On This Date in Minnesota History: October 31

October 31, 1912 – The Soo-Brooten passenger train crashed into a switch engine in the railroad yards in Duluth at 9:18 this evening. As a result, E.W. McFarland, engineer of the passenger train, was taken to St. Mary’s hospital with both legs badly mangled. He was expected to live only a few hours. When the collision took place he refused to jump and was pinned beneath the engine until 11 p.m., when he was rescued.

J. E. Estep, switchman, was injured in jumping from the moving train, but his injuries were not serious.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Collison in Duluth Yards. Engineer of Passenger Train Believed Fatally Hurt in Accident.”; Nov. 1, 1912; p. 1.

St. Mary's Hospital, Duluth

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