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The Pentwater (Michigan) News
Friday, October 14, 1898


           COLLISION ON NORTHWESTERN
           
           Fireman DUCKWALL of Chicago Killed
              and Three Cars Burned.
              
           One man killed, three cars burned, and a locomotive
         wrecked was the result of a collision between a passen-
         ger and freight train on the Chicago and Northwestern
         Railroad, about eight miles south of Milwaukee. The
         freight train was standing on the main track, and the
         accident was caused by failure of Engineer LANE of the
         passenger to notice a block danger signal. The passen-
         ger train on crashing into the freight telescope the
         caboose, setting it on fire. The locomotive toppled
         over sideways, burying Fireman THOMAS DUCKWALL of Chi-
         cago, whose dead body was taken out several hours later
         in a badly mangled condition. The engineer escaped.
         The flames communicated to the mail car and also to a
         freight car containing coke, next to the caboose, the
         three being destroyed. All the mail, with the exception
         of one or two sacks, was saved and the mail clerks es-
         caped unhurt.
         
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