, by operating the brake on the rear platform, reduced the speed on the car materially before it left the track. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1906 |
Griffin Wheel Foundry Company |
In diesem Jahr werden 1.198.000 Eisenbahnräder hergestellt |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1907 |
Chicago Edison Company |
Die "Chicago Edison" wird mit der "Commonwealth Electric" zur "Commonwealth Edison Company" verschmolzen. |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1907 |
Linde Air Products Company |
Carl von Linde etabliert in Cleveland (Ohio) die Gasgesellschaft "Linde Air Products Co." |
| Columbus (Ohio) |
1907 |
McCall Automatic Typewriter Company |
Verlegung nach Xenia, Ohio |
| Columbus (Ohio) |
1907 |
McCall Automatic Typewriter Company |
Umzug von Columbus, Ohio |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1907 |
Detroit Electric |
Beginn des Elektro-Automobilbaues |
| Evansville (USA) |
1907 |
A. S. Baker Company |
Eine dreigeschossige Maschinenwerkstatt und Malerwerkstatt werden gebaut. Maschinenwerkstatt ist neben dem LAgerhaus von 1906 das aus Gußbeton gebaute Gebäude in Wisconsin. |
| Evansville (USA) |
1907 |
Schultz, Human & Company |
Der deutsche Immigrant Ferdinand Holtz übernimmt die "Schultz, Human & Company" und benennt sie um |
| Evansville (USA) |
1907 |
Schultz, Human & Company |
Übernahme durch den deutschen Immigranten Ferdinand Holtz und Umbenennung in "F. Holtz Company" |
| Galion (Ohio) |
1907 |
Galion Iron Works & Mfg. Company |
Gründung durch David Charles Boyd und seine drei Brüder |
| La Porte (Indiana) |
1907 |
M. & J. Rumely |
Edward A. Rumely, ein Enkel von von Meinrad Rumely, kehrt nach Studien in Heidelberg und Oxford nach La Porte zurück und tritt in das Unternehmen ein. |
| Lafayette (Indiana) |
1907 |
Goss, William Freeman Myrich |
Publikation von "High steam-pressures in locomotive service" |
| Lafayette (Indiana) |
1907 |
Goss, William Freeman Myrich |
W. F. M. Goss veröffentlicht "Locomotive performance; the result of a series of researches conducted by the engineering laboratory of Purdue University" |
| Lafayette (Indiana) |
1907 |
Goss, William Freeman Myrich |
W. F. M. Goss wird Dekan am College of Engineering der University of Illinois |
| Lansing (Michigan) |
1907 |
Olds Motor Works |
Es werden 4.000 "Reo"s hergestellt. |
| Manistee (Michigan) |
1907 |
Manistee Iron Works Co. |
Erweiterungsbau südlich des Baues von 1887 an der Nordost-Ecke der Jones und River Streets |
| Mount Vernon (Posey, Ind.) |
1907 |
Keck-Gonnerman Company |
John Keck's Sohn Grover kommt aus Purdue und beginnt bei Keck-Gonnerman eine Automobil-Abteilung. Ihre erste Konzession ist die von Cadillac. Sie handeln mit Marken wie Cadillac, Maxwell, Stanley, Nash, Oakland |
| Pontiac (Oakland) |
1907 |
Oakland |
Beginn des Automobilbaues |
| Port Huron (USA) |
1907 |
Port Huron Engine & Thresher Co. |
Bau von Lokomobilen mit langen Kesseln (9 Fuß lange Rauchrohre), genannt "Longfellows" |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1907 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 18142 - 19562 (1421 gebaute Einheiten) |
| Shelby (Ohio) |
1907 |
Shelby Electric Company |
J. C. Fish Fish kündigt an, daß die "National Electric Company", welche einen beherrschenden Anteil hat, plant, die Fabrik auszuweiten mit dem Ergebnis, daß zusätzlich 125 Beschäftigte, zumeist Mädchen, benötigt würden. Die Gehaltssumme beträgt 2,800 alle zwei Wochen und würde darüber hinausgehen um 4,000, wenn die Erweiterung durchgeht. |
| Urbana (Ill.) |
1907 |
University of Illinois |
W. F. M. Goss wird Dekan am College of Engineering der University of Illinois |
| West Lafayette (USA) |
1907 |
Purdue University |
Publikation von "High steam-pressures in locomotive service" |
| West Lafayette (USA) |
1907 |
Purdue University |
W. F. M. Goss veröffentlicht "Locomotive performance; the result of a series of researches conducted by the engineering laboratory of Purdue University" |
| Xenia (Ohio) |
1907 |
McCall Automatic Typewriter Company |
Verlegung nach Xenia, Ohio |
| Xenia (Ohio) |
1907 |
McCall Automatic Typewriter Company |
Umzug von Columbus, Ohio |
| Fowler (Indiana) |
19.01.1907 |
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At least sixteen persons were killed early to-day when an engineer on a Big Four passenger train ran past a red light and other signals in a fog at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and a minute afterward ran into a freight train coming in the opposite direction. The passenger train known ad the Queen City Flyer, was crumpled up by the impact, the engine being forced through a combination car. Three of the cars were burned, and some of the persons who had been only injured in the collision, were burned to death.
The flyer left Chicago for Cincinnati last night. It consisted of a combination coach, three sleeping cars, and a Big Four private car, occupied by Mrs. C. F. Schaff, wife of the Vice President of the railroad. An important freight train, westbound, was ordered to give way to it at this place, and orders were given to the operator here to notify the engineer of the flyer.
The passenger train came first. It was behind time and the engineer was putting on speed. The operator turned on the red light in the semaphore, but in view of the heavy fog and the recent terrible accident at Washington caused by an engineer's failure to heed a red light he took other precautions. As the express approached he ran out, waved a lantern, and fired several shots from a pistol. He failed to attract attention and the train rushed by and a minute later crashed into the freight train.
The locomotive of the express was telescoped with the combination coach, making a mass of wreckage under which the passengers in the car wedged. Seats were hurled through the roof and coals from the firebox set the debris in flames. Trainmen and others did all they could to rescue those who were in the wreckage, but were compelled to see some persons burn to death. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
11.02.1907 |
Griffin Wheel Foundry Company |
Tod des Gründes Thomas F. Griffin |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
03.1907 |
Nickerson Typewriter Company |
Gründung im März |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
05.1907 |
The Oliver Typewriter Co. |
Die "Oliver"-Schreibmaschine Modell 5 wird ab Mai produziert |
| Truro (Ohio) |
13.05.1907 |
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Dashing through an open switch at Truro station, twelve miles southeast of Columbus today, the West Virginia express on the Ohio Central road was derailed and one man, who was walking along the side of the track, was killed and a number of trainmen were more or less injured. Most of the passengers escaped with a few bruises. Mike Martin, the engineer, who was pinned under his engine, will die as will also Dan Martin, the fireman, and an unknown woman. A special coach holding members of the Red Men going to Marietta was not derailed but a number of the members of the order were slightly injured. The injured are from Columbus. |
| Ferrysburg (USA) |
25.05.1907 |
Johnston Boiler Works |
Stapellauf des ersten Ganzmetell-Personendampfers, der "Mackinac" |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
06.1907 |
The Oliver Typewriter Co. |
Fertigstellung des Gebäudes North Dearborn Street 159 - 167 |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
06.1907 |
The Oliver Typewriter Co. |
Umzug in das Gebäude North Dearborn Street 159 - 167 |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
04.06.1907 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
Auf der Aktionärsversammlung werden folgende Direktoren gewählt: J. D. Platt, A. M. Kittredge, H. M. Estabrook, E. J. Barney, W. H. Doane, George B. Cox, Joseph Rawson, Walter St. John Jones und V. W. Anderson. |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
12.06.1907 |
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Two women were killed and three other persons were seriously hurt in an automobile accident in the northern part of the city today when a Broad Ripple traction car struck and wrecked the automobile of J. P. Himes, at Thirty-eighth street and College avenue.
The dead are:
Mrs. THOMAS LOVE, aged 58 years, of Indianapolis.
Mrs. EMMA GORDON, an aged woman of Indianapolis.
The seriously injured are:
A. J. Himes, of Broad Ripple, a surburb[sic] of Indianapolis; Miss Fay Himes, his daughter; Mrs. B. Kester, of Indianapolis. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
17.06.1907 |
Harley-Davidson |
Gründung der Firma durch die drei Davidson-Brüder William, Walter und Arthur sowie William Harley. Letzterer ist der führende Kopf bei der Konstruktion der Motorräder. Das erste wurde schom im Sommer 1903 gebaut. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
03.07.1907 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Die Waukesha Beach Line wird bis Oconomowoc fertiggestellt. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
03.07.1907 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Verlängerung der Muskego Lakes Line zum Phantom Lake |
| Salem (Michigan) |
20.07.1907 |
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Thirty-one persons were killed and more than seventy injured, many of them seriously, when a Pere Marquette excursion train bound from Ionia to Detroit crashed into a west-bound freight train in a cut located at a sharp curve of the Pere Marquette Railroad about a mile east of Salem.
The passenger train of eleven cars, carrying the Pere Marquette shop employes of Ionia and their families on their annual excursion, was running at high speed, probably fifty miles an hour, down a steep grade. It struck the lighter locomotive of the freight train with such terrific force as to turn the freight engine completely around. The wrecked locomotives lay side by side, both headed eastward.
Only a few of the freight train cars were smashed. Besides the two wrecked locomotives, however, six cars of the passenger train lay piled up in a hopeless wreck. Four of the passenger cars remained on the track undamaged and were used to convey the dead and injured to Ionia. One coach had only its forward trucks lifted off the rails.
The two cars next ahead of these were telescoped. The next car forward stood almost on end after the wreck, its forward end resting on the roadbed and the rear end high in the air upon the two telescoped cars that had been following it. Two coaches were thrown crosswise on the track and lay suspended from bank to bank of the cut five or six feet above the rails. Of the baggage car not enough remained to show where it had been tossed. Portions of it and of the locomotive tenders and freight cars were piled in an indescribable mass of debris. The accident apparently happened because of a hand-written schedule on unlined paper whose columns did not line up, and were misread by the freight crew. The Interstate Commerce Commission investigation also cited various safety violations including use of pine instead of oak for car walls and an omission of steel plates required for mail cars. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
01.08.1907 |
Griffin Wheel Foundry Company |
George Francis Griffin wid zum Vizepräsidenten und Sekretär ernannt |
| Stowell (Wisconsin) |
26.08.1907 |
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Railroader Saved Little Girl at Risk of His Own Life.
President Roosevelt has awarded a railroad life-saving medal to EDWARD A. MCGRATH, of Milwaukee, a station agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, who, on August 26, 1907, saved the life of EMMA HUMMICH [oder: Hamich?] a six-year-old girl.
While MCGRATH and a number of other persons were standing on the station platform at Milwaukee, the little girl attempted to cross the track in front of an approaching train. MCGRATH, who is a cripple shouted to her to stand back, but she failed to heed his warning and was in imminent danger of being run down. MCGRATH ran to her aid, and at great risk to himself succeeded in lifting her from the track just as the train rushed by. Eye-witnesses, according to reports received in Washington, declare that it was a miracle either escaped death. MCGRATH was struck by the pilot beam of the engine, but escaped serious injury. The child was uninjured.
After an investigation, the Interstate Commerce Commission, acting under a law passed by Congress, recommended that McGrath be awarded a medal of honor. |
| Edgerton (Wisc.) |
12.09.1907 |
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STRUCK BY A TRAIN.
Woman Near Edgerton Is Probably Fatally Injured.
(Special to The Northwestern.)
Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 13.---A Journal special from Janesville says: MRS. S. ZAHN aged thirty-five., wife of a workingman and mother of two children, was struck by a Milwaukee-bound passenger train near Edgerton yesterday and received injuries that will probably prove fatal. |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
17.09.1907 |
Vaile & Kimes |
Erteilung des US-Patents Nr. 866591 A an Hugh W. Kimes auf einen "fluid motor", eine mit Druckwasser betriebene Pumpe, die wie eine Duplex-Dampfpumpe arbeitet. |
| Bellaire (Ohio) |
28.09.1907 |
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Eight persons were killed and a score injured at Bellaire, Ohio, at 3:15 this afternoon, when the Chicago and Wheeling express train on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad crashed into a freight train which was moving slowly on a siding. Alfred Dalby of New York, musical director of "The Spring Chicken" musical comedy company, was so badly hurt that his right arm was amputated.
The wreck was due to the failure of an operator to throw a switch. The west-bound freight train had received orders to meet the express at the western limits of the Bellaire yard, and was moving slowly along the siding. At the point where the wreck occurred there is a sharp curve which prevents the engineers of eastbound trains from seeing more than a few feet ahead.
The passenger train swung around the curve very rapidly, being three hours late. It should have gone on is safety on the main line. The switch to the siding, however, had not been turned and the train shot onto the siding and into the freight. There was scarcely time to apply the brakes and no time for the engine men to jump.
The two big engines were reduced to junk by the impact, but the worst damage was done to the smoker, which was telescoped so completely by the baggage car that every seat was thrown out. Every occupant of he smoker was killed or badly injured. The passengers in the other day coach and the two sleeping cars were tumbled from their seats, but not seriously injured. |
| Battle Creek (Mich.) |
30.09.1907 |
Union Steam Pump Co. |
Eröffnung von neuen Gebäuden. Bei der Feier wird ein Konzert mit dem Germania Orchestra unter John B. Martin als Dirgenten, assistiert von Dr. Roy Alvord und Mr. E.C. Adams, Magician, gegeben. |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
16.10.1907 |
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One man was killed and twenty passengers injured, several so seriously that they may die, in the wreck of a Elberon avenue car to-day. The motorman is reported to have lost control of the car at the steep grade. At a curve the car jumped the track and toppled over. Six persons were pinned under the wreckage. The injured are mostly women, as the men were able to slide under the outside rail, the car being an open one. The dead man is Henry Bausch, formerly employed in the city solicitor's office. |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
16.10.1907 |
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One man was killed, six persons were dangerously injured and probably 25 others slightly hurt today when an Elborn avenue car went over a 25-foot embankment, at Mount Hope, in the western end of the city. The man killed was HARRY BAUSCH, an attorney.
The Elborn avenue lines start at the southern section of Price Hill, having a steep grade around Mount Hope. As the car was coming down this grade the motorman lost control of the car, which jumped the track soon afterwards, apparently striking a bad rail, going clear across the street and over the bank. It landed upside down and the heavy trucks crashed through the car, a number of those most seriously hurt being caught in the car. The car was crowded and only three or four jumped before the accident.
The pollice, under orders from the mayor and prosecuting attorney, took charge of the wreck, preventing its removal until photographs could be taken and data secured showing the cause of the accident.
The seriously injured are:
MISS BESSIE POWELL, hip broken and internally injured.
CASPER VOGHT, internally injured.
MISS HELEN HALL, internally injured.
MISS LILY J. HUST, leg and arm hurt and internal injuries.
CHAS. LOCKHARD, salesman, legs crushed and internal injuries.
BENJAMIN EISENSTEIN, painter, shoulder and leg injured.
MISS EVELYN McCOAL, leg hurt.
MISS MARY CROW, bruised and cut. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
21.10.1907 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Verlängerung der Muskego Lakes Line zum Beulah Lake |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
28.10.1907 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Eröffnung der ersten 19 Meilen der Strecke nach Sheboygan von Milwaukee and Cedarburg |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
29.10.1907 |
Cream City Iron Works, Filer, Stowell & Co. |
Patenterteilung |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
02.11.1907 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Weitere 14 Meilen bis Port Washington der Strecke nach Sheboygan werden eröffnet. |
| Saginaw (Michigan) |
12.1907 |
Wickes Brothers |
Die "Wickes Boiler Company" wird als separate Gesellschaft gegründet. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
13.12.1907 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Verlängerung der Muskego Lakes Line nach East Troy |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1908 |
Griffin Wheel Foundry Company |
Unter der Leitung von Griffin wird die "Association of Manufacturers of Chilled Iron Wheels" gebildet. Ihr Ziel ist die Garantierung der Qualität von Eisenbahnrädern durch Untersuchungen und Herstellungskontrollen |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1908 |
International Harvester Company |
Gründung einer deutschen Tochterfirma von "International Harvester" in Neuss |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1908 |
Remington Sholes Typewriter Company |
Die Remington-Sholes Visible -Schreibmaschine wird eingefürht |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1908 |
Kilby Manufacturing Co. |
E. D. Childs wird Nachfolger von W. S. Dodge als Sekretär und Finanzleiter |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
1908 |
Platt Iron Works Co. |
James D. Platt zieht sich aus den "Barney & Smith Car Works" und der Platt Company zurück und überträgt die Platt Works seinen Söhnen. - Diese bauen ein aufwendiges Verwaltungegebäude und stellen Mitglieder ihres Polo-Klubs im Unternehmen ein. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1908 |
Burroughs Adding Machine Co. |
Übernahme des Fertigungsrechts für die "Universal"-Rechenmaschine von "Universal Adding Machine Co., St. Louis". Die Produktion wird nicht fortgesetzt |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1908 |
Chalmers |
Beginn des Automobilbaues |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1908 |
Chalmers |
Gründung durch Umbennenung aus Thomas-Detroit |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1908 |
Hupmobile |
Beginn des Automobilbaues. Das erste Modell wird von Boby Hupp mit Unterstützung von E. A. Nelson entwickelt |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1908 |
Paige-Detroit |
Beginn des Automobilbaues mit einem 3-Zylinder-Zweitakter |
| Freeport (Illinois) |
1908 |
The Stover Engine Works |
Tod von Daniel C. Stover |
| Hamilton (Ohio) |
1908 |
Niles Tool Works |
Der Lizenzvertrag mit der "Deutschen Niles Werke AG" läuft aus. |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
1908 |
Willys-Overland Company |
John North Wills, von der Qualität der Overland-Wagen überzeugt, übernimmt das Werk nach einer Finanzkrise und ruft so die Willys-Overland Company ins Leben |
| La Porte (Indiana) |
1908 |
M. & J. Rumely |
William Rumely trifft John A. Secor in New York City, der sich mit Ölmaschinen (Brennstoff: Kerosin) befaßt. |
| Lansing (Michigan) |
1908 |
Oldsmobile |
Das vor dem wirtschaftlichen Ruin stehende Werk Oldsmobile wird von General Motors übernommen |
| Momence (Ill.) |
1908 |
The Emerson Typewriter Company |
Verlegung der Fabrik nach Momence |
| Momence (Ill.) |
1908 |
The Emerson Typewriter Company |
Verlegung der Fabrik von Kittery |
| North Dayton (Dayton) |
1908 |
Platt Iron Works Co. |
James D. Platt zieht sich aus den "Barney & Smith Car Works" und der Platt Company zurück und überträgt die Platt Works seinen Söhnen. - Diese bauen ein aufwendiges Verwaltungegebäude und stellen Mitglieder ihres Polo-Klubs im Unternehmen ein. |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1908 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 19563 - 21207 (1645 gebaute Einheiten) |
| Saginaw (Michigan) |
1908 |
Wickes Brothers |
Betriebserweiterung |
| Bennetts Switch (USA) |
02.02.1908 |
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Alfred King, Mrs. Alfred Kling and the former's brother, Ora Kling, were killed today at Bennetts switch, thirteen miles south of Peru (Ind.), by being run down on the crossing of the Indiana Union Traction line by a Fort Wayne and Indianapolis limited car speeding at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour. |
| Toledo (Ohio) |
15.02.1908 |
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Seven dead and eleven injured, two of whom probably will die, was the result of a crash on the West Toledo Crossing of the Michigan Central Railroad and the Toledo and Western Traction Line late to-night, in which a traction car was demolished by Big Four passenger train 810. The dead are:
JAMES MEYERS, Motorman of the car, Toledo.
MRS. CLARENCE BEECH, Sylvania, Ohio.
Two children of Mr. and Mrs. BEECH.
The injured are Mayor JONES of Sylvania; Mrs. JONES, wife of the Mayor of Sylvania; CLARA SEXTON, Trilby, Ohio; JOE BOCHMEYER, Trilby, Ohio, probably will die; CHARLES DOLPH, Sylvania, Ohio; GEORGE BRAGDON, Toledo, Ohio, probably will die; BURT BLANKLEY, Sylvania, Ohio, serious, possibly fatally injured; HIRAM PARKER, Sylvania, Ohio.
According to an eyewitness of the wreck, which occurred shortly after 8 oâ??clock, the conductor stopped at the crossing to flag the car across. Seeing the train coming, he motioned to the motorman to stop, but the signal was either misunderstood, unseen or disregarded, for the car came ahead with sickening results.
All the ambulances in the city were hastily summoned, and the scene of the wreck was soon thronged with excited people, impeding rather than aiding in the work of rescue.
Mrs. FISHER was taken to St. Vincentâ??s Hospital, where she died. Eight of the injured were also received there. |
| Cambridge (Ohio) |
23.02.1908 |
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More than a score of people were seriously hurt, some, it is thought, fatally, in the wreck on the interurban road Sunday morning.
ROSE CLANCEY, aged 18, of Guernsey Mines, was instantly killed.
The performance "Coming Through the Rye" had just closed at the Colonial theatre, when the crowd jammed both the Byesville interurban and city car, the former taking the lead. Just after passing the city limits on the south there is a steep grade, and while going down this rapidly, a drunken passenger, it is alleged, who was on the rear platform of the Byesville car, pulled off the trolley and the car was brought to a stop on a trestle alongside the Cambridge Glass Plant Works. The motorman on the city car following did not see that the car ahead was standing still until too late, and when the crash came he was thrown headlong between the cars.
Five people who were standing on the platform were crushed by the timbers and one was thrown 30 feet into the creek below. But the car remained on the track. Conductor McCULLEY, on the city car, though injured, ran to the city and notified traction company authorities, and a special car with physicians was hurried to the scene. |
| Stevens Point (Wisconsin) |
02.05.1908 |
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A fatal accident took place in the Wisconsin Central yards near the round house at 1:30 Tuesday afternoon, when a middle aged man was run over by a freight train and cut in two.
Train No. 24 from the west had just pulled into the yards and stopped in a position so that the forward end of the train was between the round house and the Michigan avenue crossing. The crew immediately set to work to switch out the cars consigned to this station and in doing so the train was cut in two near the head end and the front section moved forward and then backed on an adjoining track.
After the train was cut in two M.E. KENYON, engineer on the switch engine, who was standing near the round house, saw a man jump out of an empty car in the rear section of the train and begin looking around as if to get his bearings. He crossed over the adjoining track and then turned back and as he recrossed the track he fell. Although he appeared to have plenty of time to get up and save himself, for some reason he failed to do so. Before anyone could attempt to save him he was struck by the cars, and run over as above stated, the wheels passing over his body at the hips. The engineer on No. 24 was BOB BECK of Fond du Lac and HARRY PETTINGILL was the conductor. They did not see the man nor know of the accident until it was all over.
When the manâ??s pockets were searched for identification nothing was found on him except a Wisconsin Central time card and a number of begging cards usually used by professional tramps. |
| La Porte (Indiana) |
06.05.1908 |
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Im Hofraum eines abgebrannten Hauses in Laporte im US-Bundesstaat Indiana werden die verstümmelten Leichen von neun Männern gefunden. Als deren Mörderin wird Belle Guinness, eine Art weiblicher Blaubart, verhaftet. Mittels Heiratsanzeigen hat sie Männer angelockt, ausgeraubt und dann ermordet. |
| Highland County (Ohio) |
19.05.1908 |
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Norfolk and Western passenger train, on the branch line between Sardinia and Hillsboro, was wrecked today by the spreading of rails at a point called Sand Bank, two miles west of here. There was but one coach on the train in which were riding fifteen or twenty people of whom ten or twelve were more or less painfully hurt. |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
02.06.1908 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
Auf der Aktionärsversammlung werden folgende Direktoren gewählt: J. D. Platt, A. M. Kittredge, H. M. Estabrook, E. J. Barney, W. H, Doane, George B. Cox, Joseph Rawson, Walter St. John Jones und V. W. Anderson. |
| Big Slough (Ill.) |
06.06.1908 |
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Three persons were killed and twenty seriously injured in a collision between an Elgin, Joliet and Eastern freight and an Aurora and Joliet electric car at Big Slough, seven miles west of Joliet. W. W. WALFELD, Aurora; C. H. WHITTINGTON, Plainfield, and F. W. BEALE, a bricklayer of Chicago, were killed. The injured include Arthur Mitchell, Arthur Layfield, Joseph Boyne, Chris Shalk, all of Joliet. The accident was due to misplaced signals. |
| Cedar Point (Ohio) |
21.06.1908 |
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An engine drawing a heavy trainload of excursionists from Indianapolis and points along the Lake & Western, who had spent the day at Cedar Point, plunged through an open drawbridge in the east end of this city to-night. None of the passengers was injured.
J. J. Perrish, the engineer, had both legs broken and was internally injured. Fred Sullivan, fireman, was cut about the head and shoulders and internally injured.
The gatekeeper of the bridge says the train pulled out at 9 o'clock, whereas it was not scheduled to leave until 9:30. |
| Garrettsville (USA) |
26.06.1908 |
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One trainman was killed, one probably fatally hurt and six passengers injured tonight when Erie train No. 19, Pittsburg to Cleveland, left the rails west of Garrettsville, Ohio, at 7:48 o'clock. The dead: Charles Simons, engineer. Probably fatally injured, George Ikey, fireman. Erie Railway officials, who returned today from the scene of last night's wreck near Garrettsville, reported that the derailment of the train had been caused by train wreckers.
Investigation showed that all of the spikes had been pulled and the splice bars removed from one entire rail. The rail was lying loose on the ties. The tools with which the work had been done were found near the track. The company has placed a number of detectives on the case and has also offered a reward of $500 for the capture of the persons who caused the wreck. The train was one of the fastest on the road, being bound from Pittsburg to Cleveland with 150 passengers. The engineer was killed and a half dozen persons injured.
Two other attempts to wreck Erie passenger trains have been made near the same locality. Last fall, twice in one night, ties were placed on the track about two miles east of Garrettsville. They were discovered by track walkers and removed in time to prevent disastrous wrecks. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
31.07.1908 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Die Verlängerung der Waukesha Beach Line nach Watertown wird eröffnet. |
| Piqua (Ohio) |
10.08.1908 |
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With a crash that was heard three miles away two spreading Western Ohio Traction company interurban cars collided head-on immediately opposite the Shelby county Infirmary, 10 miles from this city, last night. One car was running at the rate of 55 miles an hour. It is said that the other was making 60.
Farmers in the vicinity, aroused by the terrific crash, had sprung from their beds and were on their way, running to aid the injured. That blunder cost three lives in a single second and two more a short time later. Twelve persons are dying. A score more are seriously injured. It was stated by an official of the western Ohio Traction company last night that the collision was the result of a blunder on the north-bound car or the man who gave him his running orders.
"The north-bound car," the official stated, "should have halted at a switch about 15 miles from this city, when its motorman saw that the south-bound car was not on the siding. "The orders were for the south-bound car to wait on the siding for the north-bound car to pass, but the north-bound car reached the switch first and kept going."
The coroner of Shelby county stated last night that he had obtained positive evidence that the wreck was due to a blunder in receiving orders to meet at the siding. A man, who gave his name as A. J. Armbuster, declares he asked the motorman on his car to state at what point the other was to be met, and was told that a siding several miles beyond the one designated in the orders was the place. |
| Ottawa (Illinois) |
03.09.1908 |
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Two persons were killed, two fatally hurt, and three were seriously injured near here last night when an electric car on the Illinois Valley railway struck the carriage in which were seated WALTER SNELL, a wealthy farmer and a party of six persons. The dead: daughter of MR. AND MRS. SNELL, 12 years old; and a son of MR. AND MRS. SNELL, 8 years old. The fatally injured are MRS. MAMIE TOWNSEND and daughter of MR. AND MRS. SNELL, 15 years old. The seriously injured: MR. AND MRS. SNELL and son, and son of MRS. TOWNSEND, 8 years old.
The crash occurred at a point where the road crosses the electric line a few miles from Ottawa. The road is not well lighted and near the crossing there is a sharp curve which prevented MR. SNELL who was driving from seeing the approaching car. The carriage was directly in the center of the track when the car coming at top speed crashed into it. All the occupants of the carriage were thrown far from the track and the carriage completely wrecked. The horses were also thrown away from the track. The car was not damaged and none of the passengers were injured. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
12.09.1908 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Die Strecke nach Sheboygan wird vollständig in Betrieb genommen: Betriebsaufnahme nach Cedar Grove |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
22.09.1908 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Die Strecke nach Sheboygan wird vollständig in Betrieb genommen. Die Wagen fahren nach Sheboygan über die Gleisanlage der "Sheboygan Light, Power and Railway" und teilen sich den gemeinamen Bahnhof mit der innerstädtischen Linie von Sheboygan. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
26.09.1908 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Verlängerung der Waukesha Beach Line von Watertown zum CNW depot. |
| Divernon (USA) |
28.09.1908 |
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The Diamond Special, southbound, on the Illinois Central Railroad, to-day ran into an open switch at Diver[n]on, twenty miles south of Springfield. The locomotive plunged into a ditch and was demolished. Engineer A.J. SHELL and Fireman EDWARD TAYLOR jumped, and were injured.
ELIZABETH MCGUIRE, a child of 7, was playing in a yard near the tracks. Flying fragments from the locomotive killed her.
All the cars of the train left the track, but no passengers were injured.
ETHEL BARRYMORE was on the train. She could not get out of the coach door and a porter for her through a window. She tried to get a special train so as to reach St. Louis in time to fill an engagement to-night, but failed. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
01.10.1908 |
Ford Motor Company |
Baubeginn vom Modell "T" ab 1. Oktober. Bis 1927 werden 15 Millionen Exemplare abgesetzt. |
| Metz (Michigan) |
14.10.1908 |
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Schwere Waldbrände in den Staaten Michigan und Wisconsin hatten das Dorf Metz eingeschlossen, und es wurde ein Hilfszug zur Evakuierung der Bewohner geschickt. Nachdem er die Menschen und ihr Hab und Gut aufgenommen hatte, versuchte er, in nördliche Richtung zu fahren, kam jedoch wegen des Feuers nicht weiter. Er versuchte es nun in der entgegengesetzten Richtung und gelangte bis an eine Behelfsbrücke über einen Abwasserkanal, die aber durch die Flammen bereits in Mitleidenschaft gezogen war. Der Zug kippte um und stürzte in den Kanal. Die meisten Todesopfer waren Frauen und Kinder. 35 Tote |
| Metz (Michigan) |
16.10.1908 |
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Nearly a score of refugees from the fire swept village of Metz, twenty five miles north of Alpena (Mich.), on the Detroit and Mackinac railway, are known to have been burned to death between Metz and the village of Posen last night, when their relief train was wrecked by a burned out culvert. Details are still lacking and reports are coming in very slowly as a result of the destruction of wires and poles by the fierce forest fires, but it is known from Millersburg that fifteen burned skulls have been found in the ruins of the relief train and that the fireman was burned to death in the water tank of his locomotive, where he had taken refuge. With its load of frightened men, women and children the train pulled out of Metz about midnight, it is understood, and started for the north. There were flames along the tracks on both sides and the roar of the burning woods rose above the sound of the engine. The train proceeded toward the north as far as Hawks Station, about half way between Metz and Millersburg.
There the flames were sweeping across the track so fiercely as to make further progress in that direction impossible. The train was headed back toward the south and Alpena. The necessity for returning again into the flame ridden section from which they had been fleeing increased the terror of the passengers aboard the ill-fated, extemporized relief train. As they were rushing through the fire and smoke, the train struck a culvert which had been burned through. It left the rails and piled into the ditch, according to the meagre reports received through the two trainmen who had escaped. |
| Michigan |
16.10.1908 |
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Im US-Bundesstaat Michigan toben verheerende Waldbrände. 150 Menschen sterben in den Flammen. Ein Zug mit Menschen, die aus dem Brandgebiet flüchten, entgleist. Dabei kommen 17 Personen ums Leben. |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
28.10.1908 |
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Nine persons escaped death in a manner little short of miraculous at 11 00 o'clock in the night, when Garfield car No. 438 left the tracks at Lincoln lane and East street and crashed into the building occupied by John G. Pantzer's drug store and Dr. M.O. DeVaney's office. The entire front of the building was wrecked and the car was turned over on its side. Not one of the passengers or the crew of the car was injured.
Roy Martin, motorman of the car, bore two small cuts upon his face, which he received by sticking to his post while the car ran for two lengths off the track. The front end, where he was standing at the controller, climbed the side of the building a distance of about twelve feet. Martin said after the accident that the brakes did not take hold when he threw on the air upon approaching the curve where the Garfield cars turn to South East street. |
| Bucyrus (Ohio) |
1909 |
Ohio Locomotive Crane Co. |
Gründung durch Charles F. Michael. - Der erste Lokomotivkran wird in der "Carroll Foundry and Machine Company" in der North Sandusky Avenue gebaut. Er ist dampfbetrieben und hat eine Tragkraft von 10 t |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1909 |
Central Scientific Company |
Das Markenzeichen "CENCO" wird eingeführt |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1909 |
Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co. |
Eine der Rechenmaschinen von 1887 wird bis 1909 in einem Regierungsbüro in Washington verwendet |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1909 |
Illinois Tunnel Company |
Die Baukosten (bisher 30.000.000 Dollar) treiben das Unternehmen in den Bankrott. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1909 |
International Harvester Company |
Bau eines Werks von "International Harvester" in Neuss |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1909 |
Oliver, Thomas |
Thomas Oliver stribt |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1909 |
The Oliver Typewriter Co. |
Thomas Oliver stribt |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
1909 |
Emery Industries Inc. |
Henkel, Düsseldorf, übernimmt das Twitchell-Verfahren in der ersten eigenen Fettspaltungsanlage. |
| Connersville (Indiana) |
1909 |
McFarlan |
Ausdehnung der Produktion auf den Automobilsektor |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1909 |
American Blower Company |
Einführung der "Sirocco"-Gebläse, ein nach vorn gekrümmtes Zentrifugalgebläse (nur halb so groß wie die bisher üblichen Schaufelräder gleicher Leistung), durch eine Handelsvereinbarung mit dem Erfinder, Samuel Davidson, "Davidson & Co.", Belfast. Eine Weile hatte Davidson vorgehabt, in Amerika weitere Werke zu eröffnen, um den dortigen Markt zu decken. "American Blower" übernimmt die einzige amerikanische Außenstelle von Davidson, die "Sirocco Engineering" in Troy, NY. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1909 |
Burroughs Adding Machine Co. |
Übernahme der Fertigung der "Pike"-Rechenmaschine von "Pike Adding Machine, Orange" |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1909 |
Detroit Waterworks |
Baubeginn für eine zweite Pumpstation |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1909 |
Ford Motor Company |
Ford gewinnt (obwohl später disqualifiziert) auch ein Coast-to-Coast-Rennen (ein Rennen von Küste zu Küste) quer durch die USA. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1909-1913 |
Ford Motor Company |
Im Zeitraum von 1909 bis 1913 nimmt Ford mit veränderten Modell Ts an verschiedenen Rennen teil |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1909 |
Hudson |
Beginn des Automobilbaues |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
1909 |
Hetherington & Berner |
Bau eines neuen Werks an der Kreuzung der Kentucky Avenue mit der West McCarty Street. |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
1909 |
J. J. Cole |
Beginn des Automobilbaues |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
1909 |
Nordyke & Marmon Company |
Erneuerung der Produktpalette |
| Kenosha (Wisc.) |
1909 |
Rambler |
Neuerung: abnehmbares Ersatzrad |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1909 |
Harley-Davidson |
Das erste Motorrad mit dem typischen V-Twin-Motor kommt auf den Markt |
| Moline (Ill.) |
1909 |
Velie |
Beschluß zum Automobilbau |
| Peoria (Ill.) |
1909 |
Holt Manufacturing Co. |
Benjamin Holt erwirbt eine vorhandene Industrieanlage in East Peoria, Illinois |
| Pontiac (Oakland) |
1909 |
Oakland |
Beitritt zur General-Motors-Gruppe |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1909 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 21208 - 22869 (1662 gebaute Einheiten) |
| Water Works Park (Detroit) |
1909 |
Detroit Waterworks |
Baubeginn für eine zweite Pumpstation |
| Madison (Illinois) |
08.01.1909 |
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Walter Casteuans of Greenup, fireman on Clover Leaf west bound passenger train No. 3, was hurt at the Madison yard, the division terminal, last night. He had been putting the machine away in the round house after a bridge engine took the train in and swung off the cab onto what he supposed was the floor of the round house. Instead he fell into the pit. It was supposed that his back was broken and he was placed on an extra east and brought to Edwardsville. Dr. H. T. Wharff, the company surgeon, examined him in the station here, and found that the blow had crushed in several of the man's ribs near the backbone, inflicting an injury which made the fireman gasp with pain every time he drew a breath. His hurt was dressed and he was forwarded to his home on the first train. He is 30 years old and is married. |
| Edwardsville (Illinois) |
13.01.1909 |
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The first train from Alton this morning over the Wabash-Terminal had a disastrous wreck just west of town. The train consisted of two cars, the first a combination baggage and smoker and the second a passenger coach, pulled by engine 405.
At 7 o'clock this morning the train was speeding for the Junction to make the early morning connection from Chicago. It whirled around the curve at the intersection of the Alton road near the place of Martin Drda, and crashed into four cars of coal. The front end of the engine was smashed, and the first coach [ineligible] in the air and reared across the tender of the locomotive. The first coal car was crushed by the impact and the others were driven a hundred yards down the track.
How the cars came there is a mystery, but it is supposed that they escaped from the yards south of town. It was said at the Litchfield & Madiso office this morning that one of the yard crews had probably been switching there last night, but the office force did not know whether any coal was left for transfer. At any rate the runaways traveled over the "High Line" past Woodlawn, out across the Wabash main line and then across Cahokia creek to the Alton road, where they came to rest. Today's wreck lies directly across the wagon road. |
| Limestone (Peoria, Illinois) |
15.01.1909 |
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Two extra freights on the Northwestern road collided head-on this evening near Limestone, four miles northwest of Peoria.
Three trainmen were instantly killed, one is missing and believed to be in the wreckage and two others were seriously injured, one of whom may die.
The trains met in a narrow valley and each was going at full speed.
The northbound extra was in charge of Conductor W. C. DONTCHY and the southbound in charge of Conductor J. SCHAFFER.
Owing to the darkness and a fitful fall of snow the engineers could not see each other's trains until too close to avoid the smash.
Both engines and half a dozen loaded freight cars in each train piled into a splintered mass.
Mistake In Orders.
No cause can definitely be assigned for the disaster, though it is generally believed that it was a mistake in train orders.
The road on which the accident occurred is a branch of the Northwestern, which extends from Sterling, Ill., to Peoria.
The Dead:
JOE CURTAIN, engineer, Sterling, Ill.
M. METZLER, fireman, home in Virginia.
J. A. RUSSELL, brakeman, Sterling, Ill.
The Missing:
O. A. HOUCHINS, brakeman, Sterling, Ill.
The Injured:
W. J. WATSON, Chicago, fireman, serious (will die). |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
22.01.1909 |
Kilby Manufacturing Co. |
Tod von J. W. Lee. Sein Nachfolger als Präsident des Unternehmens wird W. S. Dodge |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
30.01.1909 |
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Motorman J. E. Mulligan was killed, Lieut. Poppe, Chief of Detectives, was probably fatally hurt, and a score of passengers were injured to-day, when a College Hill main-line car, with thirty-seven passengers, jumped the rails on Clifton Avenue, and crashed into a trolley pole and billboard.
Motorman Mulligan died at the City Hospital soon after reaching there. He did not regain consciousness. Dr. C. S. Rockhill, a professor in Cincinnati University, who was in the car, suffered severe injuries. He aided several other injured, hurried to his classroom, where he assigned examination work to a waiting class, placing the students on honor, left them and put himself in a surgeon's hands.
But for being stopped by the trolley pole and billboard the car would have been hurled over the crest of the steep cliff that overlooks the head of Elm Street. Motorman Mulligan and Lieut. Poppe used their utmost endeavors to stop the car, persisting in their effort until crushed in the wreck.
Poppe, on reaching the hospital, sent at once for Chief of Police Milliken, having official matters which he wished to report before death, which he seemed to believe was imminent. |
| La Salle (Illinois) |
15.02.1909 |
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John Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Workers, was in a wreck near La Salle, and suffered a slight injury to his hand. Eleven others were injured in the head-end collision between two interurban cars on a curve. The motorman failed to stop at the switch, and the cars met on a hill. None was badly hurt, but several were pinioned under the wreckage. Both cars were smashed. Mitchell's injuries were dressed here and later he departed for New York. |
| Carbondale (Illinois) |
16.02.1909 |
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Four passengers were killed and 36 injured today when an Illinois Central train bound from St. Louis to New Orleans was wrecked on a high trestle by running into a broken rail, six miles east of Murphysboro.
The dead:
MRS. GRACE PERRY, Carbondale, Ill.
SHERIFF ALDEN and MRS. ALDEN, Union County, Ill.
B. BRINKLEY, Carbondale.
The injured included Rev. H.M. McClellan, of Murphysboro, and sixteen members of the Perry Hastens show troupe slightly hurt and Miss Helen Yellewe, of the show troupe back injured, seriously.
None of the injured will die. |
| Murphysboro (USA) |
16.02.1909 |
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Four passengers were killed and thirty-six injured to-day when an Illinois Central train, bound from St. Louis to New Orleans, was wrecked on a trestle by running into a broken rail six miles east of Murphysboro.
The dead are MRS. GRACE PERRY, Carbondale, Ill.; SHERIFF ALDEN and MRS. ALDEN, Union County, Illinois, and B. BRINKLEY, Carbondale.
Among the injured are the REV. H. M. MCCLELLAN of Murphysboro and sixteen members of the PERRY HASTINGS show troupe, slightly hurt. None of the injured will die.
The train was running fifty-five miles an hour when it hit the broken rail. The locomotive passed over the trestle safely, but the baggage car and the smoking car went off the track and threw the four remaining cars down an embankment. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
19.02.1909 |
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. |
Tod des Chefingenieurs von Allis-Chalmers, Edwin Reynolds. Er hatte die Maschinenwerkstätten in West Allis und die meisten ihrer Maschinen geplant und hatte über 40 Patente für Verbesserungen von Bergwerksmaschinen, Kraftmaschinen, Luftkompressoren, Ventilsteuerungen usw. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
19.02.1909 |
Reynolds, Edwin |
Tod des Chefingenieurs von Allis-Chalmers, Edwin Reynolds. Er hatte die Maschinenwerkstätten in West Allis und die meisten ihrer Maschinen geplant und hatte über 40 Patente für Verbesserungen von Bergwerksmaschinen, Kraftmaschinen, Luftkompressoren, Ventilsteuerungen usw. |
| Shelby (Ohio) |
04.1909 |
Shelby Electric Company |
Tod von John C. Fish. Die Beerdigung findet am 19. April im Haus der Familie am South Broadway statt. |
| Carbondale (Illinois) |
02.04.1909 |
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Zugentgleisung bei Carbondale. Die Lokomotive stürzt um |
| Springfield (Illinois) |
21.04.1909 |
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Engineer FRANK SCOTT of the Wabash was killed at Springfield Wednesday evening, by being run over by a switch engine. SCOTT was formerly a fireman in the through freight service between Decatur and Hannibal, but was promoted some time ago. Since then he has been running west of Bluffs.
Found By Switchman.
Mr. SCOTT was visiting his parents in Springfield at the time of the accident occurred. He had left his home a short time before the accident and had started on an errand. Encountering switch engine No. 431 he climbed aboard to chat with Switchman H.B. Slade, who was riding on the footboard.
Near Tenth and Cook Streets SCOTT got off. That was the last seen of him until about three minutes afterwards, when Switch Foreman C.L. Miller went back a short distance from where the engine stopped to throw a switch and found SCOTTâ??S body lying between the rails. His body was cut in two.
It is not known how the accident occurred, though it is suspected that SCOTT missed his footing in alighting and fell under the wheels.
His Stay In Decatur.
SCOTT was born and reared in Springfield, where he graduated from the high school, later attending Notre Dame University. He leaves his father and mother and two sisters. While he ran into Decatur he boarded and roomed at the Railroad Y.M.C.A. |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
01.06.1909 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
H. R. Viot tritt als Verkehrsleiter und vom Dienst an der Firma zurück. Sein Nachfolger ist Virgil S. Knight, bis J. Stevens die Transport- und Einkaufsabteilung übernimmt. |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
02.06.1909 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
Auf der Aktionärsversammlung werden folgende Direktoren gewählt: E. J. Barney, A. M. Kittredge, H. M. Estabrook, E. Frank Platt, V. W. Anderson, Walter St. John Jones, Joseph W. Rawson, W. H. Doane, George B. Cox. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
19.06.1909 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Eröffnung der Linie nach Waterford |
| Porter (Indiana) |
20.06.1909 |
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Ten persons were killed and forty injured in a wreck on the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Railroad in Porter County, Indiana, last night, two of the big electric cars colliding head-on. According to General Manager H. U. Wallace, the wreck was due to disobedience of orders by Motorman GEORGE A REED of the east-bound car, who was killed.
REED received instructions at Gary to wait at Wilson, a short distance west of Baileytown, the point at which the disaster occurred, for the west bound car to pass. The impact of the cars was so great that they were reduced to a mass of wreckage. he eastbound car was going fifty miles an hour to make up lost time. When the crash occurred the eastbound car was telescoped and almost demolished. In this train were all of the killed and most of the injured, the passengers on the west bound train escaping with bruises. The two cars were welded together in a mass of debris, in which lay the dead and dying and twoscore injured. Darkness greatly interferred with the progress of the rescuers, and to make matters worse, the nearest telephone was nearly a mile away. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
02.07.1909 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Verlängerung der Linie über Waterford hinaus nach Burlington |
| Munster (Indiana) |
24.07.1909 |
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One person killed, another probably fatally injured and two others seriously hurt in a collision between an automobile and a passenger train on the Monon railroad near Munster, Ind., today.
The Dead: RICHARD [ILLEGIBILE] 18 years of age, Hillsdale, Mich
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The Injured: Harris Eberhardt, 18 years of age, son of E. G. Eberhardt, vice president and general manager of the Woolen Manufacturing Company at Mishawaka, Ind. |
| Grand Ledge (USA) |
19.08.1909 |
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An explosion of the locomotive of the "Resort Flyer" on the Pere Marquette, a mile and a half east of Grand Ledge at 12:30 o'clock this morning, wrecked the entire train. Fireman FRED GRAVES, Grand Rapids, and Engineer WILLIAM BRADLEY of Ionia were killed and several passengers were probably fatally hurt and scores of people were injured.
The train was the regular resort train which runs from Detroit to Petoskey, due in Grand Rapids at 1:05, and was made up of five coaches, crowded with people going to northern Michigan points for outings.
The locomotive boiler exploded when the train was running at the rate of nearly 50 miles an hour and was completely demolished. The coaches were also badly wrecked, and to add to the horror the cars which plunged into the ditch took fire.
Luckily 15 thresher hands who were sleeping in a barn near by, hastily came running with buckets of water and the blaze was soon extinguished. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
24.08.1909 |
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A stock car filled with cattle was derailed and five head of cattle were killed in the Milwaukee yards this morning between six and seven o'clock. Work was going on in the yards at laying the rails on the "Y," and one of the rails had not yet been fastened securely into position. While the stock train was being switched, it was backed onto this rail, and the rail giving way, let one of the cars roll over, with the result that five of the cattle were killed. As the train was moving very slowly, it as [sic] possible to stop it very quickly and the damage did not extend beyond this one car. The main track was not occupied so that traffic was not delayed at all by the accident. The train consisted of twenty-seven cars of cattle which were being shipped from old Mexico to the range west of the Missouri. |
| Arlington Heights (Cook, Illinois) |
17.09.1909 |
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John Harnickel, a prominent farmer, was killed, with the team he was driving, on a grade crossing by a Wabash train near Fairbury. |
| Kewanee (Illinois) |
17.09.1909 |
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Carl Anderson of Nekoma was decapitated by a trolley car on the interurban railway tracks four miles west of Kewanee. It is believed that he lay down on the tracks with his body concealed in the tall weeds. James Bremner, the motorman, who discovered the body, saw the head between the rails as his car approached it. He said he believed it was a groundhog until his car was within a few feet of it. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
26.09.1909 |
Kellogg Swichboard & Supply Company |
Tod von Milo G. Kellogg |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
26.09.1909 |
Kellogg, Milo Gifford |
Tod von Milo G. Kellogg |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
28.09.1909 |
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Six men were killed and a dozen seriously injured early today by an outbound Panhandle passenger train crashing
into the rear end of a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul stock train at Twelfth and Rockwell streets.
The victims were stockmen and members of the stock train crew. No persons on the passenger train were injured.
When the accident occured a few minutes after midnight most of the victims were sleeping in the caboose of the stock train. This train was so completely demolished and the victims so mutilated that hours later only two had been identified.
Four cars were telescoped and the wreckage set afire. Many of the injured were extricated with difficulty from the burning debris by firemen and others who hurried to the scene of the wreck. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
01.10.1909 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Verlängerung der Linie von Burlington nach South limits. Die 1200-Volt-Abschnitte werden von Wechsel- auf Gleichstrom umgestellt. |
| Farmer City (USA) |
06.10.1909 |
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One is dead and many are injured, some gravely, as the result of the head-on collision between two Illinois Central trains, one a regular local and the other a state fair special, two miles west of Farmer City last night.
The collision was between local No. 525, south bound from Chicago and a special state fair train from Springfield to Gilman. The regular train was pulled by Engineer CLARK with Conductor CARPENTER in charge. The special was pulled by Engineer McCUE with Conductor DOCKENS in charge.
As far as can be learned, the blame of the wreck lies on Engineer McCUE, who misread his watch and thought he had fourteen minutes more than he really had.
The trains met on a curve west of Farmer City at 9:50 o'clock. Both engineers applied emergency brakes when they saw the collision coming. The regular train came to a stop just an instant before the special, still tearing along the track, struck it.
Both engines were demolished and laid across the track. In the special the combination baggage car and smoker telescoped the first day coach, catching the unfortunate excursionists in a trap. The other coaches were unhurt, but all were jarred from the track.
In the regular train the baggage car was completely wrecked and the smoker was also wrecked. The day coach, one of the new steel coaches, recently adopted as the standard by the Illinois Central, stood the shock and stayed on the tracks. It was hardly damaged beyond being battered at the end. An ordinary wooden coach would have crumpled up like cardboard and doubtless taken lives with it, for the train was crowded. |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
21.10.1909 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
A. J. Stevens wird zum "Manager of Purchases and Transportation" ernannt. |
| Gano (Ohio) |
25.10.1909 |
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Two men were killed and three others seriously injured when an engine of a freight train exploded while running at full speed on the Big Four railroad near Gano station, twenty-five miles north of here. Six cars of the train piled on top of the wrecked engine and several thousand dollars' worth of freight was destroyed in the fire that followed. The entire train was derailed.
The dead are: OSCAR PRICE, engineer, Springfield, O.; CHARLES WYCOFF, engineer, Middletown, O. The injured are: HARRY GOBB, head brakeman, Reading, O.; CLAUDE MOCH, fireman, Springfield, O.; HARRY JONES, conductor, Cincinnati. Both engineers who were killed were married and had families. |
| Isle Royale (USA) |
16.11.1909 |
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Gesunken, als sich die Ladung im Sturm verschiebt, bei Isle Royale Michigan |
| Detour (Michigan) |
17.11.1909 |
---- |
Durch Feuer zerstört in Lime Island bei Detour Michigan |
| Wisconsin |
30.11.1909 |
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Durch Feuer zerstört in Redcliffe Wis. während der Arbeit am Wrack der "James H. Hoyt" |
| Western Springs (USA) |
1943 |
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The Oriental Limited train on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy was overturned by a broken rail at Western Springs, Ill., and 31 persons were injured. Two women were seriously hurt, while the others received painful bruises and lacerations.
The Burlington in its official statement regarding the wreck claimed only 19 passengers had been injured.
The wreck was caused by a rail which broke as the fourth car of the train was passing. The three rear cars, all sleepers, were derailed and overturned in a ditch after dragging along the roadbed on their sides for yards. The first three cars and the locomotive left the track, but did not overturn, and plowed along, tearing up the track for 200 feet.
The train consisted of an engine, a baggage car, two chair cars, and three sleepers. It was over seven hours late and was running at great speed when the wreck occurred.
The three Pullman sleepers, most of them filled with passengers coming east to spend Christmas with friends, slid down an embankment for 15 feet, and that none was killed is declared by railroad men to be one of the miracles in the history of railroad accidents.
The passengers were buried in the wreckage of the partly demolished coaches, many of them being pinned down, where they were obliged to wait until released by fellow passengers and citizens of Western Springs, who were summoned by the whistles of the engine.
Contrary to the usual record of railroad accidents, the passengers in the chair cars were not injured, beyond a shaking up. The broken rail, to which the accident was due, was curled into a shapeless mass when the cars came to a stop. |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
24.12.1909 |
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Trains Collide in Snowstorm at Cleveland, Ohio. Five trainmen were killed and another was severely injured when a westbound Lake Shore passenger train collided with a freight train in the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway yards. No passengers were injured.
The dead are:
H. L. COLLINGWOOD, passenger engineer; died at hospital.
JOHN SWAILES, Charlevol, Mich., freight fireman; killed instantly.
JOHN FRANK, Collingwood, switchman; killed instantly.
W. J. BURNS, Cleveland, freight engineer, died at hospital.
C. BASHER, Cleveland, freight trainman; died at hospital.
J. CARRIER, Buffalo, fireman on the passenger engine, was badly scalded.
The collision occurred at 1:55 a. m., within sight of the Union Station. Snow was falling, and it is believed that the red light, which railroad men say was displayed to warn the engineer of the passenger train, was obscured.
While crossing from one track to another the freight train was hit diagonally. The crew of the switch engine was pinned beneath the wreckage. The passenger engine overturned, carrying its crew underneath.
A party of Vassar girls, on their way home, were among the passengers. They at once plunged into the work of giving temporary aid to the injured and reassuring the frightened. Not one of the girls was hurt. |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1910/29 |
Brush, Charles Francis |
Zwischen 1910 und 1929 schreibt Brush mehrere Artikel über seine Version einer kinetischen Theorie der Gravitation vom Le-Sage-Typ auf Basis von elektromagnetischen Wellen. |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1910 |
White Sewing Machine Company |
Umstellung auf Benzinmotoren bei Personenkraftwagen |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1910/19 |
Detroit Shipbuilding Company |
Erweiterung der Maschinenwerkstätte und eines Lager- und Empfangsgebäudes |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1910 |
King |
Beginn des Automobilbaues |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1910 |
King |
Gründung, nachdem sich King selbständig machte |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1910 |
Lozier Motor Company |
Verlagerung der Produktion von Personenkraftwagen nach Detroit |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1910 |
Lozier Motor Company |
Verlagerung der Produktion von Personenkraftwagen von Plattsburg |
| Evansville (USA) |
1910 |
A. S. Baker Company |
Als neue Produkte werden stählerne Windmühlen herausgebracht. Die Windmühlen sind solide konstruiert und bringen der Gesellschaft zahlreiche Anerkennungen für Qualitätsarbeit. |
| Evansville (USA) |
1910 |
F. Grote Manufacturing Co. |
Bau einer neuen Fabrik |
| Janesville (Wisc.) |
um 1910 |
A. C. Kent Company |
Einstellung der Produktion mit dem Tod von A. C. Kent |
| Janesville (Wisc.) |
um 1910 |
A. C. Kent Company |
Tod von A. C. Kent |
| La Grange (Cook, Illinois) |
1910 |
Blomberg, Martin |
Martin Blomberg besucht die Universität Uppsala (bis 1912) |
| La Salle (Illinois) |
1910 |
Matthiessen & Hegeler Zinc Company |
M & H bleibt bis 1910 das größte Zink-Unternehmen in den USA |
| Lansing (Michigan) |
1910 |
Olds Motor Works |
Umwandlung in "Reo Motor Truck Company" |
| Marion (Ohio) |
1910 |
Marion Steam Shovel and Dredge Company |
Gründung durch A. E. Cheney, den früheren Verkaufsleiter der "Marion Steam Shovel Company". Er hatte dort Differenzen mit George W. King: King wollte Maschinen für den Bergbau produzieren, Cheney sah einen Bedarf für Baumaschinen. Cheney erwirbt die stilliegenden Fabrikanlagen und Rechte der "Osgood Dredge Company" in Albany, New York und überführt sie nach Marion. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1910 |
Vilter Manufacturing Co. |
Vertrag zwischen der Santa Fé Railroad und Vilter für den Entwurf einer Eisfabrik für eine Tagesproduktion von 225 t Eis. |
| Momence (Ill.) |
1910 |
Roebuck Typewriter Company |
Umfirmierung aus "Emerson Typewriter Company" nach Kauf der Fabrik durch "Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago" |
| Momence (Ill.) |
1910 |
Roebuck Typewriter Company |
Vmtl. noch 1910: Umfirmierung in "Woodstock Typewriter Company" |
| Momence (Ill.) |
1910 |
The Emerson Typewriter Company |
Umfirmierung in "Roebuck Typewriter Company" nach Kauf der Fabrik durch "Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago" |
| Peoria (Ill.) |
1910 |
Avery Manufacturing Machinery Co. |
Avery bringt seinen ersten Lastkraftwagen "gasoline farm wagon" heraus |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1910 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Beginn des Automobilbaues, um seine Produktpalette zu erweitern. Dazu kauft er die kleine Firma "Pierce Motor Company" in Racine. Es werden auch Rennautos gebaut; se bewähren sich bei dem Indianapolis 500 Rennen nicht. |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1910 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 22870 - 24277 (1408 gebaute Einheiten) |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1910 |
Pierce |
Case übernimmt vmtl. 1910 die Produktion von Personenkraftwagen |
| South Bend (Indiana) |
1910 |
Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company |
EMF und Studebaker gründen eine gemeinsame Gesellschaft, die Studebaker Corporation |
| Dawn (Ohio) |
02.01.1910 |
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That the wreck of the Big Four Knockerbocker special at Dawn station, near Ansonia, last night, was the work of train wreckers is the opinion of the railroad officials today. The lock on the open switch and the switchlamp, both of which had been removed, were found today in a corn field some distance away.
One Confesses.
UNION CITY, Ind., Jan. 2.---Vernon Plessinger, 18 years old, of Anderson, Ind., was arrested tonight, charged with having opened a switch and wrecking the Knickerbocker train on the Big Four railroad at Dawn, Ohio, last night.
Plessinger confessed, the police say, and gave as his motive that he wished to rob the passengers and go to some seaboard town where he could "join the navy." |
| Vincennes (Indiana) |
12.01.1910 |
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The south bound train on the Vandalia railroad was wrecked this afternoon three miles north of Vincennes and many persons injured; none, it is believed fatally. One of the trucks of the tender of the engine broke down as the train left the track, but safely crossed the trestle. Four hundred feet farther on all the coaches left the track and rolled down the bank. The smoking car and the day coach were telescoped. A relief train made up here was sent to the wreck and the injured were brought to this city. The more seriously hurt are as follows:
T.L. LEWIS, Vincennes, body bruised.
W.T. ALLEN, Sandborn, back wrenched.
E.P. WADE, Louisville, body bruised.
C. LOUDERMILK, Vincennes, internally injured.
O.F. EDWARDS, Bicknell, internally injured.
WILLIAM MEGEE, Westphalia, internally injured
BERT WOODALL, Vincennes, head cut.
R.P. MILLER, Arkansas City, Ark., body bruised.
CHARLES HOZEL, Bicknell, head cut.
D. HORNERBURG, Westphalia, body bruised.
BRUCE HILL and MRS. DON HILL, Bruceville, bruised.
LENA HARTER, Washington, bruised.
IDA BLICE, Oaktown, back hurt.
ELIZA COPPER, Sandborn, ribs broken. |
| Pinckneyville (Illinois) |
16.01.1910 |
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CARL KITCHEN, a fireman, was killed and ten persons were injured to-day in a collision between an Illinois Central passenger train from Memphis, and a freight train. The accident occurred on a curve. Among the injured, all of whom will probably recover, are W.M. VAN LEAR of Philadelphia, neck twisted and internal injuries; T. FELBER, Cleveland, Ohio, back and neck injured, and C. RINALDO, Columbus, Ohio, neck and wrist twisted.
The freight train ran back to a water tank a quarter of a mile south of Pinkneyville on the passenger train's time. The passenger train rounded the sharp curve and crashed into it. The locomotive was demolished, and the baggage car was piled on top of it. The injured were all in the day coaches.
MISS T.H. MCKENZIE of Lulu, Miss., was hurt, but she tore up her skirts and bandaged several wounds of other passengers. |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
22.01.1910 |
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Five persons are dead and fifteen were injured, none seriously, as the result of the wreck of the Big Four night express from Chicago, which left the track 2 miles west of here this morning, while running towards the city at 50 miles an hour.
The dead:
FRED C. MURPHY, engineer, Indianapolis, Ind.
C. W. GOLDIE, fireman, Indianapolis.
JOHN STICKEL, Cincinnati.
FRED MURPHY, conductor, Indianapolis.
MICHAEL LEWIS, brakeman, Kansas City, Kan.
While rounding a curve the engine leaped from the track and, whirling in a great semi-circle, plunged through a coach of its own train. By a marvelous chance not a passenger was killed or seriously hurt, the fatalities being confined to the train crew.
GOLDIE was instantly killed, his mangled body having been dragged from under the wreckage. The four other dead succumbed to their injuries later, in the hospital. They were all fearfully scalded by steam.
According to the Big Four officials the accident was caused by a piece of iron dropping on one of the tracks, which derailed the engine. |
| Loudonville (Ohio) |
30.01.1910 |
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Pennsylvania train No. 9, westbound, today struck and killed MRS. ROY COVERT and mortally injured her husband at a crossing near Loudonville. Proceeding further, the train struck an automobile on the outskirts of Crestline, a few miles away, and killed J. H. SIGLER, aged 60, and CHARLES ECHELBERGER, both of Hayesville.
In the automobile with ECHELBERGER and SIGLER was CURTIS DOERRER of Mansfield. DOERRER'S shoulder was crushed, his leg was broken, and he received internal injuries.
The young woman who was the first to meet death on the track was on her way, with her husband, to visit a neighbor. Her death was instant. COVERT was picked up many yards away, and does not know of his wife's death.
The automobile party, struck at Leas Crossing, came upon the tracks in their machine from the rear of an eastbound freight, directly in front of the express. In an instant their machine was lifted high in the air. When it fell SIGLER and ECHELBERGER were dead. Their bodies were brought to Mansfield. DOERRER, the injured man, was taken to a Crestline hospital. |
| Little Suamico (USA) |
19.02.1910 |
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Wreck Is Caused by Broken Rail--Entire Train of Eight Cars Derailed--Cars Are Piled Up in a Shattered Mass and Sleeper Has to Be Broken Open With an Axe to Rescue Passengers--None seriously Hurt--Details.
(By Associated Press.)
A Wisconsin special from Green Bay says: Fourteen passengers were injured in a wreck, near Little Suamico, of passenger train No. 2, of the Chicago & Northwestern railway running between Ishpeming and Chicago, early today.
It is said all the injured will recover. The whole train, made up of four sleepers, an express car, a mail car and two day coaches, was derailed. The cause of the wreck is believed to have been a broken rail. One of the sleepers was overturned and had to be broken open to get the passengers out.
Two other sleepers were badly smashed, and the smoking car was hurled 400 feet away from the right of way. The other cars were piled up in a shattered mass.
The injured passengers were nearly all in the sleepers in route to points in Illinois. The thermometer registered ten degrees below zero. Some of the injured passengers resumed their journey later during the morning.
THE OFFICIAL VERSION.
Chicago, Ill., Feb. 19.--Train No. 2, southbound on the Green Bay division was derailed o e mile from Little Suamico, Wis., at 3:10 a. m., according to the report received at the general offices here today. Fourteen passengers were slightly injured and none seriously according to officials. The train consisted of two day coaches and two sleepers. None of the coaches left the track. The cause of the derailment has not been ascertained. The train was able to proceed south after a short delay. |
| La Porte (Indiana) |
21.02.1910 |
M. & J. Rumely |
Die große Werkstatt zur Herstellung des kerosin-betriebenen Treckers "The OilPull" (von John Secor entwickelt) wird gebaut. |
| Woodstock (Illinois) |
22.02.1910 |
Woodstock Typewriter Co. |
Erteilung eines Schreibmaschinen-Patents |
| Convoy (USA) |
27.03.1910 |
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Two men were killed, two painfully hurt and a house burned to the ground in a headon interurban collision between an express car and a passenger car on the Ohio Electric line on the outskirts of Convoy, O., a short distance from here, at 6:45 o?clock this morning. Both cars were destroyed by the flames. The accident apparently was caused by Stewart overrunning his orders. He was directed to stop at a crossing on the east side of Convoy and there wait for the express car. Instead of doing this he continued through the town at a high rate of speed, according to statements of officials.
Near the spot where the accident occurred there is a sharp curve with high banks, cutting off all view of the track ahead. This spot is about forty rods west of Convoy and there are numerous houses on the banks above the road.
Stewart went around this curve at high speed and just at the end of it the two cars met. After the accident, when questioned by the coroner regarding his participation in it, Stewart declared that he did not know where he was supposed to pass the express car. |
| Kendallville (Indiana) |
28.03.1910 |
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Edward Schwartz, aged 40 years, familiarly known as "Pete" Schwartz, a repairman and mechanic for the Toledo & Chicago interurban railroad, was killed Saturday night at 11:30 o'clock between Garden and Oak streets in this city by being struck by interurban car No. 81. The victim was intoxicated at the time and apparently had gone to sleep on the track, as before being struck he was seen lying on the track by the motorman, J. B. Kellar, but not in time to stop the car before the accident occurred.
Schwartz had been to Bixler lake during the day fishing and was returning home. He had been drinking and was evidently in a badly intoxicated condition, so much so that sleep overcame him and he laid down on the track. The verdict of the coroner in regard to the death is as follows:
That Edward Schwartz came to his death by being accidentally run over by train No. 61 on the Toledo & Chicago interurban railway, driven by Motorman J. B. Kellar, and that Schwartz was probably in an intoxicated condition at the time of the accident.
Mr. Schwartz had been employed at the power house of the interurban for some time. He is survived by the widow and one daughter, Olean. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the residence, No. 221 South Lincoln street, Rev. A. Judson Arrick officiating. Interment will be made at Lake View. |
| Woodstock (Illinois) |
05.04.1910 |
Woodstock Typewriter Co. |
Erteilung eines Schreibmaschinen-Patents |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
21.04.1910 |
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CHARLES REED, 1003 English avenue, was seriously injured and W. H. McMULLEN, 130 East Michigan street; JASPER RAISOR, 1018 Oliver avenue, and GEORGE PARKER, 517 Division street, narrowly escaped death when a fast-moving switch engine on the New York Central Railroad crashed into their automobile at East street and the New York Central tracks about 6:15 o'clock in the night. The men are employed by the Overland Automobile Company, Oliver avenue and Drover street, and were driving south on East street when they were struck by the engine. Their machine was an Overland patrol wagon. McMULLEN was driving and REED, RAISOR, and PARKER were sitting in the inclosure [sic], back of the wheel. Engineer FRANK MILLER, who was handling the engine, says he did not see the automobile until a moment before his engine crashed into it, and that as he was running east the wagon dashed across the tracks.
Engine Strikes Wagon.
The engine struck the back end of the wagon and dragged it down the tracks about twenty-five feet. The machine was mashed and REED was caught in the crash. RAISOR and PARKER, who were in the same part of the machine as REED, escaped without a scratch.
The police were notified of the accident, and Bicyclemen SIMON and GLENN and Sergts. WHITE, ROW and BARMFUHRER, in an automobile, rushed to the scene. After an investigation they said it was an accident, and arrested no one.
REED was sent to the City Hospital in the City Dispensary ambulance. He was injured in the back and a gash was cut across his forehead. It was said, after his examination at the hospital, that his injuries are not fatal. |
| Belleville (Ill.) |
08.05.1910 |
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John Hade, aged 9 years, whose father, a laborer, resides at 515 Piggott avenue, East St. Louis, was struck Sunday afternoon by an Illinois Central engine in the Illinois Central yards and was instantly killed. The body was mangled and the head severed.
It is supposed the child stepped from one track to avoid a train onto another, on which the locomotive was approaching.
The inquest was held Monday afternoon, the jury returning a verdict of accidental death.
The burial will be Tuesday afternoon from St. Adelbert's Church. |
| Kensington (Ohio) |
12.05.1910 |
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Three men were probably fatally injured, several other passengers and trainmen were badly hurt and many persons were given a severe shakeup when westbound passenger train No. 307 on the Cleveland & Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania lines west, was derailed and all but one of the cars was thrown over a fourteen-foot embankment shortly after 9 o'clock to-day at Kensington station, eighteen miles south of Alliance. The cause of the derailment is a puzzle to the railway officials. It is officially stated that the train was not running over thirty miles an hour and a cursory examination of track and the equipment does not show reason for the wreck. |
| Bay City (Michigan) |
1910 |
Industrial Works |
Abbruch alter Gebäude an der Stelle des neuen Verwaltungsgebäudes, dessen Neubau an der Eleventh und Washington Street sofort beginnt |
| La Salle (Illinois) |
04.06.1910 |
Hegeler, Edward C. |
Tod von E. C. Hegeler in La Salle, Ill. |
| La Salle (Illinois) |
04.06.1910 |
Matthiessen & Hegeler Zinc Company |
Tod von E. C. Hegeler in La Salle, Ill. |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
07.06.1910 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
Auf der Aktionärsversammlung wird Arthur J. Stevens zum Direktor ernannt, um die Lücke zu füllen, die durch das Ausscheiden von H. M. Wilson im vergangenen Februar entstand.
At the Director?s meeting held the same day Mr. Stevens was elected to the office of Second Vice-President |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
14.06.1910 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
P. W. Klinger tritt als Betriebsleiter der Frachtabteilung zurück und verläßt die Gesellschaft. |
| Middletown (Butler, Ohio) |
04.07.1910 |
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The Cincinnati section of the Twentieth Century Limited from New York to Cincinnati making a detour over the tracks of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad to avoid a blocked track at Genoa on the "Big Four", was wrecked at 1:30 p. m., in a frightful head-on collision with a north-bound freight train. Twenty persons, including three women, were killed outright, three others were probably fatally hurt and twenty-two were seriously injured.
All but four of the dead have been identified, and the identified are all from Ohio. It is believed that the four unidentified dead, one of whom is a woman, are also from this State.
A misunderstanding of orders is said to be responsible for the disaster, one of the worst in the history of modern limited trains, but from what can be learned the passenger train appears to have been traveling wild at the rate of fifty miles an hour, on the supposition that a clear track was ahead. |
| Alto Pass (USA) |
05.07.1910 |
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Engineer Rolla THORTON was killed and Engineer HENSON and Fireman WILLIS were injured when northbound Mobile & Ohio freight train No 32, a doubleheader, went through a bridge five miles south of Alto Pass, shortly after northbound passenger train No. 4 had passed in safety.
WILLIS fell between the engine and cars, but was carried from under the cars by the swift current and swept half a mile down stream. He is seriously injured.
The killed and injured are all from Murphysboro, Ill. The two engines pulling the freight passed over the bridge, but were derailed by falling cars behind them.
THORTON was crushed to death in his cab. Six cars fell into the creek. Traffic is tied up for the day between Murphysboro and Cairo except passenger trains, which are being diverted via the Illinois Central between these points. |
| South Bartonville (USA) |
19.07.1910 |
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Toledo, Peoria and Western passenger train from the west collided with a cut of coal cars running wild opposite the terminal station at South Bartonville. In the crash Mail Clerk W. H. HIPSLEY of Canton was killed and several others injured. |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
09.08.1910 |
Ahrens-Fox Manufacturing Company |
Die "Ahrens Fire Engine Company" wird in "Ahrens-Fox Fire Engine Company" umfirmiert. Charles H. Fox wird der Präsident, sein Schwager John P. Ahrens wird Vizepräsident und ein anderer Schwager George W. Krapp wird Finanzchef. |
| Durand (Michigan) |
25.08.1910 |
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After the preliminary investigation of the collision of two passenger trains near Durand, Mich., last night, an official statement has been issued by the Grand Trunk Railway Company.
All Blame is placed on the engineer of the New York train, who failed to heed the signals.
Passengers on the Montreal train say its rear lights were burning clearly. They also heard the torpedoes explode before the crash. With the clearing away today of the ruins of the wrecked and burned Pullman sleeping car Nebraska probably has disappeared all hopes of determining the actual number of lives lost late last night when the rear section of the Boston & Montreal express from Chicago crashed into the forward section of a Grand Trunk train three miles east of this village.
Estimates of the number of dead vary from eight to a dozen or possibly 20. |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
08.09.1910 |
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Co. |
Henry Tesseyman tritt als Betreibsleiter der Personenwagen-Abteilung zurück und verläßt die Gesellschaft. |
| Lemoyne (Ohio) |
12.09.1910 |
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Three persons were killed and at least ten more or less seriously injured, when Hocking Valley passenger train No. 38 was wrecked between Lemoyne and Cummins, near here. The dead:
GEORGE MILBOURNE, Columbus, engineer on locomotive.
L. C. ENGLER, road foreman, Columbus.
G. J. DeVILBISS, superintendent of motive power, Columbus.
It is reported that the wreck was due to collapse of parts of the locomotive, which was of new design and was being tested under the direction of Superintendent DeVILBISS and Foreman ENGLER. The yardmaster's office at Toledo reported that the accident was probably caused by a broken rail. The train was running at a speed of about 15 miles an hour. The entire train left the track. |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
21.09.1910 |
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A soldier, practically identified as Private William J. Hengen, Company F, Twenty-sixth United States Infantry, was struck and instantly killed in the night at 8:15 o'clock near Shadeland crossing, a short distance this side of Fort Benjamin Harrison, by an inbound Muncie car on the Indiana Union traction line.
Although the body of the soldier was so badly mangled that it was impossible to distinguish the features, it was almost positively identified by the color of the hair as that of Private Hengen by Corporal A. E. Coates and Private James Henderson, who belong to Company F. Private Hengen was missing from the Maneuver Camp last night.
The car which killed the soldier was in charge of Motorman John Matheney of Indianapolis, who said that he sounded a warning, but was unable to check the car's speed before it struck the man. A train was passing on the Big Four tracks, which run parallel to those of the I.U.T. and it may have been that Hengen did not hear the whistle. He was walking toward the car, which was running at a high rate of speed.
Both legs were severed and the chest was crushed.
ON WAY TO MEET SISTER.
Hengen left the Maneuver Camp at 1 oâ??clock, having said that his sister, Miss Rose Hengen, would arrive during the afternoon from Chicago, Ill., and that he wished to meet her. At the camp last night it was said that Hengen was a man of good habits and that he rarely drank. He enlisted Sept. 16, 1908, and it was his first enlistment. His regular station was at Sault Ste, Marle, Mich. His home was on East Union street, Lafayette, Ind. |
| Plover (Wisconsin) |
21.09.1910 |
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The train left here on time at 2:30 and was entering on the north and west of Plover station. The brakeman had thrown the swtich[sic] and then jumped on the forward end to throw another switch farther down. The engine passed over as did also the forward truck of the combination passenger coach and express car, but before the rear trucks reached the switch it was thrown back. The mistake was not noticed soon enough to be rectified, and soon things commenced to present a dangerous aspect. The engineer stopped as quickly as possible, but not quick enough to prevent the rear trucks being torn loose and the overturning of the car, which fell upon its side.
GUY E. MERRILL of this city, and BUY PIERCE of Plover, were the only occupants of the express car at the time. The former sat upon a box, and as the car fell over he landed between the stove and wall on the opposite side to where he had been sitting, while the box landed just above his head, narrowly missing him. Fearing the stove would follow, MR. MERRILL quickly regained his feet and scrambled out upon the ground, but not until one of his shins had been cut and he was considerably bruised. MR. PIERCE saved himself by jumping from the side door just as the car was tipping and had a narrow escape. The car was quite badly wrecked, but was righted the next day and taken to Green Bay for repairs. General Supt. FRANK B. SEYMOUOR arrived from Green Bay on the evening train and spent two or three days here looking after the wreck and settling up with those who were injured, visiting and interviewing several of them in company with DR. G. ROOD and DR. VON NEUPERT, JR. |
| Kingsland (Indiana) |
22.09.1910 |
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The authorities of Wells county and officials of the traction company today are making a rigid investigation to attach responsibility for the collision of two traction cars on the Bluffton line of the Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction company yesterday, in which forty persons were killed and eight injured.
Today Frank I. HARDY, superintendent of transportation of the traction company, stated that disregard of orders caused the wreck and that B. T. CORKWELL, motorman of the southbound train, probably is the one to blame.
The disaster, rated as the worst in all interurban history, occurred at a sharp curve, near Kingsland, six miles from Bluffton. The line is operated under a block system and until the railway makes public the orders issued the crews, it will not be definitely known which motorman was negligent.
The southbound car, the one going to Bluffton, was manned by Conductor DEL WILSON, of Ossian, and Motorman B. T. CORKWELL, of Fort Wayne. The northbound car, which was crowded to the steps with sightseers, was in charge of Conductor E. A. SPILLER and Motorman CHARLES VAN DINE, both of Bluffton. The four trainmen were injured, but all will probably recover.
It is said that CORKWELL was to wait at Greensboro, a station between Kingsland and Ossian, for the northbound train, but that, instead of doing this, he tried to meet the other car at Kingsland.
The crash came soon after the northbound car had left Kingsland. The cars were telescoped almost their entire length.
Out of forty-five or fifty passengers, but one man has so far been discovered who escaped entirely unhurt. Most of the deaths were instantaneous. |
| New Palestine (Indiana) |
22.09.1910 |
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Fred W. Claffey, 45 years old, driving near New Palestine, Ind., was thrown from a covered farm wagon five miles out on the Rushville division of the Indianapolis & Cincinnati line at 7:15 o'clock last night when an inbound express car, No. 403, struck the horse attached to the wagon and instantly killed the animal. Claffey sustained injuries to the right leg which necessitated amputation last night at St. Vincent's Hospital after he was brought to Indianapolis by the crew of the express car.
According to the crew of the Rushville car, Motorman Clyde Clarkson, 817 East Twenty-third street, and Conductor Harry Stricker, Rushville, the car was going at the rate of twenty miles an hour at the time it struck Claffeyâ??s rig. Motorman Clarkson said last night that he whistled for the road on which Claffey was driving, and before he reached the crossing whistled again for a curve just the other side of the road. Clarkson said the car was but ten feet away from the wagon when he saw it and that the car struck the vehicle full force.
The shock as the car struck the body of the horse, standing partly on the track, bent and broke the big headlight of the express. Pieces of flying glass from a front window, broken by the impact, sailed over the head of Conductor Stricker, who was sitting on the right side of the car, near the front windows. It was miraculous, according to the crew that Claffey was not killed instantly. |
| Terre Haute (Indiana) |
23.09.1910 |
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Northbound Southern Indiana passenger train No. 204 collided with an extra freight one mile south of Terre Haute tonight. JOHN CORNUTT, engineer on the passenger train, was fatally injured. Four others were seriously and a dozen painfully injured. It is said the wreck was due to a confusion of orders.
Besides Cornutt, who was crushed and scalded, the most seriously injured are:
C.W. BOHLING, fireman, internal injuries.
JESSE HAMMOND, car repairer, internal injuries.
WILLIAM BROWHILE, track worker, skull fractured.
I. CARPENTER, car repairer, crushed internally.
The seriously injured were brought to St. Anthonyâ??s Hospital here, while others who needed little attention went to their homes.
Prof. W.A. McBeth of the Indiana State Normal School was caught in the wreckage of the passenger train, but escaped with a bruised leg. |
| Tipton (Indiana) |
24.09.1910 |
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A headon collision on the Peru division of the Indiana Union Traction company between a passenger and freight, resulted in the death of six persons and serious injured to six more. The dead are:
DR. W. T. HOLTHOMERN, Brooklyn, N. Y.
WALTER HOLTHOMERN, Brooklyn, N. Y.
FERDINAND RAILSBACK, Hymeria, Ind.
JONCE BAKER, motorman.
LEWIS BROE, Kokomo, Ind.
B. F. WELSH of Marshall, Mich. |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
25.09.1910 |
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The inbound "Winona Flyer" on the Indiana Union traction line bumped with terrific force into a south-bound Union traction freight train at College avenue and Thirty-fourth street last midnight. A. B. CLEVELAND, 71 the Blacherne, Indianapolis, a passenger, and CALVIN TAYLOR, the motorman, and BERT TURNER, the conductor, were injured.
Taylor, the motorman, appeared to be seriously injured, and he was so dazed last night he could hardly tell how the accident happened. Seeing the back of the slow-moving freight a few feet ahead of his car, and with the picture of the disastrous Union Traction wreck near Tipton yesterday fresh in his mind, he leaped from the car. He fell, striking his head against the rail of a track, the road there being double-tracked
Turner, the conductor, was standing in the aisle at the time of the collision. He was thrown forward heavily and was seriously bruised, but was not apparently badly hurt. Turner declared that the freight car displayed no light at the rear, and he said the first he saw of it was when he was close enough to see its shadow from an electric light at Thirty-fourth street. It was running in the same direction as his car, but was not going as rapidly. The passenger car was only slightly damaged, but the second freight car - the train consisting of two cars - was badly wrecked. |
| Ashland (Wisconsin= |
01.10.1910 |
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A new steel mail coach was all that averted what might have been a serious wreck on the Chicago & North-Western railway this morning. The Ashland special No. 11 was running at a rate of about 30 miles an hour when it hit an open switch about one mile south of Odanah.
The smash-up occurred about 7:30 o'clock a. m. The train was running at that rate of speed and it was impossible to stop and struck several steel ore cars that were standing on the siding, throwing the engine over on its side and derailing the mail coach. Engineer Abrams was picked up in a semi-conscious state, but soon recovered. Fireman Lyman was in the act of pulling down the coal when he was thrown from the cab, receiving slight injuries. The passengers were all badly shaken up, but no one was injured. |
| La Porte (Indiana) |
03.10.1910 |
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Twenty persons were injured, six severely, when a Lake Erie & Western excursion train from Indianapolis crashed into a Lake Shore freight train on a siding here early this morning. The freight crew was switching and it is said no signals were displayed. The injured are: MRS. ESTA WARD, Los Angeles, Cal.; MRS. CHARLES MOORE, Michigan City; CHARLES MOORE, Michigan City; MISS LONG, Michigan City; MRS. L.B. ROEMPAGE, Laporte; H.J. STOWELL, Laporte; MISS MARY CHENEY, Michigan City; MISS CARSTEN, Michigan City; CONDUCTOR GEORGE TEEPLE; Indianapolis; J.A. DAVIS, Laporte; MICHAEL BASSETT, Peru, fireman; LOUIS BETRIPLE, brakeman; EDWARD WILLIAMS, brakeman, Indianapolis; NEAL BROOKS, Grand Rapids; and ANDREW GROSSEN, Holland Mich. Engineer Bassett of the excursion train says he was but fifty feet away when he saw the cut of freight cars and was unable to stop. He applied the emergency brakes, but the engine plowed half its way through a loaded freight car. His fireman was thrown out of the cab by the impact and he crawled out of the cab window after the accident. Two tramps riding on the baggage car were rescued with difficulty. None of the coaches left the track. |
| Staunton (Illinois) |
04.10.1910 |
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Knapp zwei Wochen nach dem vorherigen Unglück ereignete sich ein zweites, bei dem noch mehr Todesopfer zu beklagen waren. Daran beteiligt war ein aus zwei Teilen bestehender, südwärts fahrender Zug, in dessen zweitem Zugteil Ausflügler saßen, die an der Parade in St. Louis teilnehmen wollten. Ein Nahverkehrszug der Gegenrichtung sollte ihn in Staunton kreuzen. Obwohl dessen Lokführer wußte, daß der entgegenkommende Zug in zwei Teilen fuhr, setzte er den Nahverkehrszug in Bewegung, nachdem der erste Teil passiert hatte. Der Schaffner signalisierte ihm erfolglos, daß er anhalten möge, konnte den Zusammenstoß aber nicht verhindern. 36 Tote |
| Harpster (Ohio) |
21.10.1910 |
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Two dead, two fatally injured and 51 more or less seriously injured is the record of the wreck of Hocking Valley train No. 33, from Columbus to Toledo, which jumped the track near Harpster. Railroad officials refuse to talk.
The train was pulled by the same new type of engine as was used in the wreck near Toledo of Sept. 12, when a defect in the engine was blamed for the accident. The engineer said after the wreck that the had the steam cut off and was coasting.
The train carried an extra baggage car filled with EDWARDS' performing animals. This car left the rails but did not overturn. None of the animals was injured, but their owner, in a passenger coach, had his right shoulder and left hand badly cut.
The train was 15 minutes late and was making high speed, when for some cause, as yet unknown, it left the track. The engine, tender and baggage car jumped over the ties until they came to a standstill, but two passenger coaches swerved over and off a 15-foot embankment.
The wreck occurred half a mile south of the station and the first word about it was conveyed by telephone. The operator called for aid from the train dispatcher's office at Columbus, and relief trains were rushed from Marion and Columbus. |
| Muncie (Ind.) |
26.10.1910 |
Broderick Co. |
James Quinlan läßt das seit einem Jahr anhängige Gerichtsverfahren gegen seinen Partner Michael Broderick über eine Forderung von 150.000 fallen. Quinlan brachte vor, daß Broderick nach dem Umzug aus Montpelier durch falsche Darstellungen und Andeutungen seinen Partner dazu gebracht hatte, die Hälfte seiner Anteile, 250.000 Teile, für 100.000 zu verkaufen. Broderick verkaufte dann die Hälfte davon an die "National Supply Co." für 100.000, den Preis, den er für alle Anteile von Quinlan bekommen hatte. Quinlan warf Broderick vor, er habe den falschen Eindruck erweckt, das Unternehmen verliere Geld, und holte Leute, die sich die Firma ansahen, als ob Broderick seinen Anteil verkaufen wollte. Daher forderte Quinlan, den Handel rückgängig zu machen und seinen Schaden von 250.000 wieder gut zu machen. Er gibt keine Erklärung, warum er die rechtiche Verfolgung aufgibt. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
01.11.1910 bis 31.12.1910 |
Hudson |
Ende 1910: 17. Platz auf dem Absatzmarkt der USA |
| Copper Harbor (USA) |
06.11.1910 |
---- |
Durch Feuer zerstört in Copper Harbor, Michigan |
| Kalamazoo (Mich.) |
13.11.1910 |
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Six persons are dead and twenty-six injured, four probably fatally, as the result of a collision between a street car on the Kalamazoo city lines of the Michigan United Railways company and a westbound express train on the Michigan Central railroad, last night. All the dead and injured were passengers on the street car.
The train was running into the city at high speed, and as it rounded a curve it crashed into the street car.
Conductor VERN VAN HORN, of the street car, was standing between the Michigan Central double track. VAN HORN claims he did not see the train or hear it, until it was directly upon him. It was then too late to stop the car. The train hit the front end of the car, tearing it to bits. Mangled passengers, living and dead, were carried on the front of the engine nearly a block before the train was brought to a stop.
Motorman ABBOTT with the cut-off was pulled from under the engine unconcious. The living were lifted from the front of the engine and with those taken from the ruins of the street car, were hurried to hospitals.
The passengers who were caught in the cars were burned and shocked from an electric current that was continually running through the metallic parts of the car until the trolley was removed.
MISS ELVIRA CRAIG was frightfully burned. Her back was a mass of charred flesh. For nearly a minute she lay in the street with her clothes ablaze before being discovered. Shortly after her removal to the hospital she died.
MISS CORA FRENTHOWAY lay all night beside the track unconscious from terrible injuries. She was removed to her home some time today.
The railroad companies refused to give out a statement concerning the wreck, but have already begun an investigation. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
22.12.1910 |
Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. |
Ein Brand verursacht einen Schaden in Höhe von $400.000 und kostet einundzwanzig Feuerwehrleuten das Leben |
| New City (Chicago) |
22.12.1910 |
Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. |
Ein Brand verursacht einen Schaden in Höhe von $400.000 und kostet einundzwanzig Feuerwehrleuten das Leben |
| Nevada (Ohio) |
24.12.1910 |
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Three trainmen and three passengers were killed and a dozen other passengers injured in a collision of a Pennsylvania express train and Pullman passenger train No. 15 from New York to Chicago, at Nevada, near Upper Sandusky, this morning.
A solid despress eastbound crashed into the westbound flyer. The west bound track was blocked by a stalled freight and the westbound passenger took the eastbound track and stopped under orders. The eastbound express should have also stopped but came on in a blinding snow storm and crashed into the westbound.
The tower man should have signalled the train to stop but whether he did or not is not known.
The dead are:
WILLIAM A. DOWLER, Chicago.
H. C. FRIEDSTEIN, of Chicago.
CHALRENCE C. MILLER, student engineer of Fort Wayne.
GEORGE H. HORTON, baggagemaster.
DEWITT C. BEEBE, baggagemaster of Ft. Wayne.
C. C. CRAIG, engineer on the express.
The injured include two trainmen and half a dozen passengers. None are seriously hurt.
The impact crumpled the engine and the first Pullman in the passenger train, being of wood construction, buckled up and the passengers were crushed in their berths.
Relief trains were rushed from Ft. Wayne and Bueyrus and local physicians rushed to the aid of the injured.
The wreck took place on a curve and the trains came together head-on.
The engineers of the eastbound trains are reported to have disregarded the block signals. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1911 |
Cudahy Packing Company |
Der Unternehmenssitz von "Cudahy Packing Company" wird von Omaha nach Chicago verlegt |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1911 |
International Harvester Company |
Im Werk Neuss von "International Harvester" werden landwirtschaftliche Maschinen gefertigt. |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
1911 |
Ahrens-Fox Manufacturing Company |
Bau der ersten benzinbetriebenen Feurspritze |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1911 |
Linde Air Products Company |
Die Union Carbide ist seit 1911 an der Linde Air Products beteiligt |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1911 |
Standard Oil Company of Ohio |
Das Oberste Bundesgericht löst durch das Anti-Trust-Gesetz die "Standard Oil" auf. Zu dieser Zeit bevollmächtigt John D. Rockefeller Henry M Flagler, seine gezeichneten 500 Aktien zu je $ 100 auf den "Standard Oil Trust" zu übertragen. Dieses erfolgt mit einem gleichzeitigem Aktiensplitting im Verhältnis 1:20, d.h. Rockefeller bekommt für seine 500 "Standard Oil of Ohio"-Aktien 10.000 Standard Oil Trust Aktien. |
| Danbury (Wisconsin) |
1911 |
Union Carbide |
Die Union Carbide ist seit 1911 an der Linde Air Products beteiligt |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1911 |
Chevrolet |
Beginn des Automobilbaues |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1911 |
Chevrolet |
Billy Durant schafft eine neue Marke, die Chevrolet genannt wird |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1911 |
Computing Scale Company |
Charles R. Flint erreicht den Zusammenschluß der International Time Recording Company, Computing Scale Company und der Tabulating Machine Company und bildet die Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R). |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1911 |
Ford Motor Company |
Ein weiterer Rekord wird auf dem Jahrmarkt in Detroit aufgestellt, als der Fahrer Frank Kulick eine neue Bestzeit für die Strecke von einer Meile erzielt. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1911 |
Hupmobile |
Bobby Hupp verläßt das Unternehmen, um die RCH zu gründen |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1911 |
Hupp, Bobby |
Bobby Hupp verläßt das Unternehmen, um die RCH zu gründen |
| East Chicago (USA) |
1911 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Der Verwaltungsrat der "Baldwin Locomotive Works" stimmt der Erwerbung von 370 acres (= 1.497 ha) in East Chicago, Indiana, zu. Anschließend werden Pläne für den Bau eines Werks für die Herstellung von Radreifen und Rädern als Teil der "Standard Steel Works Co." und für den Bau von Lokomotivteilen für Baldwin entwickelt. |
| East Chicago (USA) |
1911 |
Standard Steel Works Co. |
Der Verwaltungsrat der "Baldwin Locomotive Works" stimmt der Erwerbung von 370 acres (= 1.497 ha) in East Chicago, Indiana, zu. Anschließend werden Pläne für den Bau eines Werks für die Herstellung von Radreifen und Rädern als Teil der "Standard Steel Works Co." und für den Bau von Lokomotivteilen für Baldwin entwickelt. |
| Evansville (USA) |
1911 |
A. S. Baker Company |
Bis 1911 werden sieben Gebäude errichtet, alle aus Ziegeln, um das Brand-Risiko gering zu halten. |
| Fond Du Lac (Wisc.) |
1911 |
Harris Typewriter Company |
Gründung nach den Gesetzen des Staates New Jersey |
| Galion (Ohio) |
1911 |
Galion Iron Works & Mfg. Company |
Beginn der Produktion von leichten pferde-gezogenen Straßenplaniermaschinen (grader) |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
1911 |
Atlas Engine Works |
In den 36 Jahren seit 1875 wurden 35.000 Dampfmaschinen gebaut. Sie werden als "wenigstens etwas besser als irgendeine und einen großen Teil besser als die meisten Maschinen ihrer entsprechenden Bauart" bezeichnet. |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
1911 |
Stutz Motor Car Company |
Beginn des Automobilbaues. Henry Stutz konstruiert zunächst Rennwagen |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
1911 |
Stutz Motor Car Company |
Gründung durch Harry C. Stutz |
| Kenosha (Wisc.) |
1911 |
Rambler |
Neuerung: verschließbarer Tankverschluß |
| Kenosha (Wisc.) |
1911 |
Rambler |
Neuerung: verstellbare Lenksäule |
| Leavenworth (Kansas) |
1911 |
C. W. Parker |
C. W. Parker baut eine neue Fabrik in Leavenworth |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1911 |
B. V. Nordberg Manufacturing Co. |
B. V. Nordberg hat Pläne, mit Rudolf Diesel zu verhandeln, der die Produktion bei Carels Frères in Gent überwacht. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1911 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Errichtung der neuen Wagenreparaturwerkstätte Cold Spring |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1911 |
Nordberg, Bruno Victor |
B. V. Nordberg hat Pläne, mit Rudolf Diesel zu verhandeln, der die Produktion bei Carels Frères in Gent überwacht. |
| Ohio |
1911 |
Winterrowd, William Holland |
Heirat mit Mabel Virlinda Kurfess Winterrowd (1888–1936) |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1911 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 24278 - 26599 (2322 gebaute Einheiten) |
| South Milwaukee (USA) |
1911 |
Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredge Company |
Die Gesellschaft wird in öffentliches Eigentum umgewandelt. |
| Algonac (USA) |
09.02.1911 |
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Durch Feuer zerstört in Algonac, Michigan |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
27.05.1911 |
Kilby Manufacturing Co. |
Tod von W. S. Dodge. Danach wird J. F. Whitelaw Präsident |
| Bluffton (Indiana) |
29.05.1911 |
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Six persons were seriously injured by flying glass when a northbound limited and a southbound local car on the Union Traction line collided six miles south of Bluffton.
The collision was caused by air brakes on the limited failing to work. Both cars were crowded. The injured were taken to a Fort Wayne hospital. The seriously hurt are: THOMAS NUTTER, Warren; FRED HULL, Bluffton; JOHN FRANTZ, Bluffton; JOHN WHACKER, Bluffton; JAMES D. LAWRENCE, Muncie, MRS. LAWRENCE. |
| Oscoda (USA) |
11.07.1911 |
Henry M. Loud's Sons |
Bei einem verheerenden Stadtbrand, ausgelöst durch Funken einer Lokomotive, verbrennen das Sägewerk (mit 1000 acres Holzlager) und drei Viertel der Stadt. Auch die Schwesterstadt AuSable brennt zum größten Teil ab. |
| Rock Island (Illinois) |
14.07.1911 |
Rock Island Mfg. Co. |
Patent für ein Gasbügeleisen |
| Hammond (Indiana) |
06.08.1911 |
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The Pennsylvania 18-hour train, en route from Chicago to New York was wrecked near Hammond, Ind., although no one was killed. A fireman was injured and the passengers were severely jolted. |
| Fort Wayne (Ind.) |
13.08.1911 |
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Four persons were killed and 30 injured when the Pennsylvania 18-hour train, en route from Chicago to New York, jumped the track on the western outskirts of the city at 6:30 o'clock this evening while going at the rate of 50 miles an hour.
In leaving the rails the two engines pulling the passenger train sideswiped a freight engine and the three piled up in a mass of bent and twisted iron.
The baggage car, smoker, buffet, and two sleepers turned over in the ditch. Most of the injured were seated in the diner and smoker when the accident occurred.
The wreckage has not been cleared and the list of dead may be more than the number reported. The thirty or more injured are now in the hospitals, and it is believed that at least four or five will die. It is also feared there may be some bodies in the wreckage. |
| Columbus (Ohio) |
18.08.1911 |
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Fifty persons were injured, some of them seriously, to-day when Big Four Train 46, one of the fastest trains in the service, was ditched near the Ohio State Hospital for the Insane, just west of Columbus. The wrecked train is known as the New York & New England Special, and left Cincinnati at 8:30 for New York, being due in Columbus at 11:40 a.m.
It was made up of a mail car, baggage car, three day coaches, a diner and two Pullmans. As the train rounded a curve at the Grand View Avenue crossing of the Toledo & Ohio Central tracks the front trunks of the second day coach climbed a switch point and the car was derailed.
Bumping over the ties at the rate of forty miles an hour, the derailed coach pulled the other coaches from the track, and two of the coaches toppled over a ten-foot embankment. |
| Fremont (Wisconsin) |
05.09.1911 |
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Three men were killed and forty injured, some seriously when a Soo line passenger train struck a misplaced switch and was wrecked a mile south of Fremont (Ohio) today. The engine was completely demolished and all but two cars left the track.
The engine and mail cars of the train were thrown 200 feet, landing in a corn field. The other coaches, with the exception of two Pullmans, went into a ditch. The engineer of the wrecked train and two unidentified men were killed. A woman from Duluth and a tramp from Detroit are among the injured who will probably die. |
| Marion (Indiana) |
21.09.1911 |
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Fireman GEORGE BERGER was perhaps fatally injured and Engineer PAUL STEPPICK seriously hurt when the second section of the Clover Leaf freight train, No. 42, an Armour meat train, was wrecked Marion this morning. Ten cars and two engines were demolished. The wreck was caused by a pony truck of the first engine becoming derailed at a frog, the locomotive plunging down a fifteen-foot embankment. BERGER and STEPPICK, both of whom reside at Delphos, O., were in the first engine.
BERGER'S jaw, nose and right ankle were fractured, and he suffered serious internal injuries. STEPPICK'S right elbow was fractured and he sustained ugly injuries to his body, together with a serious nervous shock. C. E. DREWERY, engineer, of Frankfort, and E. J. DASH, fireman, of Delphos, O., who were in the second engine, escaped with slight injuries.
BERGER and STEPPICK are under treatment at the Grant County Hospital. The wreck has not been cleared, although the track is in use. The railway company will suffer an enormous loss, in view of the fact that ten cars and two engines were destroyed, as well as the contents of the cars. |
| Neenah (Wisc.) |
24.09.1911 |
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Whirling along at the rate of a mile a minute, a Chicago & Northwestern passenger train, half an hour late, early yesterday morning crashed into a hayrack load with 31 young people here, killing 12 of them outright and injuring eight others, one of whom died shortly after and three of them so badly that they are believed to be fatally hurt. The collision occurred at 3:40 o'clock at the Commercial street crossing in Neenah. Train No. 121, north-bound, whirled through the wagon load of people at the 45-degree angle. This peculiarity was due to the fact that the highway crossing is a diagonal. A big billboard along the railway tracks obscured the view from the locomotive as well as from the wagon. Dust and fog did the rest. Nine of the 31 people on the hayrack escaped without a scratch, and so did both horses. Nobody on the train suffered except from the jar. Peter Hanson, driver and owner of the horses attached to the ill-fated rig, managed to hang to the reins and was the only person on the rack who was not temporarily stunned by the collision. He declares he looked in both directions along the track but did not observe the onrushing train until his team had reached the track. He whipped up the horses, but managed to get the wagon only half way across.
The train, it is said by pasengers[sic] was nearly half an hour behind schedule. The fact that the engine stopped on the second corner from the intersection where the collision occurred, a distance of more than 800 feet, is evidence that the speed was great. It is said, however, that the rails were slippery from the rain and made the stopping of the train difficult. |
| Owosso (USA) |
25.09.1911 |
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Almendinger, of Flint, Mich., and Miss Mare B. Baughman of Lansing, were killed and Burr J. Warner of Flint were seriously injured late today when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Grand Trunk passenger train at a crossing four miles from Owosso. |
| Mauds (USA) |
24.10.1911 |
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About 4 o'clock Tuesday morning a freight wreck occurred on the Big Four railroad about a mile north of Mauds to south-bound train No. 71, as a result of a drawbar pulling and dropping to the track. As a result six cars were derailed and ditched blocking the road.
The train was running at a high speed and the cars were wrecked with contents and piled in a heap.
Five of the cars contained a consignment of automobiles, which were more or less damaged beyond repair. The remaining car contained merchandise.
In examining the wreckage it was discovered that three tramps who were stealing a ride on the train went down with the wrecked cars. One who was riding under one of the cars was rescued without being fatally injured. He told of the other hobos who were still under the wreckage. The wrecking train, which has been sent, will be necessary to locate the two missing tramps and rescue them. The loss caused by the wreck will be fully $15,000, the value of the automobiles alone being over $5,000. As a result of the wreck all Big Four trains were obliged to detour via the C. H. & D. railway. One of the first was the Arkansas Product exhibition train of seven cars with lecturers. |
| Battle Creek (Mich.) |
12.1911 |
Advance Thresher Company Inc. |
Rumely kauft im Dezember die "Advance Thresher Co." und die "Gaar-Scott & Co." und eine kurze Zeit später die "Northwest Thresher Co.". M. Rumely Co. baut eine Verkaufsorganisation für die Produkte der drei aktiven Firmen auf. |
| La Porte (Indiana) |
12.1911 |
Advance-Rumely Co. |
Rumely kauft im Dezember die "Advance Thresher Co." (Battle Creek, Michigan) und die "Gaar-Scott & Co." (Richmond, Indiana) und eine kurze Zeit später die "Northwest Thresher Co.". M. Rumely Co. baut eine Verkaufsorganisation für die Produkte der drei aktiven Firmen auf. |
| Calumet (Michigan) |
bis 1912 |
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company |
Die Kupferproduktion fällt auf 67 million pounds (30.000 metrische Tonnen) |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1912 |
Chicago Tunnel Company |
Umfirmierung aus "Illinois Tunnel Company" |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1912 |
Chicago Writing Machine Co. |
Verlegung der Produktion nach Galesburg |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1912 |
Chicago Writing Machine Co. |
Verlegung der Produktion von Chicago nach Galesburg |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1912 |
Crane Elevator Co. |
Tod von R. T. Crane. Seine zwei Söhne übernehmen die Leitung des Familienunternehmens |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1912 |
Illinois Tunnel Company |
Umfirmierung in "Chicago Tunnel Company" |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1912 |
American Blower Company |
"American Blower" gründet die Tochterfirma "Canaian Sirocco Company Ltd." in Windsor, Ontario (in den 1990er Jahren geschlossen). |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1912 |
General Motors Corporation |
Charles W. Nash wird im Alter von 48 Jahren Präsident von General Motors |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1912 |
Hudson |
Tod von J. Hudson |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1912 |
Hudson, J. |
Tod von J. Hudson |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1912 |
James Scripps-Booth |
Beginn des Automobilbaues |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1912 |
Nash, Charles W. |
Charles W. Nash wird im Alter von 48 Jahren Präsident von General Motors |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1912 |
Packard |
Packard stelt sein erstes Sechszylinder-Automobil vor. |
| Galesburg (Ill.) |
1912 |
Chicago Writing Machine Co. |
Verlegung der Produktion nach Galesburg |
| Galesburg (Ill.) |
1912 |
Chicago Writing Machine Co. |
Verlegung der Produktion von Chicago nach Galesburg |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
1912 |
Atlas Engine Works |
Der Benzinmotorenbau von Atlas Engine wird von "Lyons-Atlas Company" übernommen |
| Kalamazoo (Mich.) |
1912 |
Clarage Company |
Industrieventilatoren und Gebläse werden der Porduktionslinie hinzugefügt. |
| Kalamazoo (Mich.) |
1912 |
Clarage Company |
Umbenennung in "Clarage Fan Company" |
| Kenosha (Wisc.) |
1912 |
Charles W. Nash |
Charles W. Nash wird im Alter von 48 Jahren Präsident von General Motors |
| La Grange (Cook, Illinois) |
1912 |
Blomberg, Martin |
Martin Blomberg wandert nach Kanada aus und arbeitet in Trois-Rivières bis 1914 in einer Papierfabrik. Nebenbei studiert er an Technisches Zeichnen und Mechanische Konstruktion in einer Abendschule. |
| La Porte (Indiana) |
1912 |
M. & J. Rumely |
Erwerbung der "American-Abell Engine & Thresher Co." in Toronto, Ontario. Es folgt der Kauf der "Northwest Thresher Co." in Stillwater, Minnesota |
| Lima (Ohio) |
1912 |
Lima Locomotive Works |
Umfirmierung in "Lima Locomotive Corporation" |
| Marion (Ohio) |
1912 |
Marion Steam Shovel and Dredge Company |
Aufgrund von Streitigkeiten über den Firmennamen mit der ähnlich lautenden "Marion Steam Shovel Company" Änderung der Firmierung in "Osgood Shovel Company" (Der Name Osgood" tauchte bereits bei der Vorgängerfirma von William Carmichael in Albany, N.Y., auf) |
| Marion (Ohio) |
1912 |
Osgood Shovel Company |
Änderung des Firmennamens aus "Marion Steam Shovel and Dredge Company" wegen Streitigkeiten mit der ähnlich lautenden "Marion Steam Shovel Company". - Der Name Osgood" tauchte bereits bei der Vorgängerfirma von William Carmichael in Albany, N.Y., auf. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1912 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Das Depot in der Fond du Lac ersetzt die alten in der Chestnut und der 12th Street . |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
1912 |
Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company |
Die "Kenosha Electric Railway Company" (gegr. 1896) wird von der "Wisconsin Gas & Electric", eine Tochter der TMER&L Co., erworben. |
| Mount Vernon (Posey, Ind.) |
1912 |
Keck-Gonnerman Company |
Keck-Gonnerman wird Ford-Händler |
| Peoria (Ill.) |
1912 |
Avery Manufacturing Machinery Co. |
Das Gesellschaftskapital beträgt $2.500.000 |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1912 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 26600 - 28851 (2252 gebaute Einheiten) |
| Rockford (Ill.) |
1912 |
Emerson-Brantingham Implement Co. |
Übernahme der Geiser Mfg. Co. in Waynesboro. Die Produktion der "Peerless"-Maschinen in Waynesboro wird fortgesetzt. |
| South Bend (Indiana) |
1912 |
Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company |
Die Produktion der Marken Garford, EMF und Flanders wird eingestellt |
| Two Rivers (Wis.) |
1912 |
Kahlenberg Brothers |
Einführung von Halb-Dieselmotoren (Start mit Benzinbetrieb, dann Umschaltung auf Einspritzung) |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
11.01.1912 |
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The Twentieth Century Limited on the Lake Shore Railroad came in collision with a Chicago & Eastern Illinois train just outside the LaSalle Street Station at 11:23 oâ??clock today.
Ten persons were injured and 115 were imperiled. All the injured except one were on the Twentieth Century Limited, which telescoped three cars of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois train that had just discharged its passengers and was backing out of the depot.
The crash was attributed to the failure of the empty train to observe signals. The engine of the flier hit the rear coach with terrific force, sending it half way through the coach ahead and piling the two rear coaches on top of the car ahead of them. The two coaches were torn to pieces by the impact.
The limited was nearly three hours late. The only person seriously injured was ARTHUR EATON, 20 years old, a porter on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois train, who sustained internal injuries. |
| Crawfordsville (Indiana) |
13.01.1912 |
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E. B. TOBIAS of Urbana, Ill., was killed and S. H. O'BRIEN, also of Urbana, was seriously injured in a freight wreck on the Big Four, three miles west of Crawfordsville today.
TOBIAS was a freight conductor and was seated in his caboose when another train, running only a few minutes behind crashed through the car. Oâ??BRIEN was in the caboose with TOBIAS, but was thrown clear of the wreckage and suffered a badly sprained back.
Eight Cars Splintered.
The engine of the rear train was derailed and tipped on its side at the edge of an embankment. The engine crew escaped uninjured.
Eight loaded freight cars were reduced to kindling wood, and several others which remained on the track were badly damaged. The wreck was not cleared up until late tonight. |
| Carey (Ohio) |
14.01.1912 |
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Fifty passengers on Big Four train No.1 from Detroit to
Cincinnati are reported to have been hurt in a wreck which occured early this
afternoon four miles south of Carey, O. Two of the day coaches left the track
because of spreading rails. These two cars went into a ditch alongside the track.
Physicians from Carey were hurried to the scene of the wreck and many of
the injured were taken to a hospital in Kenton. Several of those hurt, but not
seriously, were cared for by the residents of Carey.
It is understood that none of the passengers was hurt fatally.
Among the injured are Miss Pearl Stoner, New Albany, Ind., back sprained, internal injuries; Maurice W. Taylor, Union City, Ind., head bruised; Joseph Orne, Indianapolis, head and body bruised. |
| Kinmundy (USA) |
26.01.1912 |
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Five persons were killed and more that a score injured when Seminole Limited No. 3 running fifty miles an hour crashed into the rear and telescoped passenger train No. 25 standing at the station at Kinmundy, Ill. A private car of the Great Northern, attached to the rear of train No. 25, was demolished. The occupants of the private car were either killed or seriously injured.
Four persons were killed in the private car of F. O. MELCHER, second vice president of the Rock Island railroad. Among the dead is J. T. HARAHAN, SR., former president of the Illinois Central. The private car was attached to the Seminole Flyer No. 25, which was standing, taking water when No. 3 struck it, the engine of No. 3, plowing through the private car.
The dead:
J. T. HARAHAN, SR., former president of the Illinois Central.
F. O. MELCHER, vice president of the Rock Island.
E. B. PELICE, general soliciter.
ELDRIDGE E. WRIGHT, attorney, son of former Secretary of War LUKE E. WRIGHT of Memphis.
______ PAYNE, engineer of No. 3, Champaign, Ill. |
| Grand Rapids (Michigan) |
02.1912 |
Fox Typewriter Co. |
Das verbesserte Schreibmaschinenmodell 24 wird angeboten |
| Larwill (USA) |
17.02.1912 |
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The Pennsylvania Limited, westbound, the corresponding train to the fast eastbound train which was wrecked at Warrior's Ridge, Penn., on Thursday, crashed into a work train at Larwill, Ind., twenty-five miles west of Fort Wayne, at 5:55 o'clock, central time, this morning, killing four persons and injuring eleven.
According to officials of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad Company here, the wreck was due to the failure of the engineer of the limited to observe the danger signal or the red flag of the flagman on the work train. At the time of the accident, it is said, the weather was very foggy. The fog, which is blamed for the wreck, was so dense that a flagman sent back from the work train was not seen by the engineer of the limited. The work train had been stopped by a trackman, who reported a broken rail ahead, and while the investigation was in progress the limited dashed into the caboose of the train ahead. The wreckage caught fire, and two of the dead were burned almost beyond recognition |
| Aurora (Ill.) |
Frühling 1912 |
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Shops |
Die "Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railraod" stellt fünf von Baldwin gebaute Lokomotiven der Santa Fe-Type (Achsfolge 1'E1') in Dienst. Sie haben Zylinder mit d= 30" (762 mm) und h= 32" (813 mm) und Treibraddurchmesser von 60" (1524 mm). Ihr Dienstgewicht beträgt 378.000 pounds |
| West Lebanon (Indiana) |
07.03.1912 |
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Five persons were killed and nearly three score injured tonight at Redwood bridge, two miles west of West Lebanon, Ind., by the derailment of the Continental Limited train, west bound, on the Wabash railroad. All the cars left the rails and some of them turned over. A broken rail is said to have caused the accident. Two cars are said to have rolled partly into the creek, the derailment taking place at the end of the bridge.
The locomotive remained upright on the rails. Word was sent as soon as possible to division headquarters at Peru, Ind., and Decatur, Ill. Delay was caused by the wires being torn down by the coaches as they rolled over.
Wrecking and relief trains rushed to the scene from the east and west began the work of rescue. The wounded were rapidly placed aboard a special train composed of two cabooses and hurried to Danville.
Several of the injured may die and it is said others may be dead in the wreckage.
The train was going toward St. Louis and passengers were preparing to eat dinner as the train approached Redwood bridge near the Illinois state line. Without a jolt at first, the whole train seemed to weave to one side and then the coaches rolled, crushed together and piled up alongside the track. The baggage and mail cars suffered much as they led the rest of the train from the track.
Nearly every passenger on the train was hurt by the rolling over of the cars. Those persons in the coaches that were crushed suffered more severe injuries. Two or three were killed instantly, but others were pinned down by seats or splintered timbers and mangled to death more slowly. |
| Shelby (Ohio) |
19.03.1912 |
Shelby Electric Company |
Die "General Electric Company" übernimmt die "Shelby Electric Company". - Die Fabrik arbeitete in den Jahren zuvor unter dem Namen "Richland Mazda Lamp Company", aber die Verkaufsabteilung, geleitet von W. W. VanHorn, arbeitete als "Shelby Electric Company, welche nach dem März 1912 "Shelby Lamp Works" genannt wird. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
04.1912 |
B. V. Nordberg Manufacturing Co. |
Der Direktor Jacob E. Friend stirbt plötzlich in Italien |
| Newark (Ohio) |
22.04.1912 |
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Enroute to the postoffice to secure a money order for a letter that his mother had given him, MARION WILLIAM DANKMER, aged 10 years, was run down by a Pennsylvania passenger train Monday afternoon at 3:25 o'clock, while walking along the tracks in East Newark between Morris and Arch streets.
The lad was instantly killed, the back of his skull being crushed like and egg shell. His identity was not established definitely until later in the afternoon, after the family had been notified of the accident by the Advocate.
Immediately after the boy was struck, a hurry call was sent for the ambulance of Bazier & Bradley, but the boy was dead before the ambulance crew arrived on the scene. The body was taken to the morgue of the undertakers, where Coroner Wayiarch viewed it before ordering it prepared for burial. A little while after this the identity of the child was established.
After preparing the body for burial it was removed to the home of his father, William Dankmer, at 217 Allston street, in the Helsey addition, where the funeral services will be held.
The boy was born in West, Virginia, Aug. 13, 1902, and he is survived by several brothers and sisters, besides the bereaved parents. The father is employed at the Holophane Manufacturing Company's plant in East Newark.
The funeral services will probably be held Wednesday, but it has not been decided at what hour. The body may be taken back to the former home in Virginia for interment. |
| Utica (Ohio) |
22.04.1912 |
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LOREN DIAL, age 55 years, a resident of Mt. Vernon, was struck and instantly killed here about 12:30 Sunday afternoon by the second section of B. and O. passenger train No., 7. The accident occurred at a point a few hundred feet south of the station. Dial was waiting to go to his home and had been wandering about the companyâ??s right of way for some time previous to the accident.
Dial came to Utica Saturday afternoon and late in the evening he was place in the village lockup in an intoxicated condition, for safe keeping. He was released Sunday morning that he might go to his home. The only train north bound, which stops at Utica is No. 3, due about 2:15 and he was waiting for the arrival of this train.
The train which struck him was late and Dial was not expecting it. It is evident that he became confused and failed to realize his danger until too late. He was struck and hurled from the tracks. May bones were broken and death must have been instantaneous, though the wheels of the engine or train did not run over him.
The accident was witnessed by a number of persons about the station. Then body was carried to the baggage room and Coroner Wiyiarce notified. He made a hurried trip to Utica in an automobile and viewed the body and took the testimony of several witnesses. He will render a verdict of accidental death.
Dial was a married man and is survived by his wife and five children, three of whom live at his home in Mt. Vernon. He was a stone mason and was well known in Knox and Licking counties.
The body was removed to his home in Mt. Vernon where the funeral and burial will take place. |
| Antwerp (Ohio) |
26.04.1912 |
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Four men were so seriously hurt that they will probably die, and eight or ten others were badly injured this evening when the westbound Wabash train, known as the â??Fast Mail,â? went into the ditch near Antwerp, Ohio.
The accident was due to the spreading of rails. CHESTER LAW, of Napoleon, Ohio; Dr. W.O. WELLS, of Fort Wayne; CHARLES M. SARBER, Argos, Ind., and J.B. YATES, mail clerk, of Toledo were critically injured. The victims were brought to Fort Wayne hospitals. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
01.05.1912 bis 31.12.1912 |
B. V. Nordberg Manufacturing Co. |
Nach dem Tod von Jacob E. Friend übernimmt B. V. Nordberg die Firmenleitung, obwohl er als Konstrukteur (mit blauem Hemd und abnehmbarem Celluloid-Kragen) glücklicher ist. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
01.05.1912 bis 31.12.1912 |
Nordberg, Bruno Victor |
Nach dem Tod von Jacob E. Friend übernimmt B. V. Nordberg die Firmenleitung, obwohl er als Konstrukteur (mit blauem Hemd und abnehmbarem Celluloid-Kragen) glücklicher ist. |
| Owen (Wisconsin) |
24.05.1912 |
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Minneapolis-Chicago Limited Passed Over Bridge One Hour Earlier. Accident West of Owen.
Part of the Soo line freight train, No. 21, which passed through here at 10:40 o'clock Thursday morning went through the bridge over the Black river, west of Owen, Thursday night. The bridge held up until the engine was safely across but gave way when the freight was about half over. Thirteen cars of merchandise were precipitated into the river. No lives were lost.
The Minneapolis-Chicago limited, which arrived here at 4:50 o'clock this morning passed over the bridge about one hour before the freight train went through. That no one was injured in the accident is almost a miracle.
The bridge, which is a modern steel structure, was weakened by the high water. It will probably require several days to erect a new bridge and in the mean time all traffic will be detoured over the old Soo line through Ladysmith. |
| Madison (Wisconsin) |
Sommer 1912 und 1913 |
Madison-Kipp Corporation |
Der Student Thomas E. Coleman findet Arbeit bei Madison-Kipp und arbeitet dort in den Sommern 1912 und 1913. |
| Geneva (Illinois) |
04.07.1912 |
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When the eastbound Los Angeles Limited of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad hit an automobile at Nelson's Crossing Tuesday two miles west of Geneva, Ill., four persons, two of whom, a man and a woman, were beheaded, were killed. They had left Chicago on the return trip. The road on which they were driving runs parallel with the railroad tracks until it reaches a point two miles west of Geneva. Then it takes a straight turn over the tracks. GEORGE HANLEY was at the wheel and drove the automobile down onto the tracks directly in front of the Los Angeles Limited. Before they even had a chance to know that they were trapped the pilot of the locomotive, running fifty miles an hour, struck the automobile amidships. It was smashed to pieces. All in the car but JAMES HANLEY were trapped. He was dashed 75 feet through the air, landing in the ditch at the side of the track. |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
12.07.1912 |
Kilby Manufacturing Co. |
Tod von Joseph F. Kilby |
| Lafayette (Indiana) |
12.07.1912 |
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The engine and nine loaded coal cars were wrecked on the Monon railway at Little Wea bridge near Lafayette, when the train, which the engineer was unable to stop, after being flagged, ran into the bridge on which laborers were repairing track. B. P. Young, brakeman, of Lafayette, was seriously injured. He was through over telegraph wires against a wire fence. |
| Junction City (Wisconsin) |
13.07.1912 |
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Frank Pendelski of Junction City was struck by Soo line train No. 6 as it approached that village this morning and received injuries from which he died about an hour later. Pendelski was walking west, with a pitch fork over his shoulder, between the main and passing tracks, when the train, traveling at a good rate of speed, bore down upon him. He had been walking close tot he main track and did not step aside as the train neared him. The pilot of the engine struck him and he was thrown to the ground unconscious. Medical assistance was called and at first his injuries were considered slight, but it later developed that his skull had been pierced. He died without regaining consciousness. |
| Hinsdale (Illinois) |
15.07.1912 |
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Coroner Hoffman today continued his efforts to place the blame for the wreck on the C. B. and Q railroad in which thirteen persons were killed and nearly fifty injured. The Illinois State Railway commission joined in the investigation, while the railroad is making a separate probe.
It is positively settled today that efforts were made to stop the Omaha mail train at Western Springs where the accident occurred just before it hurled into the rear end of the Overland limited, bringing death and injury to the passengers in the two rear coaches of the stationery train.
Mrs. F. A. Wilcox, tower operator and also telegraph operator at Western Springs, received the message that No. 8, the mail train, was coming toward the motionless limited, full speed.
"If I had another minute," Mrs. Wilcox said, "I would have been down the track to flag the train. I had the boards against her, but felt sure she would go past in the fog."
Mrs. Wilcox said she heard the danger signal, the three torpedoes exploded by No. 2, and heard the crash. Then she phoned for doctors and nurses and fainted.
E. P. Eustis, passenger traffic manager places the blame for the wreck on George Bronson, engineer of No. 8, who died at the throttle and John Woodruff flagman of No. 2 who placed the torpedoes. |
| Western Springs (USA) |
15.07.1912 |
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Fourteen persons met almost instant death, two died while being rushed to hospitals and 40 others were injured when the Omaha mail train on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, going at a speed of nearly 60 miles an hour, crashed into the rear end of the Denver limited passenger train No. 2 at Western Springs, Ill., 18 miles west of Chicago. Pending and official investigation, P. S. Eustis, passenger traffic manager of the railroad, is a statement, placed the blame of the accident on the engineer of the passenger train, which ran past the signal set for stop at Western Springs, clearing the west block at Hinsdale.
Hot Box Stops Passenger.
The passenger train, No. 2, from Denver, due in Chicago at 7 a. m., stopped at Wester Springs because of a "hot box" on one of the rear Pullman coaches.
At Western Springs Train No. 2 and the mail train, No. 8, run about nine minutes apart. Because of the heavy fog it is believed by some that the engineer of train No. 8 failed to see the signal at Hinsdale, a mile and a half west of the point where the collision occurred. |
| Columbus (Ind.) |
08.1912 |
Reeves & Company |
Verkauf an die "Emerson-Brantingham Co.", Rockford, Illinois |
| Antioch (Illinois) |
31.08.1912 |
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About 10 o'clock Saturday night Fireman ED. FARRELL, residing at the Park hotel, North Fond du Lac, fell from the tank of a locomotive at Antioch, Ill., and sustained painful injuries to his back. FARRELL was firing an extra east, and had gone out onto the tank to attend to filling it with water. He was brought home on No. 7 and taken to the hospital. FARRELL at first lost control of his limbs, but he has since regained the use of them and his injuries are not considered serious. |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
Sept. 1912 |
Kilby Manufacturing Co. |
Nach dem Tod von Präsident J. F. Whitelaw im September wird W. T. Burnham sein Nachfolger. |
| Lyndhurst (Wisconsin) |
01.09.1912 |
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Seven men were killed and twenty-five injured, several fatally, when the Northwestern railroad's Chicago and Ashland limited train was wrecked between Bowler and Lyndhurst, nine miles west of Shawano, early Sunday morning.
Hits Washout.
The train was speeding southeast, and ran into a washout between Bowler and Lyndhurst shortly after 2:30 o'clock.
The engine was thrown to one side, the smoker was thrown fifty feet to the right and a Pullman sleeper, occupied by two men was thrown thirty feet to the left, injuring all of those in the car. The baggage car, which was immediately in the rear of the engine, was telescoped, pinning four of those killed under the wreckage. The roof of the baggage car was ripped off and thrown fifty feet.
Three Sleepers Derailed.
The first, second and third sleepers were derailed, but the four coaches following remained on the tracks.
Among the more seriously injured were several members of the Wausau baseball team of the Wisconsin-Illinois league. WILLIAM KERWIN, formerly of the Chicago Cubs pitching staff, probably will never pitch again. His skull was fractured and he was taken to Chicago in a serious condition. GLENN DAVEY, shortstop, likely will lose his arm. |
| Camp Douglas (USA) |
02.09.1912 |
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CARS HURLED INTO FLOOD-SWOLLEN RIVER WHEN BRIDGE IS WASHED AWAY.
Camp Douglas, Wis., Sept. 2. -- Four persons were killed in the wreck of a passenger train on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad, which plunged into the Lemonweir River near Camp Douglas to-day, owing to the washing away of a bridge. Twenty-six persons were injured, six seriously.
Every car, including the sleepers with passengers still in their berths, was hurled intro the stream, whose waters, augmented by the cloudburst of last night, had made it a torrent. Panic-stricken occupants of the sleeping cars, clad only in night clothes, struggled through broken windows to escape. The smoking car was carried downstream, but all its occupants escaped.
The dead are Engineer RALPH THOMPSON, Fireman ABRAMSON, a mail clerk whose name is unknown, and the baggageman named LEE.
The train had passed safely over the bridge a short time before, but was flagged at Tunnel, because a washout further on had made the track impassable, and was ordered back to Camp Douglas, so that the passengers might breakfast.
Meanwhile the Lemonweir, flooded by a cloudburst several miles up the valley, had torn away the bridge, and, unwarned, the engineer could not stop his train in time to save it from plunging into the river.
Relief trains bearing doctors and nurses were sent out from several nearby towns. |
| Fond Du Lac (Wisc.) |
03.09.1912 |
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SAW CARS AHEAD; JUMPED FROM CAB.
Fireman J. M. Freenor Suffers Fracture of Two Ribs
Saturday was a Jonah day on the Soo line as far as accidents were concerned. Fireman J. M. Freenor, residing at the corner of Scott and Doty streets, fearing a collision with some cars which were standing on the main line at the depot at Antioch, jumped from the engine cab and sustained two fractured ribs. Freenor says he thought the cars where nearer than they were, and he thought a smash-up was inevitable. He was brought to this city on No. 7 and is now at his home. The accident happened at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon. |
| Hustler (Wisconsin) |
04.09.1912 |
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Another wreck occurred at Hustler, a little station on the Omaha road near Camp Douglas on Monday, where three were killed and several injured. This wreck was also caused by a washout which wrecked a bridge and let the train go thru.
One of the worst wrecks which ever occurred on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Onaham railroad took place about two miles east of Camp Douglas when the train ran into a washout, resulting in the death of four persons, six persons seriously injured and a score or more slightly cut and bruised and suffering from shock. Most of the latter are women.
The dead are: Thompson, engineer; Abraham, fireman; Lee, baggageman, and a mail clerk, name unknown.
The train had been flagged at Tunnel City on account of a washout just west of Elroy and later was ordered to back up to this city. When the train reached Lemonweir river, it found the high bridge and banks on both sides gone, and plunged into the whirling mass of water below.
That so many escaped death, considering the fact that all of the coaches plunged into the river and piled up, is miraculous.
The smoking car was carried several hundred feet downstream, but several hundred feet downstream, but all its occupants escaped. |
| Harmon (Ohio) |
17.10.1912 |
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A Wheeling and Lake Erie passenger train tonight plowed into a party of men and women returning to their homes in Somerdale, Ohio, from the Tuscarawas County fair, at Canal Dover, five miles south of here, killing three people outright, injuring one fatally and two seriously and leaving but one man to spread the alarm and call assistance. The accident occurred near the Wheeling and Lake Erie depot at Harmon. The party of seven had gone to Harmon from Canal Dover to catch a train to their homes in Somerdale. Rather than wait about the depot an hour and a half until the train came, they decided to walk up the track to Brewster, the terminal, two miles away. There are tow tracks at this point and when an eastbound freight train came along they stepped onto the westbound track. The rear of the passing freight prevented their hearing the approaching train from the rear and before they looked around it cut them down like grass before a scythe.
John Miller, who escaped injury, told the story tonight as he sat in the hospital as he awaited the outcome of an operation on his wife. |
| Allenton (Wisconsin) |
24.10.1912 |
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Soo Express is Wrecked at Allenton. LIST OF INJURED. Edward Lueloff, Colby, Wis., slight scalp wound.
Louis Lueloff, Curtis, Wis., contusions in region of back. T. F. McGee, Minneapolis, foot bruised and back hurt. R. Mayers, member of train crew, Chicago, bruised. T. J. Kelly, porter on buffet car, Chicago, bruised about ribs. Carl Arnold, mail clerk, Chicago, left wrist hurt. While traveling at a rate of 55 miles an hour, the Chicago and Minneapolis Express on the Soo line, leaving Chicago at 2:15 a. m. and due in this city at 6:31 a. m. was wrecked at the south end of the house track near the Allenton station at 6:40 o'clock this morning, six cars, including a sleeper, buffet car, two passenger coaches, a mail car and a baggage car leaving the track, two of them, the sleeper and the mail car overturning in the ditch. The wreck was caused by a broken rail, according to information furnished by division officials at North Fond du Lac this morning. It is believed that the rail broke after the heavy locomotive had passed over it, for the locomotive and tank did not, leave the track, only the rear trucks on the tank being off. That the train crew and passengers, escaped without serious injury is declared by the railroad officials to be remarkable. The speeding train jolted over the ties for its entire length before coming to a stop. The locomotive and tank broke loose from the train and traveled several train lengths before being brought to a stop. |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
18.11.1912 |
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Three persons met death and three others sustained injuries when a switch engine in the Brightwood yards of the Big Four railroad crashed into an empty lumber car early to-day.
The dead: M. P. CHRISTIE, switchman, Indianapolis; EDWIN FOOKS of Columbus, O.; ROY BURTON, address unknown.
The injured; HARRY SMALL, 19, Aberdeen, O.; LAWRENCE PAGGETT, 18, Loveland, O.; WALTER C. CLINE, 20, Cincinnati. O.
Five of the victims were circus employes [sic] and were making their way to their Ohio homes by an inexpensive method. |
| Ashtabula (Ohio) |
17.12.1912 |
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Seven dead and seven injured was the toll of the wreck at Ashtabula, O., when a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad coal train struck a street car. Complete investigation of the huge pile of wreckage and coal that resulted from the collision revealed but one additional body, that of DAVID STOWE. The dead are:
LAURA LEAPHART, MRS. FRANK C. BARTLETT, MRS. W. H. COOK, MRS. GEORGE KITSON, and MR. AND MRS. DAVID STOWE of Ashtabula and MRS. JOHN C. ESPY of Willoughby.
All the injured are expected to recover.
Immediate investigation of the cause of the wreck will be made. McCUTCHEON, motorman of the car, is held by the police.
The street car was directly in the center of the crossing when the heavy coal train crashed into it. Neither the engine driver nor his fireman saw the car until it was too late to slow down.
The engine driver and fireman after setting the brakes jumped and escaped uninjured.
The heavy locomotive tossed the car aside as though it was a toy. The passengers who escaped death were thrown through the windows, thus avoiding being crushed beneath the wreckage under which the others were killed. The motorman and conductor were thrown thirty feet or more, but escaped with cuts and bruises. |
| Kiel (Wisc) |
17.12.1912 |
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Fireman ANTONE SCHEMICK of Green Bay was killed outright and Engineer MATHEW FOLEY of Milwaukee died of his injuries, the result of passenger train No. 2 of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway from the copper country, running into a freight train at Kiel early today.
While none of the passengers was seriously injured, a number were said to have been badly shaken up.
NO PASSENGERS HURT
Superintendent Hastings returned from Kiel this noon and reported no passengers had been injured. The track is almost cleared of the wreckage.
SCHEMICK, the dead fireman, was married about a year ago. FOLEY was a veteran in the service of the road.
A third body, that of ALBERT ALLARD of Wayside, Wis., was later found in the wreck. The accident was caused by the engine of an extra freight train moving on a side track where it did not clear the main track.
Among those injured are P. F. Honey, mail clerk of Superior, Wis., and Comet Bennette, a passenger, Santa, Wis. The injuries will not prove fatal. |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1913 |
Fairbanks, Morse & Co. |
Baubeginn von Semi-Dieselmotoren |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1913 |
Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co. |
Verwendung länglicher Tasten |
| Chicago (Ill.) |
1913 |
Griffin Wheel Foundry Company |
Franklin L. Whitcomb wird zum Präsidenten gewählt |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) |
1913 |
Ahrens-Fox Manufacturing Company |
Ahrens führt die ersten Kreiselpumpen ein, bar diese werden kein Standardprodukt in der Ahrens-Fox-Produktlinie |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1913 |
Chandler |
Beginn des Automobilbaues |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
Jan. 1913 |
Kilby Manufacturing Co. |
T. W. Burnham wird Präsident |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1913 |
Linde Air Products Company |
Carl von Linde verliert in den folgejahren nach der Gründung (1907) zunehmend Einfluß auf seine amerikanische Tochter. 1913 ist der deutsche Einfluß auf die amerikanische Tochter nur noch unbedeutend. |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
1913 |
Peerless |
Alle Modelle erhalten elektrische Anlasser |
| Columbus (Ohio) |
1913 |
Columbus Buggy Company |
Bankrott und Übernahme durch die Gläubiger mit George Lattimer als Präsident |
| Dayton (Ohio) |
1913 |
Platt Iron Works Co. |
Edward C. Wells wird von der Eigentümer-Bank nach Dayton geschickt, wo der die Mißstände aufdeckt. Er entläßt die MItglieder des Polo-Teams und auch Edwin F. Platt und übernimmt die Firmenleitung. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1913 |
American Blower Company |
Kauf von Luftwascher-Interessen einschließlich der Patenrechte von "McCreery Engineering Co.", Detroit |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1913 |
Ford Motor Company |
Ford versucht mit einem umgebauten Modell T am Indianapolis 500-Rennen teilzunehmen, wird aber nicht zugelassen mit der Begründung, der Wagen müßte erst um weitere 1.000 Pfund schwerer gemacht werden, bevor er sich qualifizieren könne. Ford verläßt das Rennen und steigt kurze Zeit später komplett aus dem Renngeschäft aus. Als Begründung für seinen Ausstieg nennt er seine Unzufriedenheit mit den Bestimmungen im Rennsport, sowie den gesteigerten Bedarf an Zeit für sein florierendes Geschäft mit dem Modell T. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1913 |
Ford Motor Company |
Für die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit sind Rennen nicht mehr nötig - das Modell T ist berühmt und allgegenwärtig auf Amerikas Straßen. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1913 |
Ford Motor Company |
Henry Ford hat eine besondere Einstellung zu seinen Beschäftigten. Sie hatten einen 8-Stunden Arbeitstag und bekommen 1913 bereits ein ansehnliches Gehalt von 5 US-Dollar pro Tag. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1913 |
Ford, Henry |
Henry Ford hat eine besondere Einstellung zu seinen Beschäftigten. Sie hatten einen 8-Stunden Arbeitstag und bekommen 1913 bereits ein ansehnliches Gehalt von 5 US-Dollar pro Tag. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1913 |
James Scripps-Booth |
Scripps-Booth konstruiert, inspieriert von Bedelia, ein Cycle Car |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
1913 |
Saxon |
Beginn des Automobilbaues, ein Leichtwagen mit vier Zylindern. Der Gründer des Unternehmens ist Hugh Chalmers, vorher Gesellschafter von Chalmers-Detroit und Henry Ford. |
| Indianapolis (Ind.) |
1913 |
Duesenberg |
Die Brüder Fred und August Duesenberg beginnen Rennwagen und Motoren unter eigenem Markenzeichen zu bauen |
| La Porte (Indiana) |
1913 |
M. & J. Rumely |
Aufteilung in zwei getrennte Einheiten: die "M. Rumely Co." als Produktionsbetrieb und die Dachgesellschaft "Rumely Products Co." für den Vertrieb der Produkte von Rumely, Advance und Gaar-Scott. |
| Lafayette (Indiana) |
1913/14 |
Goss, William Freeman Myrich |
Prof. Goss wird Präsident der "American Society of Mechanical Engineers" |
| North Dayton (Dayton) |
1913 |
Platt Iron Works Co. |
Edward C. Wells wird von der Eigentümer-Bank nach Dayton geschickt, wo der die Mißstände aufdeckt. Er entläßt die MItglieder des Polo-Teams und auch Edwin F. Platt und übernimmt die Firmenleitung. |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
1913 |
J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company |
Vergebene Fabriknummern für Dampfmaschinen: 28852 - 30767 (1916 gebaute Einheiten) |
| South Whitley (USA) |
09.03.1913 |
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Three men were painfully injured and property damage amounting to about two thousand dollars was done when two Nickel Plate freight trains came together at South Whitley shortly afternoon. The injured:
OTTO G. FIELDS, fireman; head cut, face torn and body bruised.
CHARLES A. BOYCE, engineer; bruised about body.
GEORGE MILLS, fireman; cut about the head and face.
All the injured trainmen live in Fort Wayne. The wreck was caused by what is known among railroad men as â??short flagging.â? The trains both were sections of No. 38, and the first stopped at a curve because of engine troubles. The second section swung around and plowed into it. |
| Valparaiso (Indiana) |
10.03.1913 |
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Mrs. Anna Hinkel, aged thirty, for years a character at the town of Valparaiso, Ind., is dead as the result of injuries she received when she was struck by a Pennsylvania train last night. She was found by several men who were walking on the tracks, and died at the Christian hospital.
According to the Valparaiso police department, the woman had been drinking and wandered on the tracks while under the influence of liquor. It is not known what train hit her.
She was found close to the south rail of No. 1 track, about seventy feet west of the depot building, and one leg was terribly mangled. An ambulance was called and she was hurried to the hospital, where she died early this morning. |
| Root River (USA) |
14.03.1913 |
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The relief train returned from the scene of the Root River wreck shortly before noon, bringing the body of the dead fireman and the injured engineer. MRS. ALMA NELSON, the morther of NEWTON NELSON, the fireman, rushed through the crowd at the station when the train drew in, and hurled herself with cries of grief upon the body of her son. NELSON was 33 years old.
Physicians in charge of the wounded engineer expressed the hope that he would recover.
Passengers of train No. 8, brought to La Crosse on the relief train, attributed their escape from death largely to the vigilance of Engineer WHITING, who fearing trouble at this point, had slowed his train down to 12 miles an hour when he struck the washout. He stuck to his engine to the last and went over with it. |
| Knightstown (USA) |
21.03.1913 |
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Three passengers were seriously and several others slightly hurt in a scramble to leave a T. H. I. & E. traction car near here when a collision seemed inevitable. The badly hurt are:
MRS. SARAH CROSSFIELD, Sixteenth street, Indianapolis; back badly wrenched â?? and bruised about head and shoulders.
C.D. ELLIOTT, Lexington avenue, Indianapolis; dislocated shoulder; severe bruises.
W.D. HELVEY, VanBuren, Ind.; ankle broken and severe contusions about hips.
The passenger car was proceeding at high speed when a freight car came from the opposite direction, also moving rapidly. As the brakes were applied by the motorman of the passenger car he shouted a warning and there was a scramble to leave the car. In the crush the injuries were sustained.
The two cars were stopped within a few inches of each other without damage. (Illegible) McGuire was conductor and Mack Reynolds motorman of the passenger car. The freight was in charge of by John Herbs. The matter of the two cars coming toward each other on the same track is being investigated. |
| Fort Wayne (Ind.) |
23.03.1913 |
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Sunday night, soon after the wind storm had swept across western Indiana and piled things up promiscuously on the railways Fireman Martin Howe was badly injured as he leaned out of the cab of the engine pulling as the second number of No. 3. The train was passing a freight at the time and a car roof that had been loosened by the wind struck him. One of his arms was broken and his shoulder and head were cut and bruised. The train was in charge of Conductor C. W. Zeigler and Engineer Grover Miller was at the throttle. |
| Milwaukee (WI) |
16.04.1913 |
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. |
Bildung der "Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co." mit Otto Falk als Präsident |
| Fort Wayne (Ind.) |
25.04.1913 |
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Elmer E. Baker, aged four years and eleven months, is dead as the result of injuries received when he fell from a Wabash freight train which he hopped on the elevation near Thompson avenue about 8:30 this morning. The baby, with his brothers, Edgar, aged ten, and George, aged eight, had climbed the elevation opposite their home, 2415 Thompson avenue, and got aboard a west-bound freight. When two hundred feet from the crossing the youngster lost his grip on the car, fell to the rails and was cut in two. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Baker.
"I saw it happen," said little George, who had been hanging to the same car. "He began to slip and his legs hung down, and then at last he fell on the tracks and was run over. Then I was afraid to jump, and hung on till the train stopped away down the track. He didn't know how to ride the trains just right, you see it was his first ride on a freight. Yes, he often went up on the elevation, but he never tried to jump a moving train before." |
| Cleveland (Ohio) |
Mai 1913 |
Division Avenue Pumping Station |
Vorbereitende Arbeiten zum Bau des 10-Fuß-Tunnels von der Verbindung der 5- und 7-Fuß-Tunnel bei Crib 4 zum neuen Einlaßbauwerk, 4 Meilen vom Ufer entfernt. |
| Detroit (Michigan) |
05.1913 |
Ford Motor Company |
Ford führt im Mai die Fließbandfertigung in seinen Fabriken ein, welche ihm eine enorme Produktionssteigerung erlauben. |
| Ann Arbor (USA) |
20.05.1913 |
Hewlett-Packard GmbH |
Geburt von William (Bill) Hewlett in Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Ann Arbor (USA) |
20.05.1913 |
Hewlett, William (Bill) |
Geburt von William (Bill) Hewlett in Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Calumet (Michigan) |
Juni 1913 |
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company |
Ausruf eines Generalstreiks im Kupferbezirk von Michigan mit Hunderten von Arbeitern, welche andere an der Arbeit hindern. Die Gewerkschaften fordern ein Gehalt von 3 Dollar pro Tag und einen Achtstundentag |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
11.06.1913 |
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Schwer beschädigt durch Kesselexplosion in Racine Wis. |
| Riverton (Illinois) |
12.06.1913 |
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Marooned on a railroad track in front of a westbound train, with their automobile engine "dead," four men met death at Riverton, seven miles east of Springfield, when the train crashed into the machine. The dead are:
P. J. CARROLL.
E. IVORSON.
J. H. GAUER, Chicago.
GEORGE BARTEL, Springfield. |
| Fulton (Indiana) |
28.06.1913 |
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The intense heat making the rails spread, is given as the cause of a wreck of the Chesapeake & Ohio road's passenger train No. 6, known as the "Fast Flying Virginian," in which twenty-five persons were injured near Fulton, twenty miles northwest of Peru, this afternoon. Two pullman cars and a diner turned over, but no one was killed. The engine and the combination baggage and smoking car remained on the track, although the train was making forty miles an hour.
George Gordon, negro chef, of Richmond, Va., was the most severely injured. He was scalded by the overturning of the coffee urn. Among others hurt were Gordon Smith, Charlottesville, Va., collar bone and arm broken; W. E. Bell, Richmond, Ind., back wrenched; Mrs. Bell, face and back bruised; Scott McDonald, Huntington, W. Va., general storekeeper for the road, cut severely by broken glass and bruised; Mrs. McDonald, sprains and minor bruises; Miss Esther McMannis, Shannon City, Iowa, ankle sprained and cut by glass; R. C. Cosby and L. A. Briggs, Chicago newspaper man, cut and bruised, and Paul Phiel, Muncie, Ind., cut about face and head.
The injured persons were removed to Peru hospitals. A special train from here took physicians and nurses to the wreck. It was said in the hospitals to-night that all the patients would recover. |
| Cambridge (Ohio) |
13.07.1913 |
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Four persons were killed and 16 injured when Baltimore and Ohio passenger train No. 15, westbound, struck a Cambridge and Byesville interurban car at a grade crossing a mile and a half from the center of Cambridge at 7:15 in the night.
The wreck was caused by the conductor of the traction car thinking the headlight of the locomotive was a flash of lightning and signalled the motorman to go ahead.
The Dead
FRED RAINEY, 32 years old, Cambridge.
BOLA FAIRCHILD, 32 years old, Cambridge.
WILLIAM CARTER, 22 years old, Middlebourne, Ohio.
EDWARD McNEELY, Columbus.
The Fatally Injured
SHELDON STILES, Cambridge.
The Severely Injured
MR. and MRS. J. B. CARTER, Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
B. T. CLAUDIE, WILLIAM BURLINGAME, S. D. FARRAR, MIKE SOLOMON, THOMAS SILLS, FRANK JONES, MRS. JACOB BAXTER and four children, all of Byesville.
SHERMAN McNEELY, Columbus.
The interurban, which runs between Cambridge and Byesville, stopped at the crossing, and Conductor WILLIAM LENNER went ahead to see if the track was clear. He looked up the track and saw the headlight, but a driving wind and rain, accompanied by almost constant lightning and thunder, prevented him from seeing or hearing distinctly, and he thought the light was only lightning.
The interurban car was reduced to kindling wood. All of those killed and the one fatally hurt were in the rear end of the car, which was a closed winter coach. The engine was derailed.
Passengers helped in the work of rescue. The injured were taken to Cambridge and Keenan hospitals. |
| New Richmond (Wisconsin) |
09.08.1913 |
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New Richmond.--North-bound local limited pasenger[sic] train on the Omaha road ran over an unidentified man near Burkhardt. He died shortly after being taken in train enroute to this city. There was nothing on the man to identify his body. He evidently was a laborer, sixty years old, six feet tall and weight about 175 pounds. He had lost two fingers on his right hand. |
| Oshkosh (Wisc.) |
09.08.1913 |
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Horace O. Warner (*23.06.1881) of this city was instantly killed in a head-end collision between a southbound work train and a northbound coal special at Oshkosh at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Warner was the engineer on the special and is reported to have been literally ground to pieces in the wreckage of the engine.
The wreck occurred on a curved track and the work train, which was loaded with ties, was slowing up for the derail switch at the bridge, when the special coming up from the south at a great speed, pushed by a helping engine, crashed into it. A statement as to where the blame lies for the collision has not yet been received.
Both engines are reported to have been demolished and the one which had been pulling the special was turned completely around. Traffic was delayed for several hours. M. H. Lied of Rockfield and G. W. Brown of Fond du Lac, first and second firemen for Warner, jumped and escaped serious injury. E. Baney of North Fond du Lac, engineer on the work train, was injured and was removed to St. Mary's hospital in an ambulance.
A brief report of the accident was received here shortly after 5 o'clock, and soon after six another message was received announcing the fatal injury of Warner and asking that his relatives be notified. His brother-in-law, John Gaetz, and H. D. Boston left on the midnight train for Oshkosh to secure the body and returned with it this evening at 5:15. On arrival here the remains were taken to the Gaetz home at 621 Water street. |
| Racine (Wisconsin) |
09.08.1913 |
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Caught by a fast passenger train on the high Northwestern rail-road bridge west of the city. FRANK HOLY, a mechanic forty six years old, dived to the river, 60 feet below. He struck head first in the mud. The water was about three feet at the point. Part of his body remained above the surface. He leaves a wife and several children. |
| Stevens Point (Wisconsin) |
09.08.1913 |
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J.R. RITCHIE, employed as switchman in the local Soo line yards, had his left arm painfully crushed when it was caught between two couplings he was adjusting at about 5 o'clock Wednesday. Although the injury is not serious, RITCHIE will be off duty for some time |
| Superior (Wisc.) |
09.08.1913 |
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Superior. Indignant over the ore car collision in which three persons were killed and several injured, 250 dock workers struck. The accident is blamed to careless switching. The known dead: Nick Libest, laborer, Superior; John Koski, laborer, Superior; unidentified man, supposed laborer. The fatally injured: Isaac Isel, laborer, leg cut off; unidentified man, laborer, leg and arm cut off. Badly hurt; John Koshlo, bruised and cut by ore lumps; Charles Stanholm, laborer, bruised and cut; Reno Eskitine, laborer, bruised and crushed. A moving train ran into a standing train, throwing the workmen into ore pockets and covering them with ore. Within a minute several hundred workmen were on the scene, wildly digging into the pockets. All the ambulances in the city and a dozen doctors were summoned. The injured were removed to a hospital, which the dead were put in a switchhouse. |
| Waukesha (USA) |
09.08.1913 |
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Fireman Michael Crowley Meets Death at Waukesha
One man was killed and another injured in a headon collision between freight No. 23, west bound, and a switch engine on the Soo line about 1000 yards from the Northwestern railroad crossing near Waukesha, at 9:30 o'clock Tuesday morning.
Michael Crowley, who was firing on the switch engine, was killed and Otto Toll, engineer on the same locomotive, suffered a broken leg and his head was also cut. Crowley was 39 years old, lived at Waukesha, and leaves a large family. Engineer Toll lives at North Fond du Lac.
The freight train was in charge of Conductor Benedict. Engineer Charles Hill and Fireman Oscar Joseph jumped and escaped injury.
The switch engine was pushing one car and pulling several others at the time of the accident. The car ahead of the engine served as a cushion, when the crash came, and although the car was demolished neither the switch engine nor the one attached to the freight left the track. Six cars, which were being pulled by the switch engine, were derailed. |
| Whitefish (USA) |
21.08.1913 |
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Gesunken in der Whitefish Bay |
| Darke County (Ohio) |
09.09.1913 |
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An all-steel train probably saved a score of lives today when the Pennsylvania Flyer was ditched by a raised rail near Wylies station, four miles west of here, today, and 35 persons were injured. Three, it is believed, were fatally hurt, and 18 are in a hospital at Richmond, Ind. Those most seriously hurt are the engineer, fireman and a mail clerk.
Running at a terrific speed to make up time, the train struck the defective rail on the Columbus & Indianapolis division of the Pennsylvania railroad about 50 feet from the approach to a small steel bridge. The train ran along the cross ties until the engine hit one side of the bridge tore it from its foundation and fell with it half a dozen feet to the creek bed.
Six steel coaches were flung to the other side of the track and turned over in a field, the first car in the edge of the little stream. Two rear coaches, an observation diner and a Pullman remained on the track bed. |
| Wylie (Ohio) |
09.09.1913 |
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Train No. 51 [?], known as the St. Louis flier, on the Pennsylvania system, was derailed near Richmond, Ind.
The accident occurred while the train was running at a high rate of speed. Four cars were overturned.
Immediately following the wreck there was no telegraphic communication with Wylies station, where the wreck occurred, but the Pennsylvania railroad quickly sent a special train to the scene in order that a wire service might be established.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company was advised that no passengers were injured seriously in the wreck of the St. Louis flier at Wylies station, Ind.
A sixty foot steel stand bridge was knocked down, and it will take a day to make the necessary repairs.
The observation car was the first to leave the tracks.
Reports say that from thirty-five to forty persons were injured. Physicians were hurried to the scene. |
| Trempealeau (USA) |
20.09.1913 |
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ORIENTAL LIMITED PLUNGES INTO BURNING BRIDGE AND NO ONE IS INJURED SERIOUSLY.
When the Oriental limited, the Burlington's crack coast train, plunged through a burning bridge at Treaupealeau [sic] on Thursday. Fifteen were slightly injured and of the scores of passengers no one was killed. The property loss is $100,000 a baggage car, smoker coach and two tourist sleepers being burned when a gas tank under the diner exploded. The engine and Pullmans remained on the track. |
| Copper Harbor (USA) |
09.11.1913 |
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Schiffbruch bei Copper Harbour, Lake Superior |
| Harbor Beach (Michigan) |
09.11.1913 |
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Schiffbruch in "großen Stürmen" nahe Harbor Beach Michigan |
| Whitefish (USA) |
11.11.1913 |
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Absichtlich auf Grund gesetzt in "großen Stürmen" in Whitefish Bay, um weitere Schäden durch das Wetter zu vermeiden |
| Wooster (Ohio) |
12.11.1913 |
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Three persons were killed and a dozen injured, one probably fatally, when eastbound Pennsylvania train No. 52 was wrecked four miles west of here tonight. The passenger train was derailed, falling on another track in the path of a freight train and the second accident caused the fatalities.
The dead are:
HARRY KREAKIE, Shreve, O., passenger.
F. K. AMORS, address unknown, horseman.
Brakeman SCHAIBLE, Allegheny, Pa.
The engine and tender and baggage cars leaped the track under the viaduct, where the Baltimore & Ohio railroad crosses the Pennsylvania, four miles west of here. The panic-stricken passengers rushed out of the train into the path of a westbound freight train, and KREAKIE and AMORS were killed. Engineer C. M. CREASE of Allegheny, Pa., was so badly scalded that it is feared he may die. Fireman GASCOIGNE of Allegheny and Express Messenger DEMAREST of Mansfield also were seriously injured, but they will recover.
The greater part of the passengers who had crowded out on the track in the freight train's path leaped into a creek at the foot of the embankment and escaped. B. L. HAUK of Canton, a traveling salesman, stood at the exit of one coach and fought back the passengers who tried to get out, probably saving the lives of many of them.
Automobiles brought the dead and injured to this city. |
| Wickliffe (Lake, Ohio) |
12.12.1913 |
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Passenger train No. 16 of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad was derailed by a split rail at Wickliffe, about eighteen miles east of Cleveland, just before midnight. Three relief trains have been dispatched to the scene from here.
A member of the train crew is reported killed and several others are said to be injured.
Train No. 16 had five coaches and left Cleveland at 10:51 P.M.
Lake Shore train, No. 16, is known as the New York and New England Express on the Hudson Division of the New York Central. It is a fast train running between Chicago and New York, making but one stop on the Hudson Division. It usually carries six or seven coaches. |
| Marion (Ohio) |
17.12.1913 |
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Dudley Williams, fourteen years of age, son of Mrs. Edward Smith, of No. 817 Wood street, stumbled, while walking between tracks on the Hocking Valley railroad right-of-way near Darius street, at 12:30 o'clock today, and fell under a passing freight train the wheels severing the lad's right foot at the ankle. He was taken to the Marion City hospital in the Postle & Curtis ambulance where Dr. A. and Herman S. Rhu rendered surgical attention.
Williams, who was formerly a Star carrier and is well known throughout the city, was in the company of Carey Overshine, a lad of his own age who resides on Herman street. They were en route to the Olney Avenue school building where Williams is a pupil in the seventh grade. Some crushed stone, to be used in ballasting the roadbed had been roughly scattered between the tracks and while walking over it Williams lost his footing.
Stands Ordeal Well.
The lad's screams brought pedestrians to his assitance[sic]. All temporary aid possible was given. The boy's step-father, Edward Smith, employed in the erecting room of the Marion Steam Shovel company's plant, was summoned from his work and joined the injured boy at the hospital.
Williams displayed unusual nerve following the accident. He called those who gathered about him by name and although yet of tender years, did not shed a tear during the entire ordeal. |
