| Ort |
Zeit |
Firma |
Ereignis |
| Fort Scott (Kansas, USA) |
1900 |
Fort Scott Foundry and Machine Works Co. |
Albert W. Walburn zieht sich aus dem aktiven Geschäft zurück und verkauft das Unternehmen. Er erwirbt ein Anwesen in Knollwood Park in Elmsford, New York |
| Fort Scott (Kansas, USA) |
1900 |
Fort Scott Foundry and Machine Works Co. |
Nach dem Rücktritt von Albert W. Walburn Umbenennung in "American Foundry and Machine Co." |
| Hastings (Minnesota) |
1900 |
Star Works Manufacturing Co. |
Harris K. Stroud erwirbt das Gebäude |
| Iowa |
1900 |
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In Iowa sind 1900 100.606 Dampfmaschinen-PS vorhanden. |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
Anfang 20. Jh. |
Mayer Brothers, Inc. |
Die Firma erweitert ihre Produktionslinie stark durch Kessel, Benzinmotoren, Dampfmaschinen, Winden, Stahlträger, Auspuffe, Grabemaschinen, Wäscheleinen, Verkehrsrichtungsschilder, Straßenschilder, Holzbearbeitungsgeräte, Drehbänke, Bandsägen, Kreissägen, Spindelpressen, Traktoren und Straßen-Planiergeräte. Die meisten dieser Artikel werden nur eine kurze Zeit hergestellt. |
| Minnesota |
1900 |
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In Minnesota sind 1900 199.220 Dampfmaschinen-PS vorhanden. |
| Missouri |
1900 |
---- |
In Missouri sind 1900 191.558 Dampfmaschinen-PS vorhanden. |
| Newburg (MO) |
1900 |
Ozark Iron Works |
Das Metallwerk wird durch R. F. Schumann aus Rolla vom Hochofenwerk entfernt. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1900 |
Saint Louis Transit Company |
Der Umbau der Kabelbahnen in elektrische Straßenbahnen ist beendet. Alle Bahnen haben nur Oberleitungsbetrieb. |
| South Dakota |
1900 |
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In Indiana sind 1900 314.776 Dampfmaschinen-PS vorhanden. |
| Webb City (Missiouri) |
04.07.1900 |
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Zusammenstoß zwischen einem Güterzug und einem Straßenbahnwagen in Webb City, als dieser die Gleise der Missouri Pacific quert und als der Güterzug in ein Nebengleis zurücksetzt. 1 Toter und 12 Schwerverletzte |
| Stillwater (Minn.) |
14.12.1900 |
Minnesota Thresher Manufacturing Company |
Das Unternehmen wird in die Hände eines Konkursverwalters gegeben. |
| Hutchinson (Minnesota) |
20.12.1900 |
Hutchinson Utilities Comm |
Inbetriebnahme des ersten Elektrizitätswerks an der Main Street mit einem 60-kW-Dynamo und 80 Strom-Abnehmern |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
1901/02 |
Northern Pacific Railroad, Como Shops |
Bau einer zweiten Wagenwerkstätte |
| Millersburg (Iowa) |
22.10.1937 |
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The west-bound passenger train, No. 9, on the Wabash, scheduled to arrive in Chicago this morning, was wrecked two miles west of Millersburg at 9:35 this morning. All passengers were more or less hurt.
The accident was caused by a broken rail. The engine passed over the wreck in safety, but six cars following left the rails, one of them, the rear Pullman, rolled over on its side and slid down a 25-foot embankment.
The railroad officials were prompt in securing medical aid, and in a short time surgeons were hurrying to the scene on special trains from every available point in northern Indiana. The hotels at Miller, a suburb of Benton, several miles distant, were turned into hospitals.
No deaths have thus far been reported, but some of the injured are in a critical condition. |
| Stillwater (Minn.) |
06.05.1901 |
Minnesota Thresher Manufacturing Company |
Die "Merchants' National Bank" in St. Paul erhält einen Beschluß des Bezirksgerichts von Ramsey County gegen die Thresher Company, doch die Maßnahmen erweisen sich als unbefriedigend. |
| Stillwater (Minn.) |
25.05.1901 |
Minnesota Thresher Manufacturing Company |
Beschluß, das Vermögen des in Konkurs befindlichen Unternehmens zu verkaufen. |
| Marshall (Missouri) |
10.07.1901 |
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About 8 o'clock Wednesday morning a head-end colllision occurred about four and a half miles east of Marshall. Passenger train, No. 7, known as "The Hummer," with Conductor BOB DINSMORE in command and Engineer FRANK BRIGGS in the cab, headed westward, was met by a special freight, in charge of Conductor DAN McANNA and Engineer D. J. ANDERSON, going east. Both trains were rounding a curve at a high rate of speed, each unconscious of the approach of the other until too near together to prevent the appalling catastrophe which followed, and they came together with terrific force and deplorable results. The two engines appeared as telescoped and bound together by sheer force of concussion, and were thrown from and across the track, a mass of ruined mechanism and departed symmetry and power. The passenger train, composed of the usual Pullman, sleepers, chair cars and coaches, with the addition of a tourists' sleeper were jammed together in unshapely mass, piled upon and driven into each other, until the whole mass was in ruins, one Pullman bouncing upon top of the fallen monster engines, as if in an intelligent effort to land its burden of human souls beyond the bounds of danger. Several of the cars fire, and it was with difficulty that any of the passengers were saved from a crushed or fiery death. |
| Tiffin (Iowa) |
24.07.1901 |
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A passenger train on the Rock Island railroad ran into another which was going on a side track here this morning. A sleeping car was knocked over on its side and several passengers were injured, but none of them seriously. Following are the names of those hurt:
C. D. Reiter, East Orange, N. J.
Two children.
Frank L. Adams, Boston.
J. E. Dunreap, Denver.
A. M. Collins, Lebanon, Kas.
J. A. McGrear, Chicago, porter.
All the injured passengers proceeded to their destinations. |
| Burlington (Iowa) |
01.10.1901 |
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An electric car on the west hall line of the Burlington street railway became unmanageable while coming down Valley street hill -- a steep grade -- and dashed into a freight train at the Jefferson street crossing. The brakes and sand box refused to work. MRS. CHARLES KUPFER was killed and several others were injured, none fatally. George W. Stone, a commission man, was the most seriously hurt. The street car company is alone to blame for the crippled condition of the car. The motorman stuck to his post until within ten feet of the moving train. |
| Hopkins (Minnesota) |
1902 |
Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co. |
Advance Thresher und Minneapolis Threshing Maschine Co. kaufen die Fabrik von John Abell in Toronto, Ontario, und firmieren in "America Abell Engine and Thresher Co. Limited" |
| Kansas City (MO) |
1902 |
H. N. Strait Manufacturing Co. |
Die Firma wird an "Fairbanks, Morse and Company" verkauft. |
| Minneapolis (Minnesota) |
1902 |
Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Company |
J. L. Record (ehemaliger Präsident der "Barner & Record", Erbauer von Getreidespeichern, gegr. 1885), Otis P. Briggs und E. A. Merrill (beide bei den "Twin City Iron Works", Dampfmaschinenbau, gegr. 1889) gründen das Unternehmen. Briggs wird Vizepräsident und Merrill Finanzleiter. Beteiligt sind ferner L. S. Gillette und sein Bruder R. P. Gillette; ersterer war Präsident der "Gillette-Herzog Manufacturing Co.", die Stahl für die größeren Gebäude und Brücken in Minneapolis und St. Paul geliefert hatten; dieses Unternehmen wurde an die "American Bridge Co." verkauft, und R. P. Gillette wird Sekretär der MS&M |
| Minneapolis (Minnesota) |
1902 |
Twin City Iron Works |
J. L. Record (ehemaliger Präsident der "Barner & Record", Erbauer von Getreidespeichern), Otis P. Briggs und E. A. Merrill (beide bei den "Twin City Iron Works") gründen die "Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co.". |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1902 |
Kinloch Telephone Company |
Fertigstellung der Delmar-Vermittlung, gelegen am 4400 Delmar Boulevard. Sie hat 7.200 Leitungen und eine Zentralbatterie mit 22 V |
| Gifford (Iowa) |
17.02.1902 |
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Four lives were lost in a head-on collision on the Iowa Central railroad, one mile north of Gifford, when a light engine, northbound, crashed into a passenger train. The dead are:
WALLACE FREW, Keithsburg, Ills, engineer light engine.
JOHN WHITE, Oakaloosa, engineer passenger train.
FRANK PATTON, Marshalltown, fireman, light engine.
ELMER OGLE, Marshalltown, fireman, passenger train.
LAWRENCE J. GEGAN of Chicago, a traveling salesman, was badly bruised about the hips. A number of other passengers were slightly injured. Engineer FREW of the light engine should have cleared the passenger train at Gifford, but failed to do so. |
| Cedar Rapids (Iowa) |
22.04.1902 |
J. T. Carmody Foundry & Machine Co. |
Frank Sindelar, Betreiber eines gegenüber liegenden Saloons, bemerkt ein kleines Feuer an der Nordost-Ecke des ölgetränkten Daches. Er betätigt den nächstgelegenen Feuermelder, aber bis die Feuerwehr eintrifft, steht das ganze Gebäude in Flammen. Er vermutet als Brandursache Funken von einem kurz zuvor vorbeigefahrenen Zug |
| Argentine (Kan.) |
Mai 1902 |
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad |
Beschaffung einer Dekapod-Lokomotive mit Tandem-Verbundtriebwerk für den Güterzugbetrieb auf großen Steigungen. Erbauer: Baldwin in Philadelphia |
| Cedar Rapids (Iowa) |
um 1903 |
J. T. Carmody Foundry & Machine Co. |
Wiederaufbau der abgebrannten Fabrik. Sie besitzt einen Laufkran mit 50 tons Tragfähigkeit und zwei Kupoloöfen mit 10 bzw. 16 tons Kapazität sowie Luftkompressoren zum Nieten und Verstemmen |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
07.06.1902 |
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A trolley car running at full speed struck a wagon at Broadway and Wall street at midnight tonight smashing it into kindling wood. August Antrobius, twenty-three years old, a machinist, was killed. He fell under the wheels of the car and was dragged thirty feet being horribly mangled. Fred Meisert, Arthur Haimmerle and Charles Emmerer were badly cut and bruised but were unable to go to their homes after receiving medical attention. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
07.06.1902 |
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Twenty-five persons were injured today, two of them fatally in a collision between a car on the Clayton branch of the suburban electric line and a Missouri Pacific engine at the surface crossing in St. Louis.
The fireman and engineer of the railroad train were injured and removed to the hospital. Almost every one of the passengers on the trolley car was cut by flying glass or thrown against the door, window or seat. The injuries of a majority of the passengers were light, however, and they set about to rescue the less fortunate.
There were no physicians at hand when the collision occurred and it was twenty minutes before the injured received medical attention.
A majority of the victims were able to go in search of doctors themselves. Residents of Brentwood carried the others to convenient houses or placed them on neighboring lawns until physicians arrived.
Inability to control the electric car which ran into and derailed the engine seem to have been the cause of the accident.
Additional information from the scene of the wreck indicates that nearly forty-five persons were injured. The trolley car was shattered from end to end and almost everybody on board was hurt. It is considered miraculous that no one was killed outright. |
| Albia (Iowa) |
30.07.1902 |
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James Cark, a Wabash brakeman, escaped being killed by the cars while switching in the Wabash yards in Albia Sunday morning. He was between two freight cars making a coupling in a frog and held him fast. His presence of mind, coupled with unflinching nerve, saved him from a horrible death. Relizing that to remain fast in the meant swift and sure destruction by being cut to pieces by the wheels, he clutched hold of the ladder of one of the rapidly moving cars, and pulled himself by sheer strength loose from his dangerous position. His leg was almost wrenched from its socket by the strain and four toes of the foot were broken. Drs. Powell and Powell, the railroad company's surgeons, were called and rendered surgical aid. The injured man was taken to the hospital at Moberly, Mo., where he will have to stay for several weeks. |
| Humboldt (Iowa) |
17.08.1902 |
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A serious read end collision of two specials stock trains going east on the C. & N. W. occurred three miles west of Humboldt 1t 3:30 this morning. The leading train, a double header, was coming about twenty miles per hour. Conductor ROE HARLAN of Eagle Grove, jumped from the caboose but the truck struck him, cutting his head in halves and scattering his brains. The caboose was hurled thirty feet, smashing it. Six stockmen in it escaped with few bruises. The engineer, fireman and head brakeman, of the rear train jumped on the opposite side and escaped unharmed, except for the engineer. E C Norris, whose arm was broken. Their engine fell from the track and was totally demolished. The other engine was unharmed. Great crowds turned out to see the wreck from miles around. Blame is placed on the dead conductor for not placing out red lights. The real truth is not known. |
| Letts (Iowa) |
18.08.1902 |
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The El Paso limited on the Rock Island road was wrecked by a washout early this morning and five coaches and engine were thrown into the ditch a mile west of Letts. The train carried a heavy passenger list and there were many miraculous escapes from death. Many are reported injured, some, it is thought, fatally. The washout was caused by a cloudburst, accompanied by a terrific electrical storm. Two houses in the adjacent country are reported burned by lightning, and it is feared much other damage was done.
It is stated at the Rock Island general offices in Chicago that the baggage, mail, express and two cars of the train wrecked near Letts, were ditched and the engine and Pullmans remained on the track.
No one was fatally injured. The mail clerk and porter were seriously hurt. The passengers escaped with minor injuries. |
| Kansas City (MO) |
22.08.1902 |
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The grip car accident at Kansas City Friday evening in which Francis Fischer Powers of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was badly bruised and shocked, was one of the most serious wrecks that has happened in that city for several years. And there have been a number of bad accidents on that same deadly incline at Ninth street, near the Union station. More than one grip car has gone crashing down the steep hill to the foot of the drop and persons have been injured until now passengers never ride down this slope without a thrill of fright. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
09.1902 |
Moon-Hopkins Billing Machine Co. |
Die Rechenmaschine ist voll fabrikationsfertig |
| Birmingham (Missouri) |
02.09.1902 |
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An east bound Rock Island cattle train and an engine and caboose collided head-on near Birmingham, Mo., ten miles east of Kansas City last night, killing four trainmen and injuring three others.
The Dead.
JAMES SPEYER, engineer, Trenton, MO.
THOMAS GRAIDDITH, engineer, Trenton, MO.
CLARENCE MAHARDT, fireman, TRENTON, Mo.
C. W. BALLINGER, fireman, Trenton, Mo.
Injured: R. O. Gibson, severe: _____ Gibson, conductor, brother of above, serious: _____ Dudley, conductor, serious. The trains were running at full speed when they met. Both engines were demolished and the entire train of thirty cars was overturned. The train was heavily loaded with cattle and nearly 300 head of live stock were killed. |
| Brookfield (Missouri) |
13.12.1902 |
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A wreck, in which at least eight persons were killed, occurred on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad just east of this city early this morning. It is not known how many more bodies are in the wreckage, but there are believed to be several. The bodies of the known dead have been recovered.
The Brookfield wrecking train was on its way to the scene of an unimportant freight wreck, which occurred early in the evening, when the crane of the wrecker struck the overhead portion of a steel bridge just east of this city. Under the strain and the force of the engine pushing the wrecker, the bridge gave way and the entire train crashed into the water below.
The injured men were brought to this city. |
| Ottumwa (Iowa) |
1903 |
Ottumwa Iron Works |
Eintragung der "Ottumwa Iron Works" zur Herstellung von Bergbau-Ausrüstungen |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1903 |
Kinloch Telephone Company |
Fertigstellung der Saint-Clair-Vermittlung, gelegen an der Kreuzung der 5th und Missouri Avenues. Sie hat 5.000 Leitungen und eine 44-Volt-Zentralbatterie |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1903 |
Moon-Hopkins Billing Machine Co. |
Hubert Hopkins verkauft seinen Anteil an die American Arthometer Co. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1903 |
Union Terminal Station |
Erweiterung für die Weltausstellung |
| Topeka (Kansas) |
1903 |
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad |
Baldwin baut die erste Lokomotive der Santa Fe-Type (Achsfolge 1'E1'), die an die "Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway" geliefert wird |
| Hawarden (USA) |
27.05.1903 |
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A Northwestern passenger train was wrecked near Hawarden this morning by a wash-out. The engineer and fireman jumped. The injured foreman, THOMAS FIZER of Eagle Grove, Iowa, was placed in the rear coach. A relief train from Hawarden got beyond control of the engineer and crashed into the wrecked train, killling Fireman FISHER. The engineer was not seriously hurt. The passengers escaped with a shaking up. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1903 |
Kinloch Telephone Company |
Fertigstellung der Victor-Vermittlung, gelegen an der Kreuzung der Indiana und Ann Avenues. Sie hat 7.200 Leitungen und eine 44-Volt-Zentralbatterie |
| Raymond (Iowa) |
15.12.1901 |
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he list of dead from the Raymond wreck is eleven. The emigrant killed was W. H. RICKETTS of Epworth. FRANK KLEIN of the same town was beating his way in the emigrant car and was killed.
One of the tramps is believed to be TATE of Waterloo (Iowa).
No Passengers Injured.
The strangest part of the wreck is the fact that none of the passengers on the train were either killed or injured. This fact is attributed by railway men to the fact that the heavy sleepers were directly behind the baggage and mail cars. They are so solidly built that they were able to withstand the shock of the wreck and the safety of the passengers is probably due to this fact. The strangest part of the wreck is the fact that none of the passengers on the train were either killed or injured. This fact is attributed by railway men to the fact that the heavy sleepers were directly behind the baggage and mail cars. They are so solidly built that they were able to withstand the shock of the wreck and the safety of the passengers is probably due to this fact. When the first wrecking train arrived on the scene it was enabled to pull the five rear coaches of the train away from the scene and bring them back to this city. They were transferred to the C. G. W. and the passengers sent eastward over this line. |
| Rhodes (Iowa) |
15.12.1901 |
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Wednesday afternoon at 1:23 o'clock, two miles west of Rhodes, occurred the most disastrous wreck ever known on this division of the Milwaukee. The dead so far are eleven and thirty-five are injured, many of them severely.
No. 92, the way freight going east was four miles east of Collins. When rounding a sharp curve in a deep cut, it crashed into a work train coming west at full speed. No 92 was in charge of Conductor L. C. Newell, brakemen John Searls, Dan Reel and Joe Slater, engineer S. D. Marckres and Fireman Kyarsgaard. On the work train were Conductor W. S. Craig, brakeman Gus O'Day, engineer Fred Braman and fireman Will Thorp. After the crash the scene was one that cannot be described. Strong men cried and others fainted away at the sight of the spectacle.
Fireman Kyarsgaard saw the work train and yelled at Marckres to jump, himself leaping from the engine as he spoke. Marckres being on the outside could not see how close they were and he was caught in the crash that followed, being instantly killed. He was found down next to the boiler head with a bad gash in his head and was badly scalded. His lever had been thrown to center. The fireman escaped with some bad bruises and he worked hard to help the unfortunates. Engineer Braman evidently jumped and was killed in the fall or by the wreckage striking him. His fireman, Will Thorpe, jumped as they struck, but his leg was caught and when found he was sitting on the bank with his leg hanging at the thigh by a strip of flesh. |
| Iowa City (USA) |
20.08.1903 |
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JOHN BRICKLE, of Iowa City, (formerly of Gettysburg,) was, on Thursday morning, run over by a railroad car, loaded with bridge lumber, and so seriously injured as to survive but about an hour.
The fractures were mostly confined to the legs, the thigh and hip, but some of his ribs are supposed to have been broken also, and a shoulder thrown out of place. They, as well as the flesh wounds and internal injuries, were of the most distressing character, rendering it evident from the first that the sufferer was not to suffer long. He bore his agony with heroic fortitude, excepting at the period of its apparent culmination, when he fairly shrieked with anguish, and then sank rapidly away, sensible almost to the last moment.
The accident was one which probably cannot be imputed to the fault of any party. MR. BRICKLE was crossing the track, when the car which he had been engaged in loading, was struck by a backing train, thrown forcibly and suddenly against him; and the fatal work was done. |
| Adel (Iowa) |
12.12.1903 |
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Three trainmen were killed and four injured in a freight collision today on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road near Adel, Iowa. A double header west bound and an extra freight east bound came together in a deep cut on a sharp curve. Three engines and fourteen cars were entirely demolished.
The dead:
FRANK FINNICUM, engineer, Des Moines.
OSCAR DYRE, fireman, Des Moines. |
| Albia (Iowa) |
16.12.1903 |
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Five persons were killed and 10 injured in a wreck on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad three miles west of Albia, Ia. The westbound passenger train was in some manner derailed while running onto the Cedar creek bridge and five cars were wrecked by collision with the steel girders of the bridge. The wreckage immediately took fire and several of the victims were badly burned.
The dead: MRS. W. E. MITCHEN, Albia, Ia., burned to death; MILDREN MITCHEN, 2 years old, burned to death; THOMAS BEATTY, killed in wreck of smoking car; ______ FRANKLIN, address unknown; Unknown Man.
None of the injured will die.
Just what caused the accident is a mystery. As soon as the engineer noticed there was something wrong he applied the air brakes, but was unable to stop the train. Five cars were completely burned and the remaining coaches badly damaged.
Three trainmen were killed and five injured in a freight collision on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad near Adiel, [sic] Ia. The dead are FRANK FINNICUTT, engineer; WALTER WARD, engineer, and OSCAR DYER, fireman. Three engines and 14 cars were entirely demolished. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1904 |
Boyer Machine Co. |
Verlegung nach Detroit |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1904 |
Burger, Reinhold |
Reinhold Burger bekommt für die Erfindung der Thermosflasche auf der Weltausstellung St. Louis eine Goldmedaille |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1904 |
Reinhold Burger |
Reinhold Burger bekommt für die Erfindung der Thermosflasche auf der Weltausstellung St. Louis eine Goldmedaille |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1904 |
Weltausstellung St. Louis 1904 |
A. Grenander entwirft für die Weltausstellung ein Wohnzimmer-Ensemble im Jugendstil |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1904 |
Weltausstellung St. Louis 1904 |
Die preußische Schnellzuglokomotive S 9 (Bauart Wittfeld, Achsfolge 2'B2', Altona 561) erringt auf der Weltausstellung in St. Louis eine Silbermedaille |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1904 |
Weltausstellung St. Louis 1904 |
Friedr. Dick erhält eine Medaille [auf der Weltausstellung?] in St. Louis |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1904 |
Weltausstellung St. Louis 1904 |
Johann Schütte wird für den "Schütte-Kessel" (eine Kombination von Rauchrohr- und Wasserrohrkessel) auf der Weltausstellung in St. Louis mit der goldenen Medaille augezeichnet. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1904 |
Weltausstellung St. Louis 1904 |
Reinhold Burger aus Berlin bekommt für die Erfindung der Thermosflasche auf der Weltausstellung St. Louis eine Goldmedaille |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1904 |
Weltausstellung St. Louis 1904 |
Reise von Alfred Blum zur Weltausstellung in St. Louis |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
27.01.1904 |
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Over a score of people were badly injured in a street car collision early this morning at Broadway and Merimac street, some of whom may not survive. Dozens of others who packed the cars were more of less injured.
List of the Injured.
WILLIAM MILLER, aged 31; internal and external injuries; will probably die.
J. H. HOBELMAN, 29; internal injuries, body crushed; may die.
JOHN S. BARRINGTON, 48; crushed and internally injured; will probably die.
WALTER SIEBENTRITT, 54; cut, bruised and internally injured; will probably die.
FRED ALTER, 40; face cut and internally injured; may die.
FRANK GILL, 56; bruised and cut.
JOSEPH ZERNEY, 42; internal injuries; may die.
ARTHUR HOPPE, 60; face cut.
THOMAS M'GOVERN, 18; bruised.
GEORGE DECKER; may lose both feet.
GEORGE BAKER, 15; ankle broken.
CHARLES JURRGIN, motorman; crushed and terribly injured; will die.
IDA KNAUS, 17; telephone operator; head and face cut.
JULIA DOERNER; shoulder and face cut.
LILLIAM DOERNER; face and back bruised.
LIZZIE CLIPTON; lips cut and arms bruised.
Rear End Collision.
One Broadway car was running slowly northward down the grade. A second, running at full speed, approached from the rear but, on account of the dense fog the motorman did not see the car ahead and crashed into it with terrific force. Men who crowded the rear platform were thrown in the air, smashed up against the sides of the car and thrown to the side and under the wheels. There was a wild stampede to get out of the cars, in which many were thrown down and trampled upon. |
| Dardenne (USA) |
28.01.1904 |
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Four men were killed and seven injured in a rear-end collision between the Denver express and the Hannibal accommodation on the Burlington at Dardene Creek tank, 37 miles from St. Louis at 7:40 Monday night, while the blinding snowstorm was at its height.
The dead:
ELMER ENGLISH of Macon.
WM. CONOVER of Denver, Col.
BEN BENNETT, negro porter.
JOHN E. NUN, engineer of accommodation passenger, supposed to be beneath ice in the river.
ELMER ENGLISH, above mentioned, is secretary of the Macon Loan and Savings association and one of the most successful and highly esteemed of Maconâ??s business men.
Among the injured was Dr. E. B. Clements of Macon a brother-in-law of Jesse H. Barclay of this city. He sustained two broken ribs. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
02.02.1904 |
Kinloch Telephone Company |
Vorschlag zum Bau einer neuen Zentralvermittlung an der 10th und Locust Streets, ein sechsstöckiges Gebäude, geplant von den bekannten Industriearchitekten Widmann, Walsh und Boisselier. |
| Dyersville (Iowa) |
25.02.1904 |
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The coroner's jury inquiring into the cause of the deaths of Thomas, Rhyno, Griswold and Cavanaugh, killed in a collision of stock trains at Dyersville, February 25, returned a verdict holding the Chicago Great Western and Conductor Mahoney responsible, and charges both with gross negligence. The wreck was caused by a second section of the stock train crashing into the first section, standing at Dyersville. The evidence showed there were no signals placed, and the speed of the second section was such as to make a collision inevitable. |
| Sikeston (USA) |
25.02.1904 |
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A freight wreck, caused by the engine jumping the track and exploding its boiler, occurred on the Cairo branch of the Iron Mountain near Sikeston, Mo., resulting in the death of four trainmen. The dead:
Will Hack, engineer, Poplar Bluff; Fireman Haas, Poplar Bluff; Frank Andrews, brakeman, Poplar Bluff; J. Connor, brakeman, Bertrans.
The wreck occurred just one mile west of Sikeston on a level piece of road while the train was running at passenger speed. //////
An Iron Mountain freight train was wrecked near Sikeston, Mo., this evening. A broken rail caused the wreck. An engine and ten cars were destroyed. |
| Dyersville (Iowa) |
01.03.1904 |
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At 1:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon a rear-end collision between a through freight and a way freight train on the Illinois Central occurred in the station yards of Dyersville. The locomotive of the through freight telescoped the caboose of the way freight, throwing tons of material into the depot, which was almost totally demolished. The caboose was well filled with men.
NICHOLAS CORRIGAN of Cedar Falls, injured internally and badly scalded, died of injuries.
The injured are: THOMAS MARTIN of Earlville, and Engineer H. HAYDEN of Waterloo.
Traffic was seriously delayed for hours. The damage amounts to several thousand dollars. |
| Warrensburg (Missouri) |
10.10.1904 |
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The second section of the Missouri Pacific passenger train Number 3 from Wichita to St. Louis carrying World's Fair excursionists, and a west bound freight collided just east of Warrensburg, Missouri, eighty miles southeast of Kansas City early today.
The forward coach of the passenger train was telescoped and the remainder of both trains damaged. Twenty persons were killed outright and many more injured, some, it is believed, fatally. According to the local Missouri Pacific office, the engineer of the freight train was to blame, having forgotten his orders. He had been ordered to wait at a switch just south of Warrensburg, but he neglected to do so. They met on a sharp curve while running at good speed. The passenger coaches were crowded.
It was some time before the dead and injured could be extricated from the debris as the wreck occurred in a narrow cut during the dark of the early hours of the morning. Relief trains were hurried to the scene and everything possible done for the injured.
A telephone message to the Associated Press stated at the time the dead numbered twenty-three, seventeen of whom had been killed instantly and the injured numbered close to thirty, many are in a dying condition. |
| Kansas City (MO) |
21.11.1904 |
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While on her way to attend mass at the Holy Rosary church, Missouri avenue and Campbell streets, about 8 o'clock this morning, Mrs. Katherine BURKE, 76 years old, who lived with her son, Joseph BURKE, a farmer about twelve miles south of Kansas City, Kas., was struck by an east bound Electric park car at Fifth and Campbell streets. She received injuries which resulted in her death three hours later.
Mrs. Burke's right leg was broken in three places, her left leg broken twice and she received bruises about the body and head.
The car which struck Mrs. Burke was equipped with an old style fender. She was removed in the police ambulance to St. Joseph's hospital, where she died.
Mrs. Burke came here from her home in the country to visit the family of Thomas KEANE at 412 Campbell street. There was a heavy fog of mist and smoke in the north part of the city this morning and it screened the street car from Mrs. Burke's view. She was crossing the tracks when the car came suddenly out of the fog. It struck her before she realized her danger. Spectators said that the wheels of the car did not strike the woman. Her body passed under the fender and the motorman stopped the car. She was unconscious when taken from beneath the car, but regained consciousness before reaching the hospital. She realized that she was mortally injured and prayed while a surgeon was caring for her. |
| Hastings (Minnesota) |
1905 |
Star Works Manufacturing Co. |
Harris K. Stroud wandelt die Firma in "Stroud Humphrey Manufacturing Company" um |
| Hastings (Minnesota) |
1905 |
Stroud-Humphrey Company |
Harris K. Stroud wandelt die "Star Works Manufacturing Co." in die jetzige Firma um |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1905 |
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. |
Reynolds baut eine 5000-PS-Dampfmaschineneinheit mit Bullock-Generator für die Dekorationsbeleuchtung auf der Weltausstellung St. Louis |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1905 |
Boyer Machine Co. |
Umfirmierung in "Burroughs Adding Machine Co." |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1905 |
Joseph. W. Moon |
Beginn des Automobilbaues |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
1905 |
American Hoist & Derrick Company |
Das Warenhaus von Mitsui & Company in Yokohama wird mit amerikanischen Derrick-Kranen gebaut. |
| Wichita (Kansas) |
1905 |
Cudahy Packing Company |
Das Reinigungsmittel "Old Dutch Cleanser" kommt auf den Markt |
| Kansas City (MO) |
31.08.1905 |
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Eight members of the Louisville base ball club were injured in a collision today between a trolley car and a wagonette in which the club was being taken from the ball park to a hotel. The wagonette had reached Eighteenth and Olive streets, one block from the ball grounds when the accident happened. The trolley car, going at a good rate of speed struck the rear wheels of the wagonette squarely, turning it over and dragging it several yards. Pitcher KENNA, who was the most seriously injured, was caught in the fender of the car, while CLAY was under the car in front of the front trucks when the car was stopped.
The driver thought he could clear the track in front of the car, misjudging the speed with which the car approached.
KENNA was sent to a local hospital. CLAY and BRASHEAR were so badly injured that they will be taken to Louisville at once, as they will be unable to play ball for some time.
The club left for Toledo on a late train tonight, where it is scheduled to play tomorrow, but the train will not reach there in time for the game. Secretary WILBUR stated tonight that none of the injured players would be able to play for several days, and that ball players would have to be secured for the games to be played during the next week. |
| Kansas City (MO) |
30.10.1905 |
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Details of the wreck of the Santa Fe fast passenger train, five miles east of Kansas City, Monday morning, told in a brief exclusive account by the Constitution, place the accident in the column of grewsome disasters in the history of the state and makes it the most disastrous occurrence in the railway world since the wreck of the Missouri Pacific World's fair train a year ago.
Twelve people were crushed in the precipotus descent of the coaches into the ditch after the engine, going at the rate of 35 miles an hour struck a loose rail. Among the dead are JAMES SEYMOUR, cashier of the Ray County Savings Bank at Richmond and LEE D. MONTGOMERY, of either Linneus, MONTGOMERY or Carrollton. T. D. WHITMORE of Carrollton fell with his right leg in a stove and the limb was nearly burned off. ARCHIE CARTER of Richmond sustained a broken arm and crushed leg. Others were cut and mangled in horrible manners.
The wrecked train was known as the California Express and contained many immigrants, some of whom were killed or hurt.
Relief trains were sent out from Kansas City and Argentine and the injured were taken to Kansas City hospitals.
WHITMORE, who was a blacksmith at Carrollton, died at 7 o'clock Monday night, making the thirteenth victim. He leaves a widow and six children. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
bis Ende 1905 |
Kinloch Telephone Company |
Zusammenschluß der "Kinloch Telephone Company" mit der Kinloch Long Distance Company". Ferner werden die Konkurrenten "Suburban Telephone Company" und "Sedalia Telephone Company" erworben |
| Hastings (Minnesota) |
1906 |
Stroud-Humphrey Company |
Stroud baut in Hastings einige Autos und erhält die erste Automobil-Lizenz für Minnesota |
| Kansas City (MO) |
1906 |
Wesley H. Bennington |
Verlegung der Produktion von Kansas-City nach Indiana |
| Ottawa (Kansas) |
1906 |
Canada Atlantic Railway |
Kauf der "Pembroke Southern Railway Company" |
| Ottumwa (Iowa) |
1906 |
American Mining Tool Co. |
Gründung |
| Topeka (Kansas) |
1906 |
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad |
Baldwin baut 57 "Prairie"-Verbundlokomotiven (Achsfolge 1'C1') für die Bahn für den Güterzugverkehr. Sie haben innenliegende Hochdruckzylinder, die um 7° geneigt sind, damit das Triebwerk über der Achse des ersten Kuppelradsatzes liegt.. Ihr Dienstgewicht beträgt 248.000 pound und das Reibungsgewicht 174.000 pounds. - 31 ähnliche Lokomotiven werden 1907 gebaut. |
| Iowa City (USA) |
06.01.1906 |
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Shortly after ten o'clock this mourning what might have been a most serious accident happened near the stock yards located at the corner of Maiden Lane and Lafayette streets.
Henry Fuhrmeister of Newport township had just delivered a wagon load hogs at the stock yards and was driving out and just as his wagon was crossing B. C. R. & n. tracks was struck by a fast moving car which was being switched in position for loading.
The car struck the wagon amidships, as a sailor would say, and for about a minute it looked bad in that quarter. Mr. Fuhrmeister was thrown fully twenty feet high, some spectators saying that he went clear over the car, but luckily he was not hurt.
His team also uninjured but badly scared started to run taking with them the tongue and front wheels of the wagon. Crossing the Ralston creek bridge on Lafayette street they collided with a wagon coming east and injured that rig somewhat. The team was stopped near the glove factory. |
| Durbin (North Dakota) |
03.02.1906 |
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Local freight No. 590 ran into the rear end of extra No. 554 at Durbin during the storm Saturday evening, demolishing a caboose and setting it and three cars of wheat on fire. The engine of train No. 590 was badly damages, but nobody was hurt. The operator at the station kept the wires hot for a few moments which brought the wrecking crew to clear the track. Several trains were delayed on account of the wreck, but the wrecking crew, working from early morning soon cleared the tracks for the passage of trains. Various losses are reported among the train hands, one man complaining of the loss of a $350 diamond ring and another of that of a $50 overcoat.
When the light of the blazing cars shone through the storm, some of the inhabitants feared that the town was in flames, or that a neighboring farm house was burning. |
| Clinton (Iowa) |
06.02.1906 |
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Northwestern fast mail No. 15 crashed into a Milwaukee freight in Clinton, demolishing some freight cars and badly damaging the fast mail engine. The freight crossed the Northwestern track at right angles and the engineer of the mail train did not see it. The engine plowed through the cars and the crew escaped injury by a miracle. |
| Underwood (Minnesota) |
06.02.1906 |
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Ground to atoms was the awful fate of IVER HANSON, a section man, in a bad wreck on the Northern Pacific near Underwood, ten miles from here, this afternoon. Four cars and an engine were wrecked and others are badly damaged. An east bound mixed train ran into a string of box cars distributing cinders along the track. The engineer and fireman jumped and escaped injury. HANSON, however, fell under the cars and was dragged several feet and then the body was torn and literally ground up. |
| Frazee (USA) |
15.02.1906 |
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Freight train No. 162 on the Northern Pacific was wrecked in Frazee by the explosion of the boiler of the locomotive.
JOHN THOMPSON, brakeman, was thrown thirty yards. He suffered a broken leg and internal injuries and it is believed he will die. Engineer ARTHUR BREEN was blown through the side of the cab. He struck an embankment twenty-five yards away and is badly injured internally. He is not expected to survive. The head brakeman was also severely injured.
The engine and cab were demolished and the entire train of seven cars were piled up in a confused mass of debris. The injured men were taken to the hospital at Brainerd. |
| Grand Forks (North Dakota) |
16.02.1906 |
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Julius Walseth, a switch foreman in the Great Northern yards, was painfully injured yesterday morning at the Diamond mill. The crew was switching at the mill and in some manner Walseth was caught between a boxcar and the engine house, and terribly bruised. He was taken to a physician's office, where an examination failed to locate any broken bones, although the bruises were sufficiently serious to keep Walseth out of the service for several days. |
| Lisbon (North Dakota) |
16.02.1906 |
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N. H. RHODES, aged 70 years, who for six months had charge of the Northern Pacific pumping station at Lisbon, N.D., met with a terrible accident today, which resulted in his death a short time later. In some way, RHODES' jacket was caught in the main shaft of the engine room, and before the machinery could be stopped he had been terribly crushed, many bones being broken, and his death followed within a few minutes.
MR. RHODES had been a locomotive engineer for forty years, and had been employed by the Northern Pacific for half that period. Owing to his age, he was transferred to this city six months ago and placed in charge of the pumping station. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
24.09.1906 |
Kinloch Telephone Company |
Inbetriebnahme der neuen Zentralvermittlung im neuen Kinloch Building. Es hat eine Kapazität von 18.000 Leitungen. Es ist die größte Telefonzentrale der Welt. |
| Lowden (Iowa) |
22.10.1906 |
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Three persons were killed by a Chicago and Northwestern train near Lowden, Iowa, yesterday afternoon. The train struck a carriage containing Mrs. Charles Luett, her two children, and her brother-in-law, William Luett. A baby girl was the only one who escaped death.
Mrs Luett's mother and a son of Mrs. Luett probably owe their lives to the fact that they got out of the carriage to w???? the crossing fearing just [illegible] as happened. |
| Doyon (North Dakota) |
22.11.1906 |
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A. B. COMFORT of Grand Forks, engineer, and PETER MORRISSEY of Minot, deadhead fireman, were killed in a wreck of the Great Northern Oriental limited a mile east of Doyon.
Two mail clerks and three passengers were injured but not fatally. The accident was caused by the spreading of the track. Seventeen persons were injured and many were taken from the windows of the cars. Sixteen women and as many children were rescued in this way. The train was going about forty miles an hour and all cars went off the track, the engine, mail and baggage cars being demolished. |
| Enderlin (USA) |
23.12.1906 |
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Ten persons are known to be dead, six others are fatally injured and at least twenty-five others were hurt in the wreck Sunday of an eastbound accommodation train on the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie railroad at Enderlin, N. D.
The train from Moose Jaw Canada is due at Enderlin at 11:45 p. m., but Saturday night was about two hours late. The engineer was running at high speed in an endeavor to make up the lost time.
As he swung around a curve just before entering the yards at Enderlin, a switch engine was shifting a string of box cars to a side track. The cars did not clear the main track and the passenger engine collided head on with the switch engine.
Both engines were wrecked and the passenger cars were thrown in confusion down a small embankment at the side of the track. Several of the day coaches were turned bottom side up and the passengers pinned beneath the wreckage, which took fire from the car stoves.
The passenger train was heavily loaded with people going to spend the holidays. Most of the casualties occurred in the smoking car, and first day coach, both of which were splintered. |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
1907 |
Mayer Brothers, Inc. |
Louis Mayer erfindet einen V-8-Motor, einen der ersten im Lande. Er benutzt den Motor in einem Auto, das er über vier Jahre zusammenbaut. Die Mayers bauen Chassis und Maschine und schicken es nach Detroit zur Ergänzung um einen hölzernen Aufbau, der mit 20 Schichten schwarzer Farbe versehen wird. Das Auto läuft ausgezeichnet und ist sogar in der Lage, den Hügel von der Hauptstraße in Mankato (später: Agency Hill) ohne Schwierigkeiten hochzufahren. |
| Ottawa (Kansas) |
1907 |
Canada Atlantic Railway |
Kauf der "Ottawa Terminal Railway Company" |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1907 |
Moon-Hopkins Billing Machine Co. |
Erteilung des Rechenmaschinen-Patents in Deutschland |
| Des Moines (Iowa) |
04.02.1907 |
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Seven miners were killed to-night, and a dozen were injured in the wreck of a coal train on the Chicago and Northwestern Railway near Des Moines. The dead:
PETER PILSTRUM.
PETER EXNER.
OLAF ANDERSON.
ALBERT OLSON.
CARL ANDERSON.
SAMUEL DREW.
ANDREW LUNDQUIST.
A car in the middle of the train left the track and ditched the cars behind it. The train carried about thirty miners, scattered in groups on different coal cars. Several passengers were in the caboose. The victims were all buried under wreckage and coal, which later caught fire, making the rescue work difficult.
The injured will recover. Among the hurt are BLANCHE ROSER and JEAN HORSBURG, school teachers. |
| Neosho (Missouri) |
08.03.1907 |
Alexander & Son Plow Works |
Verkauf an Charles Van Riper und seinen Schwiegersohn, John A. Rogers, in Joplin, Missouri. Konsolidierung am 8. März unter der Firma "Alexander Chilled Plow Works" (später: "Neosho Foundry and Plow Works") |
| Cass Lake (USA) |
15.03.1907 |
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An unknown Finlander was run over this morning by an engine on the Swan River road, and his body was mangled. The man was seen about the city last night, but his identity is unknown. He was walking along the track about one mile east of here when he was struck and killed. The body is at the undertaker's awaiting the action of the coroner. |
| Deer River (Minnesota) |
15.03.1907 |
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In a head on collision between two freight trains on the Minnesota & International railroad just beyond Deer River, two men, Frank McVeigh, engineer, and George Martin, conductor, both of this town, were instantly killed this morning.
The collision was between extra freight No. 8, and freight No. 5. No. 8 is said to have disregarded orders to stop at this point and ran by the station at 30 miles an hour. A few miles beyond Deer River it met freight No. 5. Both trains were going at high speed, and as they met just beyond a curve the train crews could not see the headlights and avert the accident.
The engines came together with terrific shock and No. 5 was smashed into junk iron. Engineer McVeigh was crushed to death in the cab, and Conductor Martin was hurled from the top of a freight car. His skull was fractured and he died shortly afterwards.
The train crew of No. 8 escaped injury by jumping just before the collision. Both engines were pulling about 20 box cars and many of these were broken and splintered.
The dispatcher at Deer River says that blame of the accident rests entirely upon the crew of No. 8 as they disregarded his signals to stop. The train crew assert that they saw no signals and they thought they had clear right of way. |
| Duluth (Minnesota) |
15.03.1907 |
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A miraculous escape from serious injury was experienced by B. Nyeberg, a laborer, in the night about 10:20 o'clock. While crossing Superior street in front of the Metropolitan theater, he was struck by a street car and sent sprawling 30 feet. A number of comrades thinking that he was seriously hurt rushed to his assistance. The car came to a stop and the motorman and the conductor got off to look Nyeberg over. The victim arose smiling from the frozen street, without a scratch, and after brushing off his clothes, walked away. |
| Duluth (Minnesota) |
15.03.1907 |
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While engaged in loading a hoisting engine onto a flat car at the Duluth Missabe & Northern ore dock in the afternoon, Robert Brotherton was struck by a heavy snatch block and his leg broken. After the engine had been loaded upon the car, the men put a line through the block and started to hoist other machinery. The rope broke, causing the block to fly back striking Mr. Brotherton, who stood between the block and the engine. He was taken to St. Mary's hospital, where the bone was set. |
| Davenport (Iowa) |
21.03.1907 |
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P. J. Kiley, of Boston, Mass., was run over by a train in Davenport (Iowa) today and killed. With his wife, he was returning to Boston from St. Elmo, Calif. As their train came to a stop here they alighted for a few moments. When the train started up Mrs. Kiley boarded the train safely but Kiley was struck by a projecting girder and thrown under the wheels. |
| Bartlett (North Dakota) |
14.04.1907 |
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The Great Northern Oriental limited fast coast train, which left St. Paul at 10 o'clock Sunday morning, was wrecked and totally burned at 1:20 o'clock this morning. Six persons are known to have met death, and it is not known how many bodies are still in the ruins. The accident occurred four miles from here, near the village of Bartlett within half a mile of where the same train was wrecked last fall. It is the worst wreck that ever occurred in North Dakota. The cars comprising the train were destroyed, with the exception of the standard sleeper and observation car. The train was running 35 miles an hour and the cause of the accident is not known. All the cars left the track.
Many thrilling escapes are reported and numerous acts of heroism are told by the survivors. The engine lies across the line dividing Nelson and Ramsey counties. The mail car passed the engine and burned in Ramsey county.
Mail Clerk JONES of Grand Forks was killed, but his body was taken from the car by Mail Clerk FODNESS, who was himself severely burned about the head.
The train carried many passengers. Every car, except the observation car, left the track, but, the sleeper was pulled on again before the flames reached it. The cars went over a ten-foot embankment and a few minutes after the accident a gas tank exploded and set fire to the wreck. The report of the explosion was heard here, a distance of four miles. |
| O'Fallon (Missouri) |
27.04.1907 |
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The boiler of a freight engine exploded near here today, wrecking the engine and caboose and killing Engineer Paul Lynch, Fireman Frany Appleby and Brakeman George Brown, all of Moberly, Mo., and injuring Conductor Dessert and an unknown brakeman. |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
14.05.1907 |
Mankato Electric Traction Co. |
Gründung (in West Virginia am 14. Mai eingetragen) durch eine Gruppe von Geschäftsleuten, welche die Vorzugsanktien kaufen. |
| Mount Pleasant (Iowa) |
Juli 1907 |
Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute |
Vertragsabschluß zum Bau eines Frauenkrankenhauses |
| Keystone (Iowa) |
19.08.1907 |
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Passenger Train No. 3 on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad was wrecked today at Keystone, 30 miles west of Cedar Rapids. Twenty persons were injured, several seriously. The wreck was caused by the train colliding with a hand car on a 20 foot embankment. The injured included C.T. McElwaine, express messenger, serious; F.C. Myers, postal clerk, serious; Baggage-man Doland, serious; F.W. Stockton, conductor, serious; David Reynolds, Marion, IA.; Frank Micheal, fireman; Carl Mershon, Owlwein, IA, possibly internally injured; Harry Steinberg, news agent; Harvey Wooley, Toronto, Mo.; Ira Robinson, St. James, Mo.; Adolph Johnson, Marion, foreman of a bridge gang. |
| Cedar Falls (Iowa) |
06.09.1907 |
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Rock Island passenger, north bound, due in Waterloo at 9:25, was wrecked in Norris Siding three miles north of Cedar Falls at 10:20 today, resulting in the death of twelve men and the injury of seven others. The trucks of locomotive No. 1001, of the passenger train left the track at a sharp curve just south of the siding, and the train crashed into a freight southbound that was standing on the siding. The mail car, the baggage car and the smoker were telescoped. All of the dead and seriously injured were in the smoker.
Farmers working near by heard the crash and hurried to the scene. The sight that greeted their gaze was one which they will never forget. The smoker was but a heap of debris, merely a pile of splintered timbers, broken glass and twisted metal.
True to the sense of his high duty in guarding the lives of his passengers, Engineer A. L. MASON of the passenger train applied the air before jumping. He was followed by his fireman, L. McMAHON. If these men had stuck to their engine they would have been crushed and mangled beyond identification, as the engine was completely wrecked and was half buried in the earth at the side of the freight. The train was going at a high rate of speed, being behind time, and the momentum of the train was terrific. The enginemen on the passenger train escaped with slight bruises. The enginemen of the freight also jumped and escaped when they saw the train was derailed. |
| Duluth (Minnesota) |
31.12.1907 |
Clyde Iron Works |
Patenterteilung (vmtl. für eine Dampfwinde) |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
01.01.1908 |
Mayer Brothers, Inc. |
Die Mayer Brothers liefern Federhammer mit der Fabr.-Nr. 1 an W. C. Mann in Ralston, Oklahoma. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1908 |
Universal Adding Machine Co. |
Das Fertigungsrecht für die "Universal"-Rechenmaschine geht an Burroughs über |
| Kearney (Missouri) |
07.03.1908 |
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Burlington passenger train No. 4, which left Kansas City at 7:30 this morning for Chicago, was derailed at Kearney, Mo., 25 miles north of Kansas City, and went over a fifteen-foot embankment. Twenty persons were injured, four seriously.
The seriously hurt:
J. D. GUYTON, Kansas City, horse buyer; head cut and otherwise injured.
R. E. WILSON, Kansas City, horse buyer; hip broken, hurt internally.
CHAPELL, young divinity student, studying at Liberty, Mo.
A traveling man from the north, name unknown, unconscious.
None of the other injured was seriously hurt, their injuries consisting mostly of cuts and bruises.
The wrecked train was made up of a baggage car, smoker, and two coaches. It is an accommodation train that stops at every station between Kansas City and Chicago and was not due in Chicago until Sunday morning. The accident was cause by spreading rails. The train was not running fast and this fact prevented more serious results. All but the smoker turned over and went half way down the embankment.
Physicians were sent to the scene from Brookfield and Kearney. The injured were cared for promptly and placed in the smoker until they could be taken to Kearney. There they were picked up by a later train and most of them continued on their journey. |
| Cedar Rapids (Iowa) |
30.03.1908 |
J. T. Carmody Foundry & Machine Co. |
John T. Carmody wird Bürgermeister von Cedar Rapids |
| Spanish Lake (USA) |
02.04.1908 |
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Five men wee injured, three seriously, in a rear-end collision today at Spanish Lake, 15 miles north of St. Louis, in St. Louis County, between a freight train and a Burlington passenger train, No. 24. The caboose of the freight train and the engine of the passenger train were wrecked. |
| Pettit (Minnesota) |
08.05.1908 |
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Pat Hurley, said to be a cook at Gilbert, lost both legs at 7:30 o'clock this morning at Pettit, a station between Eveleth and Sparta, by being run over by a Duluth & Iron Range freight train. He was taken to the More hospital at Eveleth, where his right leg was amputated near the hip and the left leg just above the ankle. His condition this evening was favorable. Hurley is 30 years of age and single. |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
08.05.1908 |
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Robert, the 2 year old son of Jacob Sleckenstein, 275 Cliff street, rolled down a 30-foot embankment near his home at 6 o'clock last evening and fell under a passing freight train on the St. Paul railroad tracks. Both his legs were severed at the knees and he died at the city hospital at 11:45. He was taken to the city hospital where he was attended by Coroner A. W. Miller.
The child had been playing near his home. While he was walking along the edge of the cliff he fell and before any of the children who were with him could catch him he rolled down the embankment.
While the little fellow was rolling train was going west and the boy fell under the wheels. Ten cars passed over his legs. By the time the rescuers reached the tracks and the train had been stopped the boy was lying unconscious near the tracks and the dismembered legs were cut into shreds by the wheels. |
| Partridge (Minnesota) |
23.05.1908 |
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The afternoon limited train on the Great Northern struck and almost instantly killed Nels Johnson, the seven-year-old boy of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson. He was thrown 30 feet and died in a few minutes. The boy is thought to have been watching an approaching freight train when the passenger came from the opposite direction. |
| Glyndon (Minnesota) |
05.06.1908 |
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Timothy Hopkins, a young man of Langdon, N. D., employed on the Northern Pacific construction work in Glyndon, was fatally injured today. In attempting to board a moving locomotive he was knocked down and run over. Both limbs were amputated at St. John's hospital in Fargo and he died at 11:30 tonight. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
07.06.1908 |
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One man was killed, three persons so badly injured they will die, and two score more were more or less seriously hurt late tonight, when a suburban streetcar bound for this city from Creve Coeur Lake jumped the track and pitched ten feet over an embankment. The car was running at a high rate of speed when it struck a sharp curve. The motorman, Francis McEndre, has been placed under arrest.
The dead:
HENRY KIRKWOOD, Mo.
The accident occurred two blocks west of the city limits at a curve, 200 feet south of Olive-street road. Hundreds of pleasure-seekers at Delmar Garden near by were quickly at the scene and carried people from under the wreckage. Night Chief of Police Gillespie ordered every ambulance at the disposal of the city sent to the carsheds at De Ballviere and Delmar avenues, where the injured were taken temporarily. Physicians from hospitals in the immediate vicinity rendered first aid to the injured. |
| Medina (North Dakota) |
21.06.1908 |
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GOLMAR Bros. circus lost twenty-four draft horses, a part of its train was destroyed and it was delayed twelve hours in reaching this city, by a head-on collision at Medina at daylight Sunday. A light engine running twenty-five miles an hour collided with the circus train going at thirty miles an hour. One man was injured.
The circus train reached here at 2 p.m. The loss was several thousand dollars. |
| Duluth (Minnesota) |
21.07.1908 |
Clyde Iron Works |
Patenterteilung (vmtl. für eine Dampfwinde) |
| Keokuk (Iowa) |
28.07.1908 |
Hulson, Arthur W. |
Hulson beantragt das US-Patent 998247 für einen beweglichen Rost mit um ihre Längsachse schwingenden Roststäben |
| Brandsville (USA) |
26.08.1908 |
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Northbound passenger train No. 206 on the St. Louis & San Francisco railway, known as the Southeastern Limited, was partially derailed this morning two miles north of Brandsville, Mo. JAMES S. O'NEILL, the fireman from Springfield, was killed; H. B. COLVIA, engineer of Springfield, was fatally scalded; a mail clerk was probably mortally hurt and several passengers were more or less seriously injured.
The engine and the mail and baggage cars turned over and were badly damaged.
A telephone message from the scene says the accident resulted from a defective track.
The dead and injured were transferred to another train and taken to Springfield. The train was due in Kansas City at 10 A. M. and carried a heavy list of passengers. |
| Carthage (Missouri) |
24.09.1908 |
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St. Louis and San Francisco passenger train No. 304, bound for St. Louis, was derailed a mile and one-half west of Carthage at 8:30 this morning at a curve close to Spring river.
The engine and baggage car went into the river and all other cars left the track and turned over. LEW BLOOD, engineer, and BARRY GERROUSE, fireman, were pinioned under the wrecked engine and instantly killed.
About twenty-five passengers were more or less seriously hurt. Some of them it is feared will die.
The train was a local passenger made up at Carl Junction, Mo., leaving there at 6:50 this morning, dut to arrive in St. Louis at 8:45 tonight. The train was coming into Carthage at a high rate of speed and ran off a sharp curve. |
| Gowrie (USA) |
30.10.1908 |
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Two people were killed and seven others injured, one fatally, in a wreck on the Newton & Northwestern near Gowrie, Ia. |
| Van Horne (USA) |
26.02.1909 |
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One man was killed and several were injured by the derailment of the west-bound overland limited train of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul at 2:25 this morning at VanHorn, Iowa.
The train was making up lost time and going at a speed of nearly 60 miles an hour when the locomotive left the track and turned a complete somersault, fetching up facing the east, a complete wreck. The baggage and mail cars were piled on top of each other and several passenger cars were resting on their sides. C. H. BROWN, the engineer, was crushed to death. The names and number of the injured are not yet known. The cause of the accident is believed to have been a broken flange.
Engineer Killed.
Chicago, Feb. 26 â?? At the general superintendentâ??s office of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, it was stated that the Overland limited train had been ditched near Van Horn, Iowa, and that the engineer, C. H. BROWN, had been killed. There were no other fatalities, the officials of the company asserted. The wreck occurred at 2:25 this morning. The cause has not yet been ascertained.
It was stated here that no passengers were hurt. |
| Spring Valley (Minn.) |
03.05.1909 |
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The first train to be run from Osage north to Rochester on the new time card of the Chicago Great Western met with an accident on its first trip Monday.
Everything was running smoothly until one and one-half miles south of Spring Valley when suddenly there came a grinding noise, a lurch and a pitch, and over went a refrigerator car which is at the head of this accomodation train. The "freezer" fell over on its side and in so doing dragged the baggage car with it. Part of the momentum was done away with by this time, however, and the baggage car merely turned crosswise on the rails.
Conductor McCOY and the Wells, Fargo express messenger were slightly injured. NATE FRIEND of Austin, was on the train but aside from a shaking up escaped without injury. |
| East Kansas City |
15.05.1909 |
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It is believed that none of the twelve persons injured will die as a result of the wreck of the Buffalo-Colorado limited passenger train, west bound, near Kansas City last night. The train, which was Wabash No. 9, one of the first through trains to be used in the combination Union Pacific-Wabash transcontinental service, recently inaugurated, crashed into a steel twin bridge, spanning what is known as the Rush river, a creek one mile north of Randolph. The bridge piers had been undermined by recent high waters and the fact that the train was proceeding at a slow speed was all that prevented a fearful disaster. The engine and the baggage and mail cars crashed into the bridge.
The engine was nearly clear of the trestle when the structure gave way. The engine went down landing on the zank [sic] of the stream. The mail car and the baggage car folded together and hung suspended over the river. The first passenger coach was thrown off the track and stopped, and this alone saved it and the cars following. With the first creaking of the structure, W. P. Carlisle, the engineer, and his fireman, Ira Iles, both of Moberly, Mo., jumped and escaped with severe bruises. In the first passenger coach eight passengers were injured more or less seriously, and the 100 others in the remainder of the train were shaken up.
The express manager and his assistant and the mail clerks, with the exception of W. G. Whitehead of St. Louis climbed from their car and escaped with light hurts. Whitehead was precipitated into the water but soon reached the bank. He was badly though not seriously hurt. |
| Odessa (Missouri) |
15.05.1909 |
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Two persons are expected to die and thirty-five others are more or less seriously injured as a result of a local Chicago & Alton passenger train No. 14 being derailed two miles east of Odessa, Mo., today. Only the engine remained on the track, the tender, combination baggage and passenger car and two passenger coaches being derailed. The coupling of the rear coach broke and it rolled down the embankment, turning completely over. It was in this car that the serious injuries occurred, and none of its occupants escaped unhurt.
Miss Jennie Donaldson and Myrtle McNeel, both of Odessa, are in critical condition and their recovery is despaired of. Many of the others are bruised and internally injured, but physicians say they have an even chance to live.
No explanation of the wreck has been found. It has been learned that the front wheels of the tender were the first to leave the rails and the following trucks were thrown off by them, but an examination of the track shows nothing to indicate why the tender was derailed. |
| Randolph (Missouri) |
15.05.1909 |
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It is believed that none of the twelve persons injured will die as a result of the wreck of the Buffalo-Colorado limited passenger train, west bound, near Kansas City last night. The train, which was Wabash No. 9, one of the first through trains to be used in the combination Union Pacific-Wabash transcontinental service, recently inaugurated, crashed into a steel twin bridge, spanning what is known as the Rush river, a creek one mile north of Randolph. The bridge piers had been undermined by recent high waters and the fact that the train was proceeding at a slow speed was all that prevented a fearful disaster. The engine and the baggage and mail cars crashed into the bridge.
The engine was nearly clear of the trestle when the structure gave way. The engine went down landing on the zank [sic] of the stream. The mail car and the baggage car folded together and hung suspended over the river. The first passenger coach was thrown off the track and stopped, and this alone saved it and the cars following. With the first creaking of the structure, W. P. Carlisle, the engineer, and his fireman, Ira Iles, both of Moberly, Mo., jumped and escaped with severe bruises. In the first passenger coach eight passengers were injured more or less seriously, and the 100 others in the remainder of the train were shaken up.
The express manager and his assistant and the mail clerks, with the exception of W. G. Whitehead of St. Louis climbed from their car and escaped with light hurts. Whitehead was precipitated into the water but soon reached the bank. He was badly though not seriously hurt. |
| Chillicothe (Missouri) |
16.05.1909 |
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Mike Durran, a fireman on engine No. 72, pulling an east bound Burlington freight, came near being killed in the local yards Sunday afternoon by being hit with an engine.
Durran, who was assisting the crew in switching, had jumped from his engine near the water crane east of the depot. When he started to make the jump his foot slipped in some manner and he did not clear the track and the pilot beam of the engine struck him. The man was thrown several feet in the air and fell in the right-of-way. He was picked up unconscious and placed on the depot platform and a physician summoned. After a careful examination it was discovered no bones were broken but he was badly bruised about the head and shoulders.
The injured man was later placed on a train and taken to his home in Brookfield. |
| Cedar Rapids (Iowa) |
20.05.1909 |
J. T. Carmody Foundry & Machine Co. |
John T. Carmody erleidet bei einem Raubüberfall in seinem Haus einen Bauchschuß. Er wird in ernstem Zustand in das St. Luke's Hospital gebracht |
| Westport (South Dakota) |
30.07.1909 |
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A wreck occurred on the north line of the Milwaukee Friday which injured Engineer O. E. Ladd, damaged the engine which he was running and estroyed a gasoline motor car. The accident occurred at Westport, and was caused by an open switch, said to be due to the carelessness of the section foreman. The latter had the gasoline motor car on the main line shortly before the passenger arrived from this city about 8 o'clock this morning. As train time approached he ran the car onto the side track on which the other cars were standing, but forgot to shut the switch behind him.
The passenger came down the steep grade and flashed out of the cut which is located on a curve at that place and though the power was cut off, and the reverse applied by Engineer Ladd the distance was too short and the train went through the switch. The engine struck the motor car and then pushed on to the next car. The motor car was damaged considerably, and exploded. The engine of the passenger was also smashed some and another was sent up to take the train to Edgeley. The fireman jumped when he saw the open switch but Engineer Ladd remained with the engine and did his best to stop it. When the engine struck he was thorwn from the cab and was badly shaken up, besides injuring his right leg considerably. No passengers were hurt and no damage done outside of that above stated. |
| Cambridge (Story, Iowa) |
31.07.1909 |
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The Overland Limited, the fast train on the Milwaukee, Westbound, was wrecked by a broken rail while running at 60 miles an hour near Cambridge at 2:30 this morning. J. J. Hanson, of Marion, mail clerk, and a passenger whose name could not be learned were seriously hurt. Twenty others were cut and bruised. Only a Pullman and observation car remained on the track. As soon as possible an extra train made up of these cars and the injured, after treatment by the physicians, continued their journey.
There was a wreck early Saturday morning, when a Milwaukee passenger train went into the ditch, telescoping two cars, and fatally injuring two mail clerks, besides shaking up all the passengers. The train was delayed five hours in reaching Sioux City, and it was evidently almost time for The Daily News (an afternoon paper) to go to press when the report of the disaster reached the city. |
| Cedar Rapids (Iowa) |
07.08.1909 |
J. T. Carmody Foundry & Machine Co. |
John T. Carmody stirbt an Typhus nach den erlittenen Schußverletzungen im St. Luke's Hospital |
| Cedar Rapids (Iowa) |
10.08.1909 |
J. T. Carmody Foundry & Machine Co. |
Trauerfeier für John T. Carmody. Der Gottesdienst findet in der Grace Church statt, gefolgt von einem Trauerzug zum Oak Hill Cemetery |
| Piedmont (Missouri) |
21.09.1909 |
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Only the hand of Providence prevented the entire train of No. 3, the Iron Mountain fast passenger to Texas, from going down a thirty-foot embankment this evening at Clearwater, three miles south of Piedmont, while rounding a curve.
In some unaccountable manner the tender of the engine jumped the track, but the baggage, mail, express, smoker, day coach and chair cars and diner remained on the rails. When the two rear sleepers left the track and were dragged for a distance of nearly three telegraph poles they broke loose from the diner, turning completely over in their terrible fall down the bank, yet no one was killed, but a number seriously injured. Word was sent back to Piedmont, and soon surgeons were on the ground giving attention to the suffering.
Before their arrival passengers in the coaches assisted the train crew to haul the injured from the wreck, and from the position some of them were found in, it is a miracle that no one was killed. |
| Kansas City (MO) |
24.09.1909 |
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Six lilves were lost, three persons were fatally hurt, and some fifty were injured in the wrecking of a Wabash passenger train that plunged into the Missouri River thirty miles east of Kansas City. The dead are:
CHARLES FLOWERS, engineer.
LOUIS BOND, fireman.
HARRY ECKERT, baggageman.
DANIEL KING, two-year-old son of E. T. KING, Eldon, Mo.
CHAS. ANTHONY, laborer.
JESSE OLDHAM, laborer.
Mortally hurt:
FRANK GARDNER, of Mount Vernon, Ohio.
MRS. S. S. HACKETT, Errick, Mo.
MISS IRENE DORTON, Errick, Mo.
Of the eight cars in the train five coaches with the locomotive were in the river, with the water covering all of them except one end of a sleeping car. A chair car and two Pullmans remained uninjured.
At the scene of the wreck the river makes a bend, and the railroad follows it. For days flood waters have undermined the roadbed, making it too weak to hold up the heavy trains. |
| Greene (Iowa) |
08.10.1909 |
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Running at a speed estimated at fifty miles per hour, Rock Island combination fast mail passenger train, No. 22. second section of train No. 20, from Minneapolis to Chicago, struck a switch just after passing the depot in Greene this morning about 1 o'clock and was derailed, two men dying from injuries received in the terrible wreck, and several others seriously injured.
The derailed train is due to arrive in Waterloo at 1:53, and was running a trifle late when the accident occurred. It is not known just what was the cause of the wreck, unless it was caused by some rod or shafting from the under part of the engine becoming loose and jerking a heavy timber from a street crossing which was picked up several hundred feet from where the wreck occurred, striking a switch which threw the derail, with the result that the engine, baggage, mail, express car and smoker went in the ditch. The observation car was thrown across the track with the front end piled up on top of the smoker at a considerable angle. The rear trucks underneath the wrecked cars slided ahead with the impact. The track was torn up for fully 200 feet, as the four forward cars were turned crosswise of the tracks and piled in a hopeless mass of ruins. The engine and tender were almost completely demolished. |
| Blakeley (Minnesota) |
19.12.1909 |
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West bound passenger train No. 3 on the Minnesota & Iowa division of the Chicago St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad, which left St. Paul, at 10 a. m. today, collided with a freight train at Blakely [sic], Minn., about noon. Fireman Joe Zinnelil and Mail Clerk. F. Torgerson, both of St. Paul, were killed. None of the passengers were injured seriously enough to need medical attention. |
| Cedar Rapids (Iowa) |
24.12.1909 |
J. T. Carmody Foundry & Machine Co. |
Der Mörder von John T. Carmody, der Berufsverbrecher Arthur Johnson, alias J. A. Harris aus Chillicothe, Mo., wird zum Tode verurteilt |
| Topeka (Kansas) |
1910/11 |
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad |
Baldwin baut für die Bahn sechs Doppellokomotiven der Achsfolge 1'C+C1' mit geteilten Kesseln. Der geteilte Kessel wird durch eine flexible Verbindung durch Ringe nach den Patenten von Vauclain verbunden |
| Union (Franklin, MO) |
10.02.1910 |
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Conductor JAMES D. REACH of St. Louis was killed and eleven persons injured when the Rock Island train No. 28 from Kansas City, due in St. Louis at 7:35 o'clock this morning, was derailed near Union, Mo., sixty miles west of St. Louis.
The tender jumped the track on a trestle just outside of Union. The engine pulled the tender across in safety, but the baggage, mail, smoking and chair cars went over into the ravine beneath. A relief train was sent out from here. One of the injured, the baggageman, is in a critical condition.
The trestle is seventy-five feet high and the cars which went to the bottom of the ravine were reduced to debris except the steel day coach. Twenty-seven passengers in the day coach were bruised and scratched.
Conductor REACH was crushed to death by a safe when the baggage car turned over in its drop. The four Pullman cars, one of which was partly pulled from the rails before the coupler attaching it to the day coach broke, remained on the bridge. |
| Chisholm (Minnesota) |
19.03.1910 |
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The funeral of Nich Nichovitch, who was killed at the Shenango mine crossing Saturday night, was held this morning [= 22.03.] at 10 o'clock from the undertaking parlors of J. L. Phillips.
The man was crossing the railroad tracks and stepped aside to get out of the way of some cars he saw approaching. He apparently saw other cars approaching and in an attempt to get out of their way stepped in front of a dirt car which passed over him, cutting off one leg and one arm. He bled to death before assistance reached him. The funeral was attended by the members of St. Joseph's society of which he was a member. |
| Green Mountain (Iowa) |
21.03.1910 |
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Forty-seven people were killed and scores injured in a wreck near Green Mountain, Iowa, Monday morning when a double-header passenger train on the Rock Island went into the ditch. Forty-four of the bodies have been identified. Three of the other bodies, all those of women and children, are yet to be identified. ...
Both engineers and one of the firemen escaped with their lives, but one of the firemen is missing, while John C. White, who was the lead engine piloting the train to Waterloo, was so severely scalded that he is not expected to live. White was at first supposed to be dead but later was found at a farm house, to which he had been taken by some of the passengers. ...
Railroad officials make no statement in regard to the cause of the wreck, but the state board of railroad commissioners will make a complete investigation. The train of eight coaches was being pulled by two engines, both running at high speed. This may be the cause of the wreck, for the tender of the first engine jumped the track, and stopped suddenly when it hit the embankment beside the cut. The second engine and train followed, and the Pullmans in the rear drove the light day coaches together like cardboard against the engines in front. All the people in the first car were killed, and nearly all the men and women in the second car were killed or wounded. There was no time to jump - it all happened in an instant. No one was killed in the Pullmans. |
| Shellsburg (USA) |
15.12.1901 |
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Through somebody's carelessness, a switch was left open at Shellsburg in the morning. As a result, a southbound train went into the ditch, and one brakeman was killed and a number of persons hurt.
This wreck so blockaded the track that the northbound trains, the combined 19 and 21, were sent around by way of Marshalltown. A few miles out of that city, the train piled up in a wreck, and half a hundred lives were snuffed out.
Thus two disastrous and costly wrecks were the direct result of the open switch at Shellsburg. |
| Nashwauk (USA) |
25.03.1910 |
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While two cars of coal were being pushed around the Crosby mine for Jones Bros. Contracting company by the Great Northern Railway company's engine, both cars left the track and went into the ditch. Considerable track was torn up and both the cars damaged but no one was hurt. The wrecking crew from Kelly Lake was brought out and after two days work the cars were placed on the rails and the track repaired, the wrecking crew returning to Kelly Lake Thursday night. |
| Garrison (Iowa) |
11.04.1910 |
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Westbound Rock Island freight No. 89 ran head on into an east bound passenger six miles west of Vinton, just outside of Garrison, at 8:18 Monday morning. Thirty-two people were injured, four very seriously and two will probably die as a result of their injuries. Nearly every passenger in the coach of the passenger train was more or less hurt.
Only One Coach In Train.
The passenger train consisted of a small engine and one day coach, which had taken the place of the motor car that runs between Vinton and Iowa Falls. The passenger was just leaving the yards at Garrison and while rounding a sharp curve met the freight coming into town. The trainmen had no time to stop the trains as both were running at least twenty-five miles an hour. The small engine of the passenger was reduced to a scrap heap and the coach was badly demolished. The large engine of the freight remained on the track and is not greatly damaged. Several freight cars immediately behind were demolished.
It is stated that the cause of the wreck was owing to the fact that the east bound passenger trainmen ignored or failed to see the signal bung out at Garrison and that the freight train had seven minutes time in which to clear for the passenger. |
| Dunreath (USA) |
24.06.1910 |
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North end passenger train No. 3, in charge of Conductor RICHARD CARTER and Engineer L. D. ROUTLEDGE, ran into a washout two miles west of Dunreath, Iowa, Friday evening at 8 o'clock.
The washout was caused by very heavy rains which have been general over that portion of Iowa. The track was completely undermined and then No. 3, pulled by engine 334, plowed over the ties into the ditch several people were bruised and battered but none were seriously injured.
It was not until about ten or fifteen minutes had passed that the most horrible part occurred. Train No. 95 in charge of Conductor MARVIN FRITCH and Engineer E. R. FOWLER -- which was following No. 3, ran into the already wrecked train. There was a very heavy rain falling and consequently the crew of No. 95 could not see the other train until too late to stop.
It was in this last catastrophe that W. G. BROWN, a passenger from Ottawa, Ill., who had been slightly bruised in the first wreck and who was back in the train looking for his _____ happened to the accident which led to his death this misfortune. He was caught between the engine of No. 95 and some fallen timbers and his left leg was literally crushed off at the ankle. |
| Duluth (Minnesota) |
19.07.1910 |
Clyde Iron Works |
Patenterteilung (vmtl. für eine Dampfwinde) |
| Holt (Clay, MO) |
16.09.1910 |
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One man was killed and 18 persons injured when two passenger trains met in a head-on collision on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy one mile north at 6:30 o'clock tonight.
The trains which collided were the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy No. 6, which left Kansas City at 5 o'clock, and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific No. 201, which left Chicago at 11:30 o'clock last night, the latter train headed in on the C. B. & Q. tracks at Cameron Junction on its way to Kansas City. A misunderstanding of orders by the C. B. & Q. crew is said to have been responsible for the wreck. The trains were to have passed at this station.
The weightof the engine of train No. 201 and the fact that it carried steel cars prevented any one on it being injured. None of the injured will die. All those who were hurt with the exception of members of the crew were in a smoking car on the C., B. & Q. train. This car was derailed and rolled down an embankment. All the remainder of the equipment of both trains remained on the track. The trains were not moving more than twenty miles an hour. After the C., B. & Q. train had passed here, Luther E. Wilhert, the agent, realized a wreck might take place. He called farmers along the line by telephone and pleaded with them to stop the train, but it was too late. Howard, who was killed, was thrown through a window of the smoker and crushed beneath the car. Relief trains were sent from Kansas City and Lathrop. |
| Waldo (Minnesota) |
11.11.1910 |
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John Hill, a Finlander, aged 40, was struck by a Duluth & Iron Range passenger train near Waldo station this morning at about 10:30 o'clock. The injured man intended to board the train at Waldo station, and was late in getting to the station. When he saw the train approaching, he ran down the track, waving his arms to attract the attention of the engineer, running between the rails all the time. The engineer slowed the train down and blew the whistle but Hill did not get out of the way and was struck by the engine while the train was going at the rate of 15 miles an hour. He was picked up and put on a train and taken to the Budd hospital. He was unconscious for a considerable time, but it is thought that his injuries will not prove fatal. |
| Kansas City (MO) |
27.12.1910 |
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Two persons were killed and more than 50 hurt, four seriously, in a street car collision on the Intercity viaduct between here and Kansas City, Kan., tonight.
The dead.
OMER A. DUKE, Kansas City, Kan.
JOHN HARDING, colored, Kansas City, Kan.
Both cars belonging on the Minnesota Avenue line, and were headed west Car 177, when near the east end of the bridge, at a point 30 feet above the ground, lost its trolley. Car 163, in charge of Motorman George Green, came along before the trolley had been replaced. Green did not see car 177 until his car was within three feet of it, and, before he could apply the brakes, the moving car had crashed into the ?dead? zone.
The collision caused every light in the moving car to go out. A wild scene followed. Four persons fell off the viaduct into the street below. Within the cars men and women fought to get out. Window panes were crashed, many being injured by broken glass.
Warning of the accident was first given by Charles Lewis, one of the men who fell off the viaduct. Although badly hurt, he rushed to a nearby railroad office to spread the alarm. A moment after telling a clerk of the wreck, Lewis collapsed. |
| Abilene (Kansas) |
1911 |
C. W. Parker |
C. W. Parker baut eine neue Fabrik in Leavenworth |
| Des Moines (Iowa) |
1911 |
Wood Brothers Thresher Co. |
Eintragung von "Wood Brothers Thresher Co." |
| Hopkins (Minnesota) |
1911 |
Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co. |
Die Dampfzugmaschine verliert in der Gunst fortschrittlicher Farmer, und die Firma entscheidet sich für die Herstellung von Traktoren mit Verbrennungsmotoren. Walter I. McVicker wird als Konstrukteur dafür angeworben. |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
1911 |
Mankato Electric Traction Co. |
Die Leitung wird nach Verhandlungen mit J. J. Cummings auf die McGuire, Cummings Manufacturing Co. in Chicago übertragen |
| Mount Pleasant (Iowa) |
1911 |
Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute |
Aneignung von zwei Häuschen für Tuberkulosepatienten |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1911 |
Moon-Hopkins Billing Machine Co. |
Umzug von der 19th and Pine Street zur 22nd and O'Fallon Street |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
1901/02 |
Northern Pacific Railroad, Como Shops |
Bau einer dritten Wagenwerkstätte. Die Kapazität der Anlage verdoppelt sich |
| Wichita (Kansas) |
1911 |
Cudahy Packing Company |
Der Unternehmenssitz von "Cudahy Packing Company" wird von Omaha nach Chicago verlegt |
| Hibbing (USA) |
06.01.1911 |
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A 7-year-old girl, whose name could not be learned, was saved from death this morning at the railroad crossing on Third avenue by the quick thought and courage of James Steele, the 12-year-old son of John Steele, janitor at the Hibbing public library.
The little girl was riding on a sled, which she had attached to the delivery vehicle of R. Weeding & Co., unknown to the driver. It came down Third avenue at a smart pace, and barely made the railroad crossing as a train came by.
The little girl was looking away from the tracks and did not notice the approaching engine.
Steele leaped to the sled, snatched the girl from it and threw her to one side, springing away himself just in time to escape the engine as it went over the crossing.
The sled was smashed to pieces. |
| Duluth (Minnesota) |
28.03.1911 |
Clyde Iron Works |
Patenterteilung (vmtl. für eine Dampfwinde) |
| Keokuk (Iowa) |
18.07.1911 |
Hulson, Arthur W. |
Erteilung des US-Patents 998.247 an Hulson für einen beweglichen Rost mit um ihre Längsachse schwingenden Roststäben |
| Ainsworth (Iowa) |
15.09.1911 |
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The Rock Island "Golden State Limited," No. 3, west bound, was derailed just east of the station at Ainsworth, Ia., at 3 o'clock this morning. Three mail clerks were injured when the mail car was derailed and overturned. The engine left the track, but remained upright and the engineer and fireman escaped injury. A steel coach and the dining car were also derailed, but aside from being shaken up the passengers were uninjured. Those hurt were:
J. DUNHAM, Rock Island, left leg bruised.
E. S. JOBE, Kansas City, slightly injured.
W. B. BIXBY, Davenport, arm cut, knees bruised and ear cut.
The "Golden State Limited" was traveling between 35 and 40 miles an hour when the accident occurred. The train came to a sudden stop and railroad authorities consider it miraculous that more were not injured. Rock Island trains were detroured over the Milwaukee road until 10:30 this morning when the wreck had been sufficiently cleared to let trains pass on a side track. |
| Kansas City (MO) |
18.12.1911 |
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One man was killed and two others injured in a wreck on the Kansas City and Western Trolley line at Johnson's Switch, near this city. Disregard of others to run slowly was the cause of the accident, and two trolley cars crashed together, head on.
The dead: FRANK LOWE, motorman, of Leavenworth. Train Dispatcher Granville was injured, probably fatally, and two other were hurt. |
| Odessa (Minnesota) |
18.12.1911 |
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Ten persons were killed in a wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul railroad and ten of more were seriously hut when the second section of train No. 18, the Columbian from Seattle, ran into the first section, which had been stopped on signal.
The train which was wrecked consists of steel cars exclusively. It has no regular stop at Odessa and was due to pass that point at 3.45 a.m It was due in Chicago at 10.15 p.m. The Columbian was running in two sections because of heavy traffic.
The accident occurred a short distance from the signal tower at Odessa. The first section had been stopped by the towerman because of a freight in the block ahead of it. The second section is what is known as a â??silkâ? train, carrying merchandise.
Railway officials attribute the accident to the failure of the operator to set the signal against the second section. They also believe the brakeman of the first sections failed to run back and flag the second section.
Because of the darkness the engineer of the second section did not see the rear lights of the train in front of him in time to stop.
The rear car of the first section was telescoped and the car next to it was shattered. The dead were occupants of the last car, as were most of the injured persons. |
| Iowa City (USA) |
21.12.1911 |
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MRS. RACHEL SPRINGMIRE, aged 65 years was instantly killed in the afternoon at 3:30 o'clock when a [illegible] Dubuque street car struck the [illegible] wagon in which she and her son were driving at the intersection of Bloomington street. The [illegible] of the car against the wagon and the plunge given by the frightened horses threw both her and her son to the pavement and [illegible] below. Mrs. Springmireâ??s head struck the sharp brick and death came practically instantaneously. Her son, though unconscious was able to walk to the university hospital but at a late hour last night he had not regained consciousness and it was feared for a time that he had a blood clot upon his brain.
This afternoon, however, a report from the hospital states that he will recover, although as yet he knows nothing of the accident. |
| Finley (North Dakota) |
29.12.1911 |
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Six persons were killed and more than a dozen injured when the Great Northern's flier, Oregonian, which left here at 10:45 o'clock on Friday night for Seattle, struck a broken rail near Finley, N. D., while running fifty miles an hour, at 9:25 o'clock this morning. The dining and tourist cars and two day coaches turned over, all but one day coach rolling down a twenty-foot embankment. The fatalities occurred in the dining car, and the bodies were burned to a crisp. Of the injured, two were seriously hurt, it is said, but none will die. All live in the West, except James Riley of New York, who was bruised. The thermometer registered 12 degrees below zero, and, with a twelve-mile wind blowing, the injured passengers and trainmen suffered considerably before they could be aided. The wreck was caused by spreading rails, one of which broke. The engine and baggage car passed safely over the broken place, but the next four cars slid down the embankment, landing on their sides. The dining car, the tourist car and the first and second day coaches turned over. The dining car, tourist car and the first-class day coach rolled down a 20-foot embankment. The tourist and dining cars caught fire and were burned.
Efforts were made to put out the flames with fire extinguishers, snow and wet blankets, but without avail.
The sleeper left the track, but stood upright. The fatalities all were in the dining car. Physicians were rushed from Sharon and Finley and the injured were hurried to this place and to Finley. Wrecking crews were ordered from Devils Lake and Breckenridge, and it was thought the road would be clear tonight. |
| Iowa City (USA) |
1912 |
The O. S. Kelly Manufacturing Co. |
Schließung. Das Gebäude wird von der "Iowa City Canning Company" genutzt. |
| Maramec (USA) |
1912 |
Maramec Iron Works |
Tod von William James |
| Minneapolis (Minnesota) |
1912 |
Honeywell International Inc. |
Umbenennung der "Electric Heat Regulator Company" in "The Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company" |
| Stillwater (Minn.) |
1912 |
Northwest Thresher Company |
Übernahme durch "Advance-Rumely Co." |
| Dunkerton (USA) |
14.02.1912 |
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ANDREW BENNETT of Bryant, S. D., was fatally injured and thirty-one other passengers more or less seriously hurt when southbound Chicago Great Western passenger train No. 1 was derailed three miles north of Dunkerton at 2:45 o'clock this morning. The accident occurred on a slight curve about midway between Dunkerton and Fairbank. The train was running but a few minutes late and at the normal speed of forty miles an hour.
The train consisted of a locomotive, baggage and mail cars, three chair cars, and the steel Pullman sleeper "Roselle." The foremost chair car, while rounding the curve, lurched violently from the rails followed by the two remaining chair cars and the sleeper. The chair cars rain on the frozen ground a short distance, turning over on one side thirty feet from the track. The Pullman although derailed, remained upright.
Within the wrecked cars the scene was one of the wildest confusion. Passengers were tossed about and the series of crashes was most terrifying. Nearly all the windows were broken and many cut and slashed by the jagged ends of glass that rained down from the upturned side of the coach.
When the train left the track the lighting system was interrupted and the wreck victims had a difficult time trying to crawl out of the battered cars. The broken seats and glass littered interior made their attempts to move about in the blackness quite hazardous and some of the slightly injured passengers were nearly half an hour making their way out of the wrecked train. |
| Iowa Falls (USA) |
22.04.1912 |
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Two men were killed and another probably fatally injured when the second section of an Illinois Central stock train crashed into the rear end of the first section here late Sunday afternoon. The dead:
FRED CARSON, Oto, Iowa.
FRED BLISS, Washea, Iowa.
NELS JUERGENSON of Anthen, Iowa, suffered a broken leg and was internally injured.
The three victims were riding in the way car of the first section of the train with eleven other stockmen. The men saw the other train approach and the majority escaped by jumping.
The engine crew also escaped by jumping.
More that a dozen stock cars were demolished and 300 hogs were killed. |
| Mount Pleasant (Iowa) |
Juni 1912 |
Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute |
Besuche bei Krankenhäusern in anderen Staaten, um Ideen für die Behandlung von Tuberkulosepatienten zu bekommen. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
24.09.1912 |
Moon-Hopkins Billing Machine Co. |
Erteilung des Rechenmaschinen-Patents in Amerika |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
28.10.1912 |
---- |
Charles Kemp, a street car conductor, was killed and 15 passengers injured tonight at Fourth and Division streets when a Burlington engine struck the car in the center. It turned over on its side and Kemp, who was standing on the rear platform, was caught and his neck broken.
R. W. Henderson, a Morningside college student, was seriously injured, a deep cut being inflicted in his side. The others received minor wounds. |
| Osage (Iowa) |
07.11.1912 |
Smolik, Ray |
Geburt von Ray Smolik in Brainard, Nebraska |
| Mount Pleasant (Iowa) |
1913 |
Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute |
Besitzerweiterung für die Erweiterung des Krankenhauses für weibliche Tuberkulosekranke. |
| Nichols (Iowa) |
27.05.1913 |
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Only two persons were reported injured in a bad wreck of Rock Island passenger train No. 404 on the branch line between Muscatine and Montezuma. The accident occurred about a mile west of Nichols at about 10:30 this morning. The train was eastbound and was due in Muscatine at 11 a.m.
A report from Muscatine says that a defective rail caused the accident. The tender was derailed, and this jerked the baggage car and the coaches off the rails, the smoker and a chair car turning over and falling down the embankment. DR. F. V. MUNESCH and DR. F. F. CARL of Nichols were called to the scene of the accident.
At the headquarters of the Cedar Rapids division the officials were notified by a call from a farm house near the scene of the accident. A short time later a roadmaster sent a telegraphic report in which he said that two coaches had turned on their sides, but that no one was seriously injured.
As it is likely that a number of slight injuries may be reported later, the Rock Island officials summoned the company's physician and he left for the scene of the wreck with the special train which included the wrecking train. Roadmaster C. KELLY and fifteen section laborers were on the train and on arrival these promptly began the work of picking up the wreck.
Reported Injured.
CHARLES GIFFEE of Lone Tree, chest injured; probably internally.
J. FISHER of Iowa City, traveling man; bruised.
Eight other persons bruised. |
| Glidden (Iowa) |
12.06.1913 |
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Their automobile struck by a fast Northwestern passenger train three miles east of Glidden, LENA and REBECCA DUDLEY, daughters of ROBERT MATTHEW DUDLEY, a prominent hardware merchant of Nashville, Tenn., were killed Tuesday. MRS. DUDLEY and their negro chauffeur were seriously injured. |
| Maynard (Iowa) |
01.09.1913 |
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Train No. 444, ___bound on the Decorah branch of the Chicago & Rock Island, was derailed within two miles of Maynard _____ Monday. The entire train was derailed, rolling down a ten-foot embankment. Three were instantly killed and thirty-five others were more or less seriously injured. The cause of the accident was the spreading of the rails. As soon as the engine left the rails the coaches turned over and ____ down the embankment. A special train was made up at Oelwein and left the yard, bringing the injured to this _____ .
The train was running between twenty-five and thirty miles an hour, which is an unusual speed for trains on this branch. |
| Boonville (Missouri) |
26.12.1913 |
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One man was killed, another probably fatally injured and a third seriously hurt near Boonville this afternoon when a passenger train and a freight on the river division of the Missouri Pacific met in a head-on collision.
The dead man is Fireman Daniel Johnson of the passenger train, who was pinned under the engine and crushed. Engineer Edward Gorsuch, also of the passenger train, who was caught under a pile of coal thrown from the tender, is injured internally and it is believed he can not survive. Frank Nichols, a brakeman of the passenger train, is bruised and cut, but his injuries are not considered necessarily fatal.
The trains which are said to have been running at a high rate of speed, met without warning. According to a statement given out last night by afficials [sic] of the road, the crew of the freight train had orders to meet the passenger train at the H.K. siding. It is believed that the freight crew overlooked the order and ran by the siding until it met the passenger.
When Engineer J. Suttle of the freight train and his fireman, Dan Beaver, saw that a collision was inevitable, they jumped and escaped injury. The impact of the collision shook up those riding in the passenger train, but none was injured. The passengers were taken to their destinations on a special train that was hurried to the scene of the wreck. |
| Ottawa (Kansas) |
1914 |
Canada Atlantic Railway |
Verschmelzung mit der "Grand Trunk Railway Company" |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1914 |
Duco Adding Machine Co. |
Die Rechenmaschine ist fabrikationsfertig, kommt aber noch nicht auf den Markt |
| Tipton Ford (USA) |
05.08.1914 |
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Thirty-nine known to be dead, eight still missing and twenty-five dangerously injured was the revised toll of last night's wreck between a Kansas City Southern passenger train and a Missouri and North Arkansas railroad gasoline motor car at Tipton Ford, Mo., ten miles from Joplin (Missouri). With supposedly a clear track ahead, the passenger train plunged at full speed into the motor car which was coming from the opposite direction. Each is said to have been running thirty-five miles an hour. The motor car was telescoped and its gasoline reservoir exploded, throwing burning oil over the wreckage.
The heavy train crushed the motor car like paper and the crash was immediately followed by the fire which spread death and injury to almost every one on the motor.
As the fire spread, groans of the persons pinned under the wreckage could be heard. A number begged to be killed rather than face a slow death by fire. |
| Brush Creek (Missouri) |
15.09.1914 |
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The Frisco-Texas Limited leaving St. Louis at 8:30 o'clock, was wrecked at Brush Creek near Lebanon at 3:30 this morning. A cloudburst washed out a trestle and much of the track, and the engineer did not see the danger until it was too late. The engine, baggage car and chair cars plunged into the swollen stream. Unofficial reports state twenty people were drowned, including the fireman, STOCKSTILL. Sixty-eight persons were in the chair car which is now in the bottom of the creek. Many broke through the windows and swam ashore.
Relief trains have been rushed to the scene. The wires are all down and the number of dead has not been confirmed.
Some reports say forty were drowned.
The Frisco reports twenty-six bodies had been recovered at noon and were taken to Lebanon. Thirteen who were injured, are receiving treatment. All trains are running slowly on account of washouts. The Pullmans of the ill-fated train remained on the track with many imigrants in the chair car.
A new dispatch says between 35 and 46 were drowned.
Among dead:
HENRY WAGONER, St. Louis.
MRS. ELIZABETH ROSTELLER, Alliance, Ohio.
W. N. CHILDERS, Billings, Mo.
JOHN MYERS, Wife and Daughter, Thayer, Mo.
One Unidentified Man.
Fireman STOCKSTILL, Springfield, Mo.
Engineer O'BRIEN, was severely injured.
Das Unglück war auf die Unterspülung eines Teils der Eisenbahnstrecke infolge eines Hochwassers zurückzuführen; 27 Totoe |
| Lebanon (Missouri) |
15.09.1914 |
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Twenty-seven persons were drowned early Tuesday, when St. Louis and San Francisco west bound passenger train number five, St. Louis to Texas, ran into a cloud burst two miles west of Lebanon, Missouri, and two passenger cars toppled into a deep gully full of water.
Fifteen of the dead have been identified. Eighteen persons were injured, but none of them hurt seriously. Ninety-nine persons including the train crew were on the train and all have been accounted for.
The wreck occurred before day break, but as telegraph and telephone communications were interrupted by the heavy storm Monday night, nothing was known of the disaster at the Frisco general offices here until 8 o'clock Tuesday morning.
Happens At Curve.
The accident occurred at a curve which marked the edge of a ravine characteristic of the Ozark hill country. For several hours the train had been going carefully, as the engineer feared the heavy rains had weakened the track. Just as the engine hit the curve two miles from Lebanon, Engineer O'BRIEN saw a cloud burst seemingsly a wall of wather ahead of him. Though the train was going only fifteen miles an hour, he closed the throttle but before the train could be brought to a stop, the water was upon it. |
| Hutchinson (Minnesota) |
1915 |
Hutchinson Utilities Comm |
Die "Hutchinson Lighting & Manufacturing Company" verkauft ihre Anteile an die "Northwest Light & Power Co." |
| Afton (Union, Iowa) |
22.02.1915 |
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JAMES MAXWELL a locomotive engineer of Des Moines, and his fireman, H. L. HICKOK of the same place, were killed and Mail Clerk F. M. PERRY of Waterloo, Ia., seriously injured in a wreck on the Chicago Great Western Railroad, three miles north of Afton Junction today. Spreading rails are blamed. No passengers were seriously injured. The train was No. 1 from Des Moines to Kansas City. |
| Gilmore (Missouri) |
08.07.1915 |
---- |
Gilmore, Mo., was nearly wiped out, yet only one man was found dead there.
Between Gilmore and Wentsville, a Wabash passenger train, known as the Colorado limited, crossed the path of the storm and the first four coaches in the train were nearly plucked by the wind and laid to one side of the right of way.
Not a person was injured seriously in this accident. Those in the ditched cars ran back to the five passenger coaches left standing on the tracks; these were coupled to the tender and the train proceeded on its journey.
Two hundred men were at work today building a temporary bridge for the Wabash railroad near Gilmore, Mo., the railway bridge having been swept away in yesterday's storm. |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
1916 |
Little Giant Company |
Wegen finanzieller Probleme "Mayer Brothers" werden die Brüder Mayer von den Anteilseignern aufgefordert zurückzutreten. Die Gesellschaft ist nun unter der Kontrolle der Bank und wird umfirmiert. |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
1916 |
Mayer Brothers, Inc. |
Wegen finanzieller Probleme in der Gesellschaft werden die Brüder Mayer von den Anteilseignern aufgefordert zurückzutreten. Die Gesellschaft ist nun unter der Kontrolle der Bank und firmiert unter "Little Giant". |
| Packard (Iowa) |
02.06.1916 |
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At least five persons lost their lives, a score were injured and fifteen others are believed to be missing in the wreck of Rock Island train No. 19, northbound, which went through a bridge at Packard, Ia., early today. The wreck was due to the storm, which so crippled wire service that it was impossible to obtain accurate information. Twenty injured, six of whom are believed to be in a serious condition, were taken to Greene, Ia.
According to information collected from various sources, the greatest loss of life was in the day coach, which toppled on its side under ten feet of water.
The bodies of four Iowa women, all identified, had been recovered tonight from the wreck of a day coach attached to a Rock Island passenger train, which met disaster early today, while passing over a bridge whose abutments had been weakened by a near-cloudburst.
The wreck occurred seven miles east of Waterloo (Iowa). The day coach was the only one of five coaches to fall into the creek. About 45 persons were in the car and it was estimated tonight that the list of killed or drowned will total 10 or more.
Officials of the railroad estimate that at least four more bodies remain in the partly submerged car and efforts will be made to remove them tomorrow. The number of missing is uncertain.
Summe: 13 Tote, 2 Vermißte. |
| Le Mars (USA) |
05.07.1916 |
---- |
Entgleisung eines Reisezuges in Le Mars. Ein Wagen kippt zur Seite, einer stellt sich quer |
| Mount Pleasant (Iowa) |
1917 |
Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute |
Besitzerweiterung für ein Wäschereigebäude |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1917 |
L. M. Rumsey Manufacturing Co. |
Ende der Geschäftstätigkeit |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
April 1917 |
Villaume Box and Lumber Company |
Eugene Villaume wird Präsident beim Holzwerk "Osgood & Blodgett", dem Unternehmen, das "Villaum Bros." innerhalb von sechs Monaten nach der Gründung 1882 als Konkurrenz beseitigt haben wollte. |
| Stillwater (Minn.) |
01.08.1917 |
Northwest Thresher Company |
Die Fabrik von "Northwest Thresher" wird an George H. Atwood für $500.000 verkauft, und in den Gebäuden entsteht bald das neue Unternehmen "Twin City Forge and Foundry". |
| Soap Creek (Iowa) |
15.10.1917 |
Eberline Instrument Corporation |
Geburt von Howard Clayton Eberline in Soap Creek, Iowa |
| Des Moines (Iowa) |
11.1917 |
Wood Brothers Thresher Co. |
Das dreigeschossige Fabrikgebäude mit Flachdach wird durch Feuer zerstört. |
| Minot (North Dakota) |
21.12.1917 |
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County Superintendent W. D. Wendt is congratulating himself on a narrow escape from serious injury or possible death, because he missed both yesterday when his auto was struck by a Soo engine on the Central avenue crossing. He was on his way home and a box car on the track, together with the Soo freight depot, made it impossible to see the approaching train until he was within about 23 feet of the track. at this time the headlight flashed into view, and without being able to determine the speed of the approaching train, he killed his engine and threw on the brakes. One brake seems to have caught tighter than the other and the car made a half circle as it slid on the icy street and the rear end was just on the track, the car having reversed its course, when the engine of the train, which was moving at slow speed, struck the car, started the engine and allowed the driver to move from the track. The train stopped about forty feet from the scene of the accident. The auto was on the fireman's side of the cab and was not seen until the pilot was nearly against the car. The car received no injuries more serious than scratches. |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
1918 |
Swift & Co. |
Eintragung als "Midland Packing Company" |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
1918/19 |
Swift & Co. |
Das Architekurbüro Gardner and Lindberg aus Chicago errichtet das Gebäude für ca. $3.000.000 |
| New Prague (USA) |
26.03.1918 |
Leonard L. Rynda |
Geburt von L. L. Rynda in New Prague als Sohn von Joseph, Jr. und Anna (Cordes) Rynda. - Er besucht die Schule in Montgomery und arbeitet später als Farmer bei Montgomery. |
| Aplington (USA) |
29.05.1918 |
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An Illinois Central passenger train went through a bridge at Aplington in Butler county, early morning, killing six people and injuring many others. We are without details of the accident at the time of going to press other than above. It is supposed the wreck was caused by high waters in the stream weakening the bridge. The injured were taken to Waterloo. |
| Hastings (Minnesota) |
1919 |
Stroud-Humphrey Company |
Schließung |
| Minneapolis (Minnesota) |
bis 1919 |
Shoreham Yards Roundhouse |
Erweiterung von ursprünglich 18 auf 46 Lokomotivstände |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1919 |
Duco Adding Machine Co. |
Die Rechenmaschine kommt kriegsbedingt erst 1919 auf den Markt |
| Shoreham (Minneapolis) |
bis 1919 |
Shoreham Yards Roundhouse |
Erweiterung von ursprünglich 18 auf 46 Lokomotivstände |
| Washburn (Iowa) |
10.06.1919 |
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Traveling at a speed of about forty miles per hour, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific passenger train No. 62 was piled along the track near the Washburn station, about eight miles south of Waterloo, Tuesday morning at 2:35. The train was in charge of Conductor DAVIS and FRED TISDALE, engineer, the latter being buried beneath the wreckage of the engine cab. C. A. HORTON, baggageman, was also killed. A number of persons were injured but none seriously. All but one car left the rails.
The ill-fated train pulled thru Waterloo at 2:20 a.m. and was on time. When approaching the cattle guards at the first crossing from the Washburn station, two large horses and a pony got on the track. One horse and the pony were killed and thrown off to the side by the pilot while the other horse caught in front of the pilot in such a way as to roll along the track. The animal was dragged in this manner about forty rods to the switch when in some way it caught in the frog. This caused the locomotive to leave the main track for the side-track while the remainder of the train continued on the main rails.
The gigantic iron horse plowed its way along for a considerable distance before it was brought to a halt by being imbedded in the earth. The baggage car brought up alongside of the engine while the smoker lay half upset across the tracks directly behind the engine. It was in the smoker that the majority of the injured were seated. |
| Saint James (Missouri) |
28.12.1919 |
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Two persons were killed and 48 injured when a "Frisco" passenger train was derailed three miles east of St. James, Mo., Sunday. The train was en route from Oklahoma City, Okla., to St. Louis. The accident was caused when an axle of one of the coaches broke. The dead are J. O. Hopper of West Virginia and Mrs. William H. Prehn of St. Louis. |
| Council Bluffs (USA) |
1920 |
Griffin Wheel Foundry Company |
Griffin (American Steel Foundries) baut eine hoch-mechanisierte Eisenbahnräder-Fabrik in Council Bluffs, Iowa |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
Jan. 1920 |
Swift & Co. |
Beginn der Produktion |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
Mai 1920 |
Swift & Co. |
Ende der Produktion. Das Unternehmen wird unter Konkursverwaltung gestellt. |
| Livermore (Iowa) |
03.07.1920 |
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One of the worst railroad wrecks that has ever occurred in this state took place about four miles south of Livermore on the M. & St. L. road on Saturday last about noon. The passenger train that goes north to Minneapolis went through a bridge across a creek about a mile north of the Arnold station. The creek has quite a steep bank at this place and is in quite a ravine. A trestle works about 120 feet long spans this ravine. The engine of the passenger train went across the bridge all right but just as it got on the dirt track the bridge gave way and the four coaches of the train plunged into the creek below. It had been raining heavily and this made the bridge unsafe and washed out, it is claimed, some of the dirst and support of the piling. The engineer and firemen felt the engine going over the bank and so jumped and just escaped from being buried in the mud under the engine. There were quite a number of passengers on the train and these were piled up into the end of the car that went down first and covered with seats and chairs and everything else that came crushing in on them. Fortunately the engineer and fireman escaped and these two proceeded to get out the live and injured passengers. |
| North Liberty (Iowa) |
07.09.1920 |
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A cruel tragedy, one of the saddest of many months, in Johnson county, was enacted on the afternoon of Labor Day when two people were killed, three were injured and two escaped miraculously unscathed, following a collision between an Iowa City - Cedar Rapids Interurban Railway company car, bound for Cedar Rapids.
The accident occurred about two miles north of North Liberty, not far from the stockyards. The auto bore seven persons from Cedar Rapids and Fairfax, on pleasure-bent, enroute to a family picnic, at Iowa City park.
The automobile was struck in the rear portion, as THOMAN, perceiving the car too late to stop his machine, put on extra speed in a desperate effort to cross the tracks.
The machine was hurled about 15 feet, and every member of the party of seven was flung from the smashed machine, alighting several feet away from the auto, which fell in the roadway, while they were hurled almost to the edge of a continuous ditch. |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
1921 |
Mankato Electric Traction Co. |
Betriebseinnahmen: $44.133 |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
08.09.1921 |
Moon-Hopkins Billing Machine Co. |
Burroughs Adding Maschine erwirbt gültige Schreibmaschinen-Patente in einem Wert von ca. 750.000 $ |
| Mount Pleasant (Iowa) |
1922 |
Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute |
Fertigstellung der Wäscherei |
| Sulphur Springs (Missouri) |
05.08.1922 |
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Thirty-eight dead and 137 injured, 25 critically, was the toll taken by the rear-end collision of two Missouri Pacific trains at Sulphur Springs last night, a check-up revealed today. Most of the dead and injured were brought to St. Louis, where the latter crowded every hospital in the city.
Failure of the engineer of Train 4, the fast passenger steel train, which crashed into No. 32, the local standing on the track, to heed a block signal was the cause of the disaster, according to JOHN CANNON, Assistant General Manager of the road. The block signal, warning that the track was not clear ahead, was unnoticed by MATT ENGEL GLENN of St. Louis, engineer of the fast train, according to CANNON. GLENN, 57 years old and an engineer for thirty-five years without a black mark against his record, jumped from his cab just before the crash and was killed. EDWARD TINSLEY, also of St. Louis, firemen of No. 4, remained at his post and was seriously injured.
Officials of the road declared that the block signals were working properly and were set against No. 4. The inference, therefore, is that Engineer GLENN should have brought his train to a halt.
The local train was due in St. Louis at 6:35 P. M. It was after 7 o'clock when it stopped at Sulphur Springs to take on water. A few of those on the coach which had cleared the trestle when the train stopped, impatient at the depot, got out to take a brief turn up and down the tracks as a relief from the crowded cars. |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
1923 |
Little Giant Company |
L. J. Fazendin übernimmt die Unternehmensleitung |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1923 |
Kinloch Telephone Company |
Die "Kinloch Long Distance Telephone Company" (50.000 Telefone) wird durch die "Southwestern Bell Telephone Company" (120.000 Telefone; bis 1917 unter der Firma "Bell Telephone Company") erworben. |
| Kansas City (MO) |
1923 |
Kansas City Stock Yards |
Es werden 2.631.808 Stück Vieh angenommen (Maximalwert). Davon werden 1.194.527 Stück für die Verwendung in Kansas City gekauft |
| Hutchinson (Minnesota) |
1924 |
Hutchinson Utilities Comm |
Als Nachfolger der "Hutchinson Lighting & Manufacturing Company" übernimmt die "Northern States Power Company" die Stromversorgung von Hutchinson |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
1924 |
Swift & Co. |
Die Fabrik wird auf einer Auktion für $622.500 an "Swift & Co.", zu dieser Zeit der größte Fleischwarenhersteller weltweit, verkauft. Höchster Bieter ist der Architekt Horace Gardner in Chicago, der als Agent für "Swift & Co." fungiert. |
| Enterprise (Kansas) |
08.03.1924 |
J. B. Ehrsam & Sons Manufacturing Co. |
Tod von Jacob B. Ehrsam in Enterprise. Er wird auf dem Mount Hope Cemetery beigesetzt |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
17.03.1924 |
Swift & Co. |
Wiedereröffnung der Fabrik unter "Swift & Co." |
| Mount Pleasant (Iowa) |
30.06.1924 |
Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute |
Fertigstellung eines neuen Portals am Eingang des Hauptgebäudes |
| Des Moines (Iowa) |
1926 |
Wood Brothers Thresher Co. |
Bau einer neuen Fabrik |
| Keokuk (Iowa) |
1927 |
Hulson, Arthur W. |
Es wurden bisher 152 Lokomotiven bei 26 Bahngesellschaften mit Hulson-Rosten ausgerüstet, und es gibt einen weiteren Auftrag für 35 Roste. |
| Minneapolis (Minnesota) |
1927 |
Honeywell International Inc. |
Zusammenschluß der "Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company" mit Honeywell. Sitz der Gesellschaft ist in Minneapolis |
| Mount Rushmore National Memorial |
1927 |
Ingersoll-Rand Co. |
Die "Ingersoll-Rand" (Werk Painted Post) liefert die Bohrhämmer und transportabelen Kompressoren für die Herstellung des Mount Rushmore-Nationaldenkmals. |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
1928 |
Mankato Electric Traction Co. |
Die Betriebseinnahmen gehen auf $24.184 zurück |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1929 |
Joseph. W. Moon |
Beitritt zur New Era Motors |
| Winona (Minnesota) |
01.01.1929 |
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Three New Year celebrants were killed in Winona Tuesday and a fourth was perhaps fatally injured when their automobile was struck by a Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific passenger train.
The dead all of Winona were Mrs. Irene Weber, Miss Gladys Jackson and John Cleminski, Mrs. Gertrude Page, also of Winona was so seriously injured that she is not expected to live.
The four middle aged persons had left a road house near Winona at 5 a.m. after celebrating the New Year and were returning home when their automobile was struck by the train on a crossing. |
| Hopkins (Minnesota) |
30.03.1929 |
Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co. |
Zusammenschluß mit der "Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Co." und der "Moline Implement Company" zur "Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Company" |
| Fort Scott (Kansas, USA) |
1930 |
Fort Scott Foundry and Machine Works Co. |
Tod von Albert W. Walburn |
| Keokuk (Iowa) |
1930 |
Hulson, Arthur W. |
Einbau von Hulson Tuyere Type Rosten in Lokomotiven der Wabash and Burlington Railroad. 1931 sind Hulson-Roste bei 24 Eisenbahngesellschaften im Einsatz |
| Omaha (Nebraska) |
30.08.1930 |
Buffett, Warren Edward |
Geburt von Warren Edward Buffett in Omaha, Nebraska, USA als zweites Kind des Brokers und späteren Kongressabgeordneten (1942 - 1948, 1950 - 1952) Howard Buffett und seiner Frau Leila (geb. Stahl) in Omaha, Nebraska. Der junge Warren zeigt sich schon als Kind von Zahlen fasziniert und sehr geschäftstüchtig, so verdient er sein erstes eigenes Geld als Zeitungsbote, mit der Vermietung von Flipperautomaten und dem Verkauf gebrauchter Golfbälle. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
31.08.1930 |
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Eight persons are known to have been killed and approximately twenty were injured early Sunday night when the Texas Special of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad was derailed at Osage Hills, about ten miles west of here in St. Louis County.
After an examination, Dr. John O?Connell, coroner of St. Louis County, said the derailment was caused by a large pile of rock placed on the rail.
Investigators for the railroad also said the derailment had been caused by a pile of rocks.
Find Rocks Braced.
At first Coroner O?Connell said it was impossible to tell whether the rocks had been deliberately placed on the rail for the purpose of wrecking the train, or whether it might have been the work of children at play. Later, however, railroad officials said they had found timbers bracing the rocks, which, they said, eliminated the possibility that children were responsible. The accident occurred about 500 feet east of the Osage Hills station. The train, which left St. Louis at 6:30 p.m. for Fort Worth, Dallas and San Antonio, Texas, was traveling about forty miles an hour when the locomotive and three coaches left the rails and overturned. The other coaches left the rails, but did not overturn, reports indicated.
Two Cars Demolished.
Two of the coaches were completely demolished, the force of the derailment having torn two other coaches from their trucks. The track at the point of the wreck is eight feet higher that the tracks of the eastbound roadway, which adjoins. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1931 |
Joseph. W. Moon |
Infolge finanziellen Zusammenbruchs der New Era Motors Schließung der Firma |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1931 |
Joseph. W. Moon |
Infolge finaziellen Zusammenbruchs der New Era Motors Produktionseinstellung von Personenkraftwagen |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
05.12.1931 |
Mankato Electric Traction Co. |
Das Unternehmen ist erloschen |
| Keokuk (Iowa) |
02.05.1933 |
Hulson, Arthur W. |
Erteilung des US-Patents 1.905.228 an Hulson für einen beweglichen Rost "Finger plate locking means" |
| Guttenberg (Iowa) |
11.10.1934 |
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Four persons were killed and 14 injured, eight seriously, when a local Milwaukee passenger train leaped the rails and plunged into a creek bed 14 feet below early today.
The wrecked train, a local from Savanna, Ill., to Lacrosse, Wis., included among the 25 passengers in its single coach several school children who boarded the train at Turkey River shortly before the accident.
Rounding a curve enroute to Guttenberg, the train plunged from the creek trestle into the stream bed. The engine exploded and the cab and tender were torn from the boiler as it struck the water. A mail dispatching car and the passenger coach were both derailed and overturned.
In the excitement the less seriously hurt crawled from the mangled cars and began rescue work. Aid was summoned from Guttenberg and nearby towns. |
| Iowa City (USA) |
12.10.1934 |
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Two persons were killed, two critically injured and six others were less seriously hurt early today when a fast Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific passenger train left the rails six miles east of Iowa City, and three cars tumbled into the path of an onrushing passenger train from the opposite direction.
All those injured were in the derailed train, No. 14, bound for Chicago, which was sideswiped by the westbound train, No. 23.
The fatal crash was the second train wreck in Iowa within 24 hours, piling up a death toll of six with more than 25 injured. The first accident occurred near Guttenberg yesterday when four were killed and 18 injured in the derailment of a Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific passenger train. CLAUDE LAFLER, trainmaster at Iowa City, said the derailment was caused by a broken rail.
He said train 28 crashed down upon the derailed cars before the other train had time to place flags or torpedoes on the tracks. He said it was only a matter of a few seconds between the derailment and the collision of the other train.
The club car and two Pullmans of train 14 left the rails and were sideswiped by the other train. One Pullman in which seven passengers were riding was demolished. |
| Hutchinson (Minnesota) |
21.04.1936 |
Hutchinson Utilities Comm |
Beginn der Bauarbeiten für das Hutchinson Municipal Electric Plant der "Light & Power Plant of Hutchinson" mit drei Dieselmotor-Generatoren (625 PS = 430 kW) |
| Mount Pleasant (Iowa) |
11.08.1936 |
Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute |
Ein Feuer, das von der Vergügungshalle ausgeht, zerstört das fünfstöckige Hauptgebäude (Verwaltungsabteilung) und die Kapelle. Nur das Küchengebäude hinter dem Mittelbau bleibt verschont. |
| Hutchinson (Minnesota) |
27.11.1936 |
Hutchinson Utilities Comm |
Fertigstellung des Hutchinson Municipal Electric Plant der "Light & Power Plant of Hutchinson" |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
1937 |
Little Giant Company |
Die Firma geht bankrott, and L. J. Fazendin kauft die Anteile und wird Eigentümer. |
| Mason City (Iowa) |
22.10.1937 |
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A coroner's jusy of three Mason City business men today viewed the scene of the train-school bus crash which killed 10 persons and injured 19 others at a grade crossing here in the late day.
The jurymen -- VERN P. KIRK, HARRY P. HANSON and FRANK F. SHEPLER -- went over the ground carefully under the direction of Coroner J. E. McDONALD. Then they were taken to view the bodies of the victims before being excused until 10 a.m. Monday when the formal inquest will be held.
Coroner McDONALD released the bodies to their families after the jury had completed its work.
A pile of bricks at the roadside and deafening screams of two dozen students were studied today as possible causes of a train and bus collision in which seven high school students, two teachers, and the driver were killed and 19 persons hurt.
The bus was returning the students to Renwick, Ia., after a day long tour of Mason City industries. The Rock Island Rocket, streamlined passenger train bound from Kansas City to Minneapolis, struck the bus at a crossing.
The bus burst, and bodies and wreckage were strewn for 700 feet along the right-of-way. |
| Omaha (Nebraska) |
1938 |
Nalco Company |
Eine Nalco-Wasserbehandlungsanlage mit einer Leistung von 12,000 gallons in acht Stunden wird für die Union Pacific Railroad in Omaha, Nebraska, eingerichtet. |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
1938/39 |
Swift & Co. |
Durch einen Streik ist die Fabrik für 119 Tage geschlossen |
| Omaha (Nebraska) |
1941 |
Buffett, Warren Edward |
Seine ersten Erfahrungen mit Geldanlagen und dem Aktiengeschäft macht er in der Firma seines Vaters. Dort erwirbt er auch im Alter von 11 Jahren seine ersten drei Aktien. |
| Granby (Missouri) |
07.03.1942 |
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Six persons were killed and at least 45 injured tonight in a head-on collision of two Frisco trains on a trestle near the Granby depot.
Of the dead four were soldiers riding on a special train. The other two were crew members on the crack "Will Rogers", en route from Oklahoma City to St. Louis.
Twenty-five passengers of the "Will Rogers" were reported injured, several seriously. At least 20 soldiers on the special also were injured. The locomotives met head-on at considerable speed but both remained upright.
Most of the dead and injured soldiers were riding in a coach, the third car back of the locomotive. It telescoped into the baggage car ahead, pinning the victims inside. Torches were necessary to cut the bodies from the wreckage.
Frisco officials said a mixup in signals was responsible for the accident.
The "Will Rogers" contained seven cars.
One baggage car toppled off the trestle into a dry creek bed about 10 feet below. The second car, a passenger, overturned and the third car left the rails but remained upright.
There were six coaches and two baggage cars in the other train. The first baggage car overturned. The coach behind the second baggage car crumpled, one observer said, "like an accordion." |
| Keokuk (Iowa) |
31.03.1942 |
Hulson, Arthur W. |
Veröffentlichung des US-Patents Mr.3.254.404 an die "Hulson Grate Company" für eine Rostkonstruktion |
| Fordville (North Dakota) |
1943 |
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Loren C Dillon, 56, Soo Line Conductor and veteran employee of the system since 1905, suffered fatal injuries in a train crash at Fordville, North Dakota Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. He was rushed to a local hospital, where he succumbed Sunday evening.
At the time of the accident Mr. Dillon was in the caboose of a freight train that had gone from Theif River Falls to Fordville, ND and which was standing on a side track while the locomotive backed up to the water tank at the west end of the yards.
After taking on water the locomotive porceeded east on the main track, but when it came to switch it turned off onto the siding and crashed into the caboose, partly telescoping it against a freight car filled with grain.
At the instant the crash occured Mr. Dillon was on the front platform of the caboose, making his way outside. He was caught in such a way that both his feet were cut off above the ankle in addition to all the fingers of his left hand, as well as suffering severe internal injuries. He was placed in a combination car and rushed 82 miles to the nearest hospital in a record 80 minutes. Mr. Dillon was reported having been conscious until reaching Theif River Falls, when he lapsed into unconsciouness which continued until this death Sunday night. |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
1943 |
Little Giant Company |
Der Schwiegersohn von L. J. Fazendin, Jerry Dotson, tritt in die Firma ein. Unter dessen Leitung wächst die Gießerei von einem kleinen Betrieb zu einem relativ großen |
| North Liberty (Iowa) |
17.08.1943 |
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MR. and MRS. CARROL COLONEY of near Oakdale were killed and their three sons injured Tuesday night at 7:35 o'clock when their car was struck by a Cedar Rapids and Iowa City interurban a mile and a half north of North Liberty.
The parents were apparently killed instantly, according to Sheriff Preston D. Koser, but the three sons, CHARLES, 16, BILLY LEE, 10, and JOE, 6, were conscious when taken from the car which had been pushed for at least half a block along the tracks. University hospital officials here today said the condition of the boys was satisfactory. A daughter, CAROLINE, was not with the family at the time of the crash.
Though the front of the interurban car was derailed by the collision, none of the passengers was injured. |
| Kansas City (Kansas) |
1944 |
Einstein, Albert |
Die handschriftliche Abschrift der Arbeit "Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper", von Einstein 1905 verfaßt, wird in Kansas City für 6 Millionen dollar versteigert. Der Erlös kommt der Library of Congress zugute. |
| Des Moines (Iowa) |
1945 |
Wood Brothers Thresher Co. |
Franz John Wood, immer noch Präsident, zieht sich zurück |
| Michigan (North Dakota) |
09.08.1945 |
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Der erste Teil des "Empire Builder" mußte wegen eines heißgelaufenen Achslagers halten. Sein Personal sicherte allerdings nicht, wie vorgeschrieben, den Zug nach hinten. So fuhr der zweite Zugteil auf und bohrte sich in den kombinierten Aussichts- und Schlafwagen. 34 Tote, ungefähr 50 Verletzte |
| Michigan (North Dakota) |
10.08.1945 |
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Twenty bodies were removed today from the crumpled observation car of the Great Northern railway's Empire Builder. Officials estimated the death toll would be between 25 and 40.
A spokesman for the railroad said that a majority of the dead were servicemen. Of the first 17 bodies removed, 10 were soldiers, he said, adding that the death list would reach at least 25.
An officer of the state guard unit at Devil Lake said the death toll woul drise to at least 40. He said at least that many soldiers were killed in the rear car of the train when the second section of the Empire Builder crashed into the first section.
Identification Dead.
Identification of the dead was made difficult by the charred condition of many bodies which were seared when the car burst into flames.
Workers had succeeded in cutting away half the telescoped car.
The accident occurred about seven-thirty p.m. (CWT) last night when the first section of the train stopped about a half mile from the small Michigan depot because of a "hot box" on the locomotive.
Before flares could be put out to warn the second section, it plowed into the rear coach, a combination Pullman-observation car. It split the coach down the middle.
The engine's boiler exploded on impact and searing steam scalded those already dying. The Pullman ahead of the observation car was derailed. A railroad spokesman said the collision occurred on a curve a short distance west of the Michigan station shortly before 7 p.m. (CWT) after the first section had stopped to cool a hotbox on the locomotive's fuel tank. With a crash which shook every house in this community of less than 500 population, the speeding second section plowed into the rear end of the train. |
| Minneapolis (Minnesota) |
1946 |
Honeywell International Inc. |
Gründung der "Minneapolis Honeywell Aero Division" |
| Mount Pleasant (Iowa) |
1946 |
Mount Pleasant Mental Health Institute |
Die Anstalt erreicht ihre maximale Belegung mit 1.581 Patienten |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
1946 |
Villaume Box and Lumber Company |
Ein Feuer in einem der Gebäude zerstört Holz im Werte von Tausenden von Dollars |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
1946 |
Villaume Box and Lumber Company |
Tod von Frank Villaume. - Julius, das letzte Mitglied der zweiten Unternehmergeneration, wird sein Nachfolger als Vorstandsvorsitzender |
| Higbee (Missouri) |
13.05.1947 |
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Zusammenstoß des Alton-Burlington Zephyr (Stromlinienzug) mit einem nach Norden fahrenden Güterzug Missouri - Kansas - Texas an einer Kreuzung in Higbee am Nachmittag. Der Lokomotivführer des Zephyr, Ed Donohew, erleidet kleine Schnittwunden am Kopf. Ein Güterwagen überschlägt sich, zwei weitere entgleisen, und die Lokomotive des Zephyr verläßt die Gleise |
| Otterville (Missouri) |
01.01.1948 |
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The second section of a Missouri Pacific train plowed into the rear end of another passenger train in a driving snowstorm near Otterville today, killing at least 14 holiday travelers, one of whom was tentatively identified as the wife of the former Ambassador to Spain, ALEXANDER W. WEDDELL. The two sections of "The Missourian" were running far behind schedule at about 8 o'clock this morning on their night run from St. Louis to Kansas City when the locomotive of the second section crashed into the rear Pullman of the first train, killing all occupants of the car. Trainmen said both sections of "The Missourian" were traveling slowly in the snowstorm when the wreck occurred about 95 miles east of Kansas City. Five mail cars of the second train were derailed. NEFF issued this statement on the cause of the wreck:
"Reports received so far indicate there probably was flagrant negligence on the part of certain train employes, as this track is fully equipped with automatic block signals. It appears these signals were showing red, or stop, indication because of conditions brought about by the storm in this area and that the precautions called for by the rules under those conditions were completely disregarded."
A spokesman for the railroad explained that the rules referred to require that a train be brought to a stop when signals show red and that it proceed only with trainmen going ahead on foot. The collision would indicate that no trainmen were preceding the second train on foot, he said. |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
1948 |
Swift & Co. |
Durch einen Streik steht die Fabrik für 67 Tage still |
| Hopkins (Minnesota) |
1949 |
Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co. |
Émile Mathis (Straßburg) beginnt den Traktorenbau in Lizenz von "Minneapolis-Moline" unter dem Markennamen "Mathis-Moline" |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
14.12.1949 |
Swift & Co. |
Ein unterirdisches Gasleck an einer Erdgasleitung führt um 11.33 Uhr zu einer Explosion mit 21 Toten und 91 Verletzten. Der Schaden beträgt $1.000.000 |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
1950/52 |
Swift & Co. |
Wiederaufbau der Fabrik nach der Gasexplosion von 1949 |
| Mount Pleasant (Iowa) |
21.08.1950 |
Midwest Old Threshers |
Gründung der Midwest Old Settlers and Threshers Association (MOSTA) |
| Kansas City (MO) |
1951 |
Kansas City Stock Yards |
Eine große Überschwemmung verwüstet die Anlagen |
| Omaha (Nebraska) |
1951 |
Buffett, Warren Edward |
Nach Studien an der Wharton School of Finance und der University of Nebraska erwirbt W. E. Buffett an der Columbia University in New York den "master in economics". Dort ist einer seiner Lehrer der "Vater der Fundamentalanalyse", Benjamin Graham. Buffett erhält das einzige A+, das Graham in 22-jähriger Lehrtätigkeit vergeben sollte. Zunächst arbeitet er in der Firma seines Vaters, Buffett-Falk. |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
13.04.1952 |
Villaume Box and Lumber Company |
Das Hochwasser des Mississippi durchbricht zu Ostern den Deich und überschwemmt das Werk im Erdgeschoß und teilweise im 1. Obergeschoß. - Nach Rückgang der Flut beginnen die Aufräumarbeiten am 21. April |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
08.06.1953 |
Swift & Co. |
Ein Hochwasser des Floyd River richtet große Schäden an |
| Chisholm (Minnesota) |
1954 |
Minnesota Museum of Mining |
Gründung durch Charles T. Wangensteen |
| Minneapolis (Minnesota) |
1954 |
Honeywell International Inc. |
Die Honeywell Research entwickelt einen Germanium-Leistungsransistor. Gründung der Transistor-Abteilung in Minneapolis |
| Omaha (Nebraska) |
1954 |
Buffett, Warren Edward |
Buffett nimmt das Angebot seines ehemaligen Lehrers Graham an, in dessen Brokerfirma Graham-Newman als Wertpapieranalyst zu arbeiten. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1954 |
Semple Engine Comp. |
Gründung |
| Des Moines (Iowa) |
1955 |
Wood Brothers Thresher Co. |
Das Werk (schon im Besitz von "Dearborn Motors", Detroit) wird die Werkzeugfabrik Des Moines für die "Ford Motor Co.". |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
1955 |
Little Giant Company |
Tod von L. J. Fazendin. Jerry Dotson ist weiterhin Präsident der "The Dotson Company and Fairview Corporation" |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
1955 |
Villaume Box and Lumber Company |
Da die Gründungsakte am 03.07.1957 auslaufen wird, denken viele Teilhaber der Familiengesellschaft an eine Auflösung des Unternehmens. Jedoch Eugenes Tochter Eugenie Meyerding will nicht, daß das Werk ihres Vaters verloren geht. Es gelingt ihr nicht, die Anderen zu überzeugen, und es werden Rechtsanwälte für die Verständigung zwischen den Vorstandsmitgliedern bemüht. Zum Schluß findet sich eine außergerichtliche Lösung: Julius Villaume kündigt seinen Rückzug an, und er und seine Nichte verkaufen ihre Anteile vollkommen an Frau Eugenie Villaume Meyerding und ihre Familie. Somit wird das Unternehmen für die Zukunft bewahrt. |
| Wichita (Kansas) |
1955 |
Cudahy Packing Company |
Die "Purex Corporation, Ltd." erwirbt das Reinigungsmittel "Old Dutch Cleanser" von Cudahy |
| Omaha (Nebraska) |
1956-1969 |
Buffett, Warren Edward |
Der im Laufe der Jahre nach Teilnehmern und Einlagen kräftig wachsende Investmentpool erzielt von 1956 bis 1969 ein durchschnittliches jährliches Anlageergebnis von 29,5 % (dabei verdient Buffett 25 % des über 4% hinausgehenden Anlageergebnisses ). Für die Anfangsinvestoren werden so (nach Abzug von Buffett's Erfolgsanteil) aus 10.000 $ sagenhafte 150.000 , im gleichen Zeitraum hätte eine Investition in den Dow-Jones-Index lediglich einen Betrag von etwas mehr als 15.000 ergeben. |
| Wichita (Kansas) |
1956 |
Cudahy Packing Company |
Der Firmensitz wird von Omaha nach Phoenix verlegt. Änderung der Firma in "Cudahy Company" |
| Omaha (Nebraska) |
01.05.1956 |
Buffett, Warren Edward |
Nachdem sich Graham 1956 ins Privatleben zurückgezogen hatte, gründet Buffett in Omaha seinen ersten privaten Investmentpool (Limited Partnership) mit einer eigenen symbolischen Einzahlung von 100 . Weitere 105.000 werden von sieben Verwandten und Bekannten beigesteuert. |
| Minneapolis (Minnesota) |
1957 |
Adolf Bühler |
Bühler gründet eine Niederlassung in Minneapolis |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
Ende 1957 |
Villaume Box and Lumber Company |
Robert Linsmayer übernimmt die Stellung als neuer Präsident von Villaume und beginnt einen Umbau und eine Neuausrichtung des Unternehmens. Linsmayer ist mit Eugene Villaumes Enkelin Christine verheiratet und kam 1951 in das Unternehmen. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1958 |
Fulton Iron Works |
Erwerbung der "Lehmann Boring Tool Division". Das gestattet Fulton, seine Produktionsbasis auszubauen. Einer der Höhepunkte ist die Möglichkeit, Bohrgeräte für amerikanische Unterseeboote zu bauen. |
| Keokuk (Iowa) |
ca. 13.01.1958 |
Hulson, Arthur W. |
Tod von A. W. Hulson vmtl. in Keokuk |
| Iowa City (USA) |
1959 |
The O. S. Kelly Manufacturing Co. |
Die Gebäude werden bis 1992 von den "Advanced Drainage Systems" genutzt. |
| Saint Charles (Missouri) |
1959 |
Saint Charles Car Company |
Schließung des ACF-Werks infolge fehlenden Markts für stählerne Reisezugwagen |
| Minneapolis (Minnesota) |
1960 |
R. R. Howell & Co. |
Roger David Swanstrom (gest. 21.02. 2002 in Largo, FL, im Alter von 84 Jahren) wird Director der "R. R. Howell Co.". |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
18.07.1960 |
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A 17-unit Milwaukee Road passenger train, hurtling along at 73 m.p.h. slammed into a trailer-truck Monday. Dozens of passengers on the afternoon Hiawatha en route to Chicago suffered minor injuries; 10 were hospitalized overnight.
The truck driver, ROBERT KENSLER, 31, St. Paul, escaped injury as the train sheared off the trailer stacked high with aluminum girders for a nearby construction project.
The lead diesel engine and seven cars flipped over and others stacked up in crazy patterns.
Fireman NORMAN SCHNELL, 37, Hastings, Minn., said the train crew looked on almost in disbelief as the truck approached the crossing in suburban St. Paul Park at a leisurely pace.
"It amazed us," said the hospitalized SCHNELL. "The guy was going so slow we were sure he would stop. But he didn't."
KENSLER said he didn't see the train when he started across. He said he had a "feeling of death" when he suddenly saw it almost on top of him. |
| Omaha (Nebraska) |
1962 |
Buffett, Warren Edward |
Nach dem Erwerb der Mehrheit an der Firma Dempster Mill: Er läßt das Kapital eines wenig aussichtsreichen Firmengeschäftes in vielversprechendere Beteiligungen fließen. |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
1962 |
Ryan Hotel |
Abgerissen |
| Minneapolis (Minnesota) |
1965 |
R. R. Howell & Co. |
Roger David Swanstrom wird Präsident und Vorsitzender der "R. R. Howell Co.". |
| Omaha (Nebraska) |
1965 |
Buffett, Warren Edward |
Erwerbung der Firma "Berkshire Hathaway", die als Investitionsvehikel dient und die von Buffett im Laufe der Zeit von einer Textilfirma in eine Holdinggesellschaft mit Schwerpunkt im Versicherungsgeschäft, mittlerweile 66 eigenen Firmen und vielen weiteren Beteiligungen umgewandelt wird. |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
1967 |
Little Giant Company |
Beginn einer Sphäroguß-Gießerei nördlich der originalen Rock Street foundry. |
| Omaha (Nebraska) |
1967-1969 |
Buffett, Warren Edward |
Gegen Ende der 1960er Jahre beunruhigt Buffett die immer stärker auf kurzfristige Kurssteigerungen und hochspekulative Aktien setzende Atmosphäre an der Wall Street. So schreibt er schon 1967 in einem Brief an seine Anleger : "Ich kann mit mit den herrschenden Bedingungen nichts mehr anfangen". |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1968 |
Fulton Iron Works |
Erwerbung der Ferracute und der Farquhar press lines |
| Omaha (Nebraska) |
1969 |
Buffett, Warren Edward |
Konsequenterweise löst Buffett den Investmentpool auf und bietet seinen Investoren an, ihr Geld in Anteile von Berkshire Hathaway zum gegenwärtigen Kurs von etwa etwa 43 /Anteil (ein solcher Anteil ist Ende 2004 ungefähr 87.000 wert) zu tauschen (er hatte 1965 für seinen Investmentpool die Mehrheit an der Firma erworben). Zu diesem Zeitpunkt hat er durch den Kauf einer Versicherung (National Indemnity), einer Zeitung (Sun Newspapers of Omaha) sowie einer Bank (Illinois National Bank&Trust) das noch vorhandene Kapital von Berkshire Hathaway bereits teilweise in textilfremde Beteiligungen investiert |
| Omaha (Nebraska) |
1969-1971 |
Buffett, Warren Edward |
Nach dem Zusammenbruch der hochriskanten Aktien und Investmentfonds 1969 bis 1971 sollen die 60'er Jahre in der Rückschau als "Go-Go-Years" bekanntwerden (benannt nach dem gleichnamigen Buch des bekannten Autors John Brooks), besonders personifiziert durch Personen wie Fred Carr (Enterprise Fund), Fred Mates (Mates Fund), Gerald T'Sai (Manhattan Fund) und nicht zuletzt Bernard Cornfeld und sein Investors Overseas Services Imperium. |
| Joplin (Missouri) |
1970 |
Kugelfischer Georg Schäfer & Co. |
Die Kugelfischer-Fertigung der "FAG Bearings Corp." wird im neu errichteten Werk Joplin, Missouri aufgenommen. |
| Omaha (Nebraska) |
Anfang 1970 |
Buffett, Warren Edward |
Buffett besitzt Anfang 1970 neben Berkshire Hathaway noch Beteiligungen an den Firmen Diversified Retailing und Blue Chip Stamps. |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
Sommer 1970 |
Villaume Box and Lumber Company |
Umzug vom Mississippi auf ein 16 acres großes Grundstück an den Milwaukee-Gleisen in Eagan. Das neue Gebäude ist im sommer fertiggestellt. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1971 |
Union Terminal Station |
Niedergang, nachdem Amtrack den Personenverkehr übernommen hat. |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
1973 |
Little Giant Company |
Jerry Dotsons Sohn, Dennis, tritt in die Firma ein |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
Spätjahr 1974 |
Swift & Co. |
Schließung der Fabrik, da ihre Anlage nicht mehr den gegewärtigen Standards der Fleischverarbeitung entspricht. Die Anlage wird in den Bridgeprt Industrial Park verlegt. |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
1975 |
Swift & Co. |
Kermit Lohry, ein Geschäftsmann aus Sioux City (Mit-Inhaber von "Kay Dee Feed Co."), kauft das Gebäude von Swift. Er verwandelt es in ein Einkaufszentrum mit einem Teil der alten Ausstattung als Dekoration. Der Komplex öffnet 1976 unter dem Namen "KD Stockyards Station" mit fast 50 Einzelhandelsgeschäften. |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
1976 |
Little Giant Company |
Beginn einer Stahlguß-Gießerei |
| Minneapolis (Minnesota) |
1976 |
Minneapolis Brewing Co. |
Schließung |
| Le Sueur (Minn.) |
1977 |
Le Sueur County Pioneer Power Association |
Eintragung unter den Gesetzen von Minnesota |
| Mankato (Minn.) |
1978 |
Little Giant Company |
Tod von Jerry Dotson. Sein Sohn Dennis wird der Präsident der Gesellschaft. |
| Keith County (Nebraska) |
1979 |
Kingsley Power Plant |
Lieferung einer Kaplanturbine durch J. M. Voith, Heidenheim |
| Omaha (Nebraska) |
1979-1982 |
Buffett, Warren Edward |
Die Unternehmen Diversified Retailing und Blue Chip Stamps fusionierte er mit Berkshire Hathaway (1979 Diversified Retailing, 1982 Blue Chip Stamps), nachdem es nicht zuletzt aufgrund vermuteter Interessenkonflikte (Blue Chip Stamps ist ebenfalls eine Art Investmentholding) Mitte der 70'er Jahre zu einer Ermittlung der amerikanischen Börsenaufsicht SEC gegen ihn gekommen war. |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
1979 |
Swift & Co. |
Das Gebäude wird im National Register of Historic Places als einzige verbliebene Fleischfabrik Sioux City unter Denkmalschutz gestellt. |
| Lawrence (Kansas) |
02.10.1979 |
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Der Southwest Limited entgleist in Lawrence, Kansas. Von den 30 Besatzungsmitgliedern und 147 Fahrgästen werden 2 getötet und 69 werden verletzt. Ursache ist überhöhte Geschwindigkeit in der Kurve. Der Lokführer war mit der Strecke nicht vertraut, und die Signale der Geschwindigkeitssignalisierung waren während Gleisarbeiten entfernt |
| Wichita (Kansas) |
1981 |
Cudahy Packing Company |
Übernahme durch die "Bar-S Foods Company" |
| Kansas City (Kansas) |
17.07.1981 |
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Ein Jahr nach Fertigstellung eines Luxushotels in Kansas City (US-Bundesstaat Kansas) stürzen zwei Galerien des Gebäudes in die Hotelhalle. Bei dem Unglück sterben 113 Menschen. |
| Plattsburg (Missouri) |
1982 |
Dörpmuseum Münkeboe |
Die Windmühle wird komplett renoviert. |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
1982 |
Northern Pacific Railroad, Como Shops |
Stillegung |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
1985 |
Union Terminal Station |
Umwandlung in ein Hotel und Unterhaltungszentrum |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
1985 |
American Hoist & Derrick Company |
Verlegung des Unternehmens von der South Robert Street in eine neue Fabrik in Wilmington, N.C |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
1985 |
Northern Pacific Railroad, Como Shops |
Eintragung im National Register of Historic Places |
| Mount Pleasant (Iowa) |
1986 |
Midwest Old Threshers |
Eröffnung der Ausstellung "Water-Too Little, Too Much" |
| Mount Pleasant (Iowa) |
1987 |
Midwest Old Threshers |
Eröffnung der Ausstellung "Electricity Comes To the Farm" |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
08.1987 |
American Hoist & Derrick Company |
Eine Gruppe von privaten Investoren kauft die Lokomotiv- und Lkw-Produktionslinien von Amdura. Der Name der Gesellschaft wird in "American Crane Corporation" umgewandelt. |
| Mount Pleasant (Iowa) |
1988 |
Midwest Old Threshers |
Eröffnung des Log Village Barn |
| Mount Pleasant (Iowa) |
1989 |
Midwest Old Threshers |
Eröffnung des North Village Print Shop |
| Joplin (Missouri) |
1990 |
FAG Kugelfischer |
In den FAG-Werken Joplin, USA, und Schweinfurt gehen neue Fertigungslinien für Radlagereinheiten, so genannte Hub Units, in Betrieb. |
| Kansas City (MO) |
1991 |
Kansas City Stock Yards |
Schließung |
| Iowa City (USA) |
1993 |
The O. S. Kelly Manufacturing Co. |
Abbruch der Gebäude |
| Mount Pleasant (Iowa) |
1993 |
Midwest Old Threshers |
Eröffnung der Ausstellung "American Farm Implements" |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
16.02.1996 |
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In der amerikanischen Großstadt St. Paul ist ein Güterzug entgleist und in das Firmengebäude einer Eisenbahngesellschaft gerast. Dabei wurden in der Nacht zu gestern acht Menschen verletzt. |
| Forest City (Iowa) |
Sommer 1997 |
Heritage Park of North Iowa |
Plan zur Schaffung eines regionalen Heritage Parks |
| Forest City (Iowa) |
1998 |
Heritage Park of North Iowa |
Es wird vereinbart, daß das "Holtan Farm Museum" und das "Timberland Museum" auf das Gelände des Heritage Park zieht und daß die drei regionalen Farm Shows dort vereinigt werden. Die "Winnebago Historical Society" wird die Mutterorganisation. |
| Saint Paul (Minnesota) |
08.1998 |
American Hoist & Derrick Company |
Verkauf der Gesellschaft an die "Terex Corporation" in Westport, Connecticut. |
| Forest City (Iowa) |
1999 |
Heritage Park of North Iowa |
Die Hanson Foundation ist damit einverstanden, von den "Winnebago Industries, Inc." die Farm für drei Jahre zu pachten, und wenn bestimmte Bedingungen erfüllt sind, diese für den "Heritage Park of North Iowa" zu erwerben. |
| Saint Louis (Missouri) |
18.02.2000 |
Fulton Iron Works |
Fulton wird eine 100prozentige Tochter der South Side Machine Works, Inc. auch in St. Louis, Missouri, ansässig. Diese beiden Produktionsstätten haben mehr als 200,000 square feet Produktionsfläche und beschäftigen 110 Maschinenbauer und Schweißer. |
| Forest City (Iowa) |
Frühjahr 2001 |
Heritage Park of North Iowa |
Die 90.69 acre große Farm wird den "Winnebago Industries, Inc." abgekauft. |
| Minot (North Dakota) |
18.01.2002 |
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At approximately 1:37 a.m. a Canadian Pacific Railway freight train 292-16 derailed 31 of its 112 cars about 1/2 mile west of the city limits of Minot, North Dakota. Five tank cars carrying anhydrous ammonia catastrophically ruptured, and a vapor plume covered the derailment site and surrounding area. One resident was fatally injured, 11 people sustained serious injuries, and 322 people, including the 2 train crewmembers, sustained minor injuries. Damages exceeded 2 million, and more than 8 million has been spent for environmental remediation |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
16.03.2004 |
Swift & Co. |
Der Brand an einem im Freien stehenden Transformator führt zu Schäden an der Fassade des Gebäudes vom 1. bis zum 6. Geschoß. - Zur selben Zeit ist auch das Dach ist beschädigt; dieser Schaden wird nicht beseitigt. |
| Osage (Iowa) |
22.04.2004 |
Smolik, Ray |
Tod von Ray Smolik im St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. - Die Trauerfeier findet in der Our Savior's Lutheranischen Kirche in Osage statt, die Beerdigung auf dem Friedhof in Osage. |
| Rochester (MN) |
22.04.2004 |
Ray Smolik |
Tod von Ray Smolik im St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. - Die Trauerfeier findet in der Our Savior's Lutheranischen Kirche in Osage statt, die Beerdigung auf dem Friedhof in Osage. |
| Rochester (MN) |
22.04.2004 |
Smolik, Ray |
Tod von Ray Smolik im St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. - Die Trauerfeier findet in der Our Savior's Lutheranischen Kirche in Osage statt, die Beerdigung auf dem Friedhof in Osage. |
| Saratoga (Iowa) |
21.11.2005 |
Fritcher, John |
Verstorben im Alter von 88 Jahren |
| Saratoga (Iowa) |
21.11.2005 |
John Fritcher |
Verstorben im Alter von 88 Jahren |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
27.12.2006 |
Swift & Co. |
Eine Brandstiftung durch drei Jugendliche (mit Einsatz von Benzin als Brandbeschleuniger) im 4. Geschoß führt zu weiteren Gebäudeschäden. Die Brandbekämpfung dauert 2 Tage. Der Haupttäter, der 18jährige, arbeitslose und drogenabhängige David Whitlock, wird im November 2007 zu 10 Jahren Freiheitsstrafe verurteilt. |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
2007 |
Swift & Co. |
Die Stadt erwirbt das beschädigte Gebäude und ebnet den Weg für den Abbruch |
| Minneapolis (Minnesota) |
01.08.2007 |
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Einsturz einer Autobahnbrücke in Minneapolis. Ursache sind Materialermüdungen des Tragwerks. 13 Tote und 100 Verletzte. Die Ursache des Einsturzes war laut dem Untersuchungsbericht des National Transportation Safety Board ein Konstruktionsfehler der Ingenieure, welche die Knotenbleche der Stahlträger falsch dimensioniert hatten. Im Abschlußbericht wird auch die mangelhafte Überwachung durch die Aufsichtsbehörden kritisiert. Einige Wochen vor dem Einsturz begannen Bauarbeiten im Bereich der Brückenkonstruktion. Daher war die Verkehrsführung auf zwei Fahrstreifen in jede Richtung beschränkt worden. |
| Sergeant Bluff (USA) |
04.09.2007 |
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Entgleisung auf der Union Pacific in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa. Er Ort wird in zwei Teile geteilt. Rund 16 Wagen, zumeist mit Salz beladen, entleeren sich dabei. Der Verkehr ist für zwei Stunden unterbrochen. |
| Cedar Falls (Iowa) |
2009 |
D. La Porte Söhne GmbH |
Gründung eines Tochterwerks in den USA, die "D. La Porte North America LLC" in Cedar Falls, Iowa |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
2009 |
Swift & Co. |
Die Stadt schließt einen Vertrag mit der "Dore & Associates Contracting Inc." aus Bay City, Mich., um den Asbest zu entfernen und das Gebäude für $3.156.000 abzubrechen. |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
12.04.2010 |
Swift & Co. |
Mit einer 6.000-pound-Abrißbirne bricht die Firma "Dore & Associates" den Fabrikschornstein ab, ohne Interessierte und Fotografen davon zu informieren. |
| Sioux City (Iowa) |
30.06.2010 |
Swift & Co. |
Die Firma Dore kommt ihrem Schlußtermin (30. Juni) beim Abriß der Anlage (für über $3.000.000) zuvor. - Noch 2014 steht das 2,2 ha große Gelände leer. |
| Le Center (USA) |
31.01.2011 |
Leonard L. Rynda |
Tod von L. L. Rynda in Le Center im Alter von 91 Jahren. - Er wird am 2. Februar auf dem katholischen St.-John-Friedhof in Montgomery begraben. |
| Chaffee (USA) |
25.05.2013 |
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In Chaffee, Missouri, stößt ein Zug der Union Pacific train mit einem BNSF-Zug auf einer niveaugleichen Anschlußstelle zusammen. 7 Verletzte. Insgesamt 24 Wagen entgleisen. Betroffen sind auch die beiden Lokomotiven der Union Pacific engines. Vmtl. war der Lokführer eingeschlafen, bedingt durch Schlaf-Apneue. Dabei wurden vier Signale mit fortschreitenden Einschränkungen mißachtet, so daß der UP-Zug mit dem BNSF-Zug mit ca. 40 MPH zusammenstößt. Der Gesamtschaden überschreitet 10 Millionen Dollar. Die Missouri Route M -Brücke wird im August 2013 in neuer Konstruktion wiedereröffnet. |
| Chaffee (USA) |
03.06.2016 |
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Ein Ölzug mit 96 Wagen entgleist in der Columbia River Gorge bei Mosier, Oregon. 11 Wagen entgleisen und mindestens einer fängt / einige Wagen fangen Feuer. 42.000 gallons von Bakken-Rohöl laufen aus, von denen 10.000 gallons geborgen werden. Einiges Öl fließt in den Colombia River. Die Reinigungs- und Nachforschungsarbeiten dauern bis zum 6. Juni 2016. |
