Sept 12, 1913 Scott Co. Argus Arthur E. Clark, deputy state fire marshal, was instantly killed by a train on the M&St.L. tracks at Carver last week. He was walking on the tracks inspecting grain elevators and owing to deafness did not hear the approaching train. His body was badly mutilated.

Nov 7, 1913 Shakopee Tribune A train on the M&St.L. ran into a threshing outfit at Hopkins. It took several hours to clear the wreckage. Mar

27, 1914 Scott Co. Argus John Edberg of Carver was awarded $10,750 damages against the M&St.L. R.R. Co. for injuries received while in performance of his duties as a dray and expressman at the depot.

Sept 25, 1914 Shakopee Tribune Ten section hands working with pick and shovel on the M&St.L. road at Montgomery, quit when they were informed that their wages would be cut from $1.60 to $1.50 a day. The management of the Misery & Short Life should shame themselves to the bottom of their hearts, if they have any. Just think of it, $1.50 a day. Suppose some one of the officials wants to purchase a 7 passenger selfstarter or wants to give a banquet to a bunch of bloated bond holders or perhaps the price of chicken has gone up.-Waconia Patriot

Oct 30, 1914 Shakopee Tribune Another train wreck on the M&St.L. occurred at Waterville last Monday. The wreck was caused by a defective switch. The engineer lost an arm and 60 passengers were reported injured.

Dec 17, 1915 Shakopee Tribune Another bad freight wreck occurred on the M&St.L. at Waterville last week when two freight trains collided. No one was hurt. This is the 4th wreck in about the same place in the last 2 years. A bad wreck occurred at Merriam jct on the M&St.L. early Wednesday morning when a freight train ran into an open switch upsetting the engine. The engineer, Martin J. Coleman, fireman Henry Gipford and head brakeman John Clayton were taken to Kehrer hospital, Jordan, suffering from terrible scalds and other injuries. They are considered seriously injured.

Mar 10, 1916 Shakopee Tribune The M&St.L. R.R. will lay 15 miles of new steel rails the coming summer between Mpls. and Albert Lea. Mar

31, 1916 Shakopee Tribune A derailed box car at Hopkins was the cause of the wreck on the M&St.L. last Wednesday.

Mar 16, 1917 Shakopee Tribune As the result of a railroad crossing collision at Merriam on Wednesday morning about 9 o'clock, Willard Mace, engineer and Anthony Monschaw, fireman on the M&St.L. are lying in Kehrer hospital in Jordan both suffering badly wrenched backs and minor bruises. both men are residents of Mpls. The Omaha's west bound passenger train No. 5 and the M&St.L. train No. 3, south bound, through some misunderstanding, collided at the Jct. of the two roads. the Omaha engine tipping the St.L. locomotive, leaving it square across the Omaha tracks and delaying traffic for five hours. All Omaha trains arrived here over the Milwaukee, through Chaska. Several passengers were badly shaken up, with no bad results and others were unaware of what happened.

Mar 30, 1917 Shakopee Tribune The M&St.L. R.R. Co. has purchased 1,500 new cars to be delivered in time for the next crop harvest.

June 15, 1917 Shakopee Tribune Wm. Plackner of Carver, employed as a section hand on the M&St.L. was badly cut and bruised when the handcar he was riding ran into an open switch at Chaska.

Sept 14, 1917 Shakopee Tribune A crew of 75 men are at work near Carver constructing a new railroad bridge over the Minnesota river.

Dec 6, 1918 Scott Co. Argus Carver hopes to get a new depot, the M&St.L. depot succumbing to the fire demon last week. Sparks from a passing engine started the blaze.

Apr 16, 1920 Shakopee Argus Struck by a passenger train on the M&St.L. road as he was driving over the crossing at Eden Praire Saturday morning, Andrew Donavan, a prominent citizen of Belle Plaine was instantly killed. Mr. Donavan was returning from the Twin Cities, driving a new Ford roadster which he had just purchased. he was due here for jury duty at 10 o'clock and had called up before leaving St. Paul to say that he was on his way. After passing Eden Prairie he apparently thought of some forgotten errand and turned back toward the city. He reached the crossing just as the train, which was going at a good speed, it struck the closed automobile squarely throwing the car in one direction and the driver in another, a distance of 70 feet. Mr. Donavan's skull was crushed and his body was cut and badly mangled, many bones being broken. The car was reduced to kindling wood and one tire was not found at all. Hirscher Bro.'s went to Eden Prairie and returned to Shakopee with the remains, which were taken to Belle Plaine on the 6 o'clock evening train. Shakopee council, K. of C., escorted the remains to the station. (Goes on to describe his life)

Oct 26, 1923 Shakopee Argus A shocking accident occurred Thursday evening of last week, about 5:30 o'clock, when a Chaska young man, Reinhard Schallow, aged 22, was killed and his girl companion, Adeline Lenz, 20, of Glencoe, slightly injured when the small touring car he was driving collided with a M&St.L. freight at a grade crossing 2 miles east of Chaska. Schallow's body was hurled 60 feet and the machine 30 feet by the force of the crash but Miss Lenz was saved by being thrown beside the tracks. Schallow's view of the train was cut off by a hill at that point and on a down grade he was making about 25 miles per hour. When the train hit the auto it had a speed of 40 miles per hour, it is estimated. Schallow and Miss Lenz were returning from Excelsior when the accident happened. Their car was completely demolished. Schallow was the star forward on the town basketball team and also a good football and baseball player. The funeral took place afternoon from Chaska Lutheran church, a very large attendance being present at the services.

June 10, 1926 Shakopee Argus-Tribune A tragic accident happened about 9 o'clock Tuesday morning when an unknown man, aged about 70 years of age was struck and killed by the southbound passenger train on the M&St.L. R.R., about 1 mile north of Merriam Jct. station. The remains, badly mutilated, were picked up by the train crew and taken to Merriam where they were viewed coroner H.W. Reiter before they were brought to Hirsher's undertaking rooms in this city. Dr. Reiter's informs us that no clue to the mans relatives nor any family connections has been found and the remains were buried yesterday at county expense.

May 7, 1925 Hennepin Co. Review Milk went up in the air higher than it has been for some time when the morning passenger train on the M&St.L. road hit the 3 1/2 ton truck owned by the Pauly Bro's of Chanhassen when it was being driven through Hopkins Tuesday morning. Luckily the driver, Herman Ehr, escaped from the wrecked truck with a bad cut in the back of his head and some bruises on his left side. Mr. Ehr claimed he did not see the oncoming train until it was too late, owing to an auto that was just ahead of him at the crossing turning to the right obstructing his view. The pilot of the engine hit the truck nearly in the middle and milk cans flew in all directions, some of them being ground under the wheels of the train. The truck was a double decker and some of the cans smashed the headlight of the engine so badly it had to be pried off and left alongside the track. One of the tires from a rear wheel headed down the track in front of the engine and stopped in the yard of the Pavek home more than a hundred feet from the wreck. The truck was mostly a heap of wreckage, the front wheels and cab being about the only things left to make it resemble a gas buggy and they were much the worse for the encounter.

Sept 30, 1926 Shakopee Arus-Tribune Al Nord, aged 60, proprietor of a soft drink parlor at Chaska, was killed last Friday evening when he was struck by an M&St.L. train at Carver.

Nov 11, 1926 Hennepin Co. Review (E.P. Col) Al Gould, age 68, was killed Nov. 2nd, while crossing the M&St.L. tracks at Eden Prairie. he was driving a team. The through passenger train struck the wagon he was riding on and he was killed instantly. The body was taken to the Hennepin Co. morgue.

Apr 12, 1928 Hennepin Co. Review Last Fridays storm precipitated a near tragedy in our locality, When the M&St.L. local train met up with a ice covered crossing near the depot, at about 6 o'clock in the evening. The engine and tender and the front of the baggage car jumped the track, ran for 200 feet and nearly tipped over, sinking about 3 feet on one side. No one was injured, fortunately, and the passengers were put on another train to be taken to their destinations. A "Wrecker" came out from Mpls. and a crew worked till 5:00 o'clock the next morning before the train was got back onto the tracks again.

Feb 28, 1929 Hennepin Co. Review (E.P. Col) While driving a group of the boys home after a basket ball tournament, Prof. Mitchell's car was stalled in the snow at Miroc railroad station and was struck by a train and completely demolished. No one was hurt.

Feb 28, 1929 Shakopee Argus-Tribune Last Thursday evening after the basketball game between Carver and Eden Prairie at Eden Prairie, Mr. Mitchell, principal of the local high school, took the different members of the team to their respective homes around the countryside. He had just taken a boy home to Chanhassen and was taking Orville Dorn, the last boy, to his home on Riley's lake, when driving up over the M&St.L. R.R. crossing near the lake, the back wheels of the car sunk along the tracks and the machine refused to move. It was close to the time when the 10:20 passenger train was due through there and both Mr. Mitchell and Orville Dorn used every effort to extricate the wheels from the heavily packed snow bank. At last the train was in sight and moving rapidly toward them. Orville ran down the track in the direction of the train and flagged it. The engineer saw him and tried to stop quickly but it was too late, as they were already just a few yards from the car and before he could bring the engine to a stop, Mr. Mitchell's Chrysler car was completely wrecked. Both he and Orville feel fortunate that they escaped with their lives and they had plenty of time to get out of the car. The car was covered with insurance so Mr. Mitchell is suffering no financial loss but both he and Orville declare they were not a little bit nervous for a short while and do not care to go through the experiences again.

Nov 21, 1929 Hennepin Co. Review (E.P. Col) Mrs. Wm. Moran had the misfortune of killing her engine on the Eden Prairie railroad crossing Sunday morning and was struck by a train. The car was badly damaged but Mrs. Moran jumped and was unhurt.

Aug 21, 1930 Hennepin Co. Review (E.P. Col) Nine stacks of oats belonging to Sheldon Douglas were accidentally burned Sunday from sparks from a passing freight train.

May 28, 1931 Hennepin Co. Review Mike Ryan, a foreman on the M&St.L. R.R., suffered a fractured right leg Saturday when a heavy iron bar fell on him in the Eden Prairie yards. His injuries were treated at the blake clinic.

Aug 6, 1931 Hennepin Co. Review Two new 400 horsepower gas-electric cars were recently put into use on the Watertown line through Hopkins by the M&St.L. R.R. Co. on day trains No.'s 13 and 14. The two cars have a 15 foot space for U.S. mail and 45 foot space for express and baggage. A third 400 horsepower car with 30 foot U.S. mail and 30 foot express and baggage space, will be operated on trains 11 and 12 between Mpls. and Lake Minnetonka points and New Ulm. One car, with 300 horsepower engine, 15 foot U.S. mail space, 22 express and baggage space and seating capacity for 32 passengers, will be used on the line between Spencer, Fort Dodge and Des Moines, according to John Dolan, Hopkins agent for the company. Seven of the gas-electric cars have been operated by the railroad during the past year, he said. Each car is 70 feet long, is all steel, electric lighted, has a hot water heating plant and has sufficient power to handle extra baggage cars and coaches. In September, 1930, the company adopted the black and white stripe on the head end as an additional protection for motorists at grade crossings, which makes the trains more visible under all weather conditions, Mr. Dolan pointed out.

May 5, 1932 Hennepin Co. Review Funeral services for George Schmidt, 24 year old, who was killed by a train on the M&St.L. R.R. tracks at Miroc crossing, Eden Prairie, Friday evening, were conducted at 9:00 a.m. from the Catholic church at Chanhassen. Rev. Father Kurtzer officiated at the last rites and burial was in St. Hubert's cemetery. Schmidt's body was discovered at 10:15 a.m., Saturday by the engineer of a passing freight train and it believed the young man was killed by a gas-electric passenger train which passed through Eden Prairie at 10:00 p.m. Friday. The accident occurred south of Eden Prairie station, one half mile from Schmidt's home. Schmidt was born in Eden Prairie, Jan. 29, 1906 and spent his life residing with his parents on their farm. Survivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Schmidt, two sisters, Susan of Mpls. and Sophronia of Portland, Oregon; and four brothers, Mathew and Nick at home, Robert of St. Paul and Frank of Mpls. (Ed: Their name is Smith, not Schmidt.)

May 7, 1932 Shakopee Argus-Tribune Believed to have been struck by a gas-electric on the M&St.L. R.R. near Miroc, George Smith, 26, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith, was killed early Friday night. The train crew of a freight passing along the same route at 10:15 discovered the body and reported the accident to Harold Miller, deputy-constable at Eden Prairie. George Smith, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith was born in Eden Prairie, January 29, 1906, one of 13 children born to that union. He never married and spent his entire life residing with his parents on a farm near here. He attended Gould school where he made many friends and many fine associations. (Goes on and tells who survivors are, same as Hennepin Co. Review article.)

Oct 10, 1935 Hennepin Co. Review Excelsior residents witnessed a train wreck Saturday when a split rail on the trestle near the amusement park sent 5 freight cars off the rails. The main line of the M&St.L. road was tied up for five hours while crews righted the wrecked cars and repaired the track. After leaving the track the cars hung precariously over St. Alban's bay channel, held only by the couplings between the cars. Rails were twisted and the (My Comment: The article ends like this and I couldn't find the rest of it.)

Apr 16, 1936 Shakopee Argus-Tribune Interstate Commerce Commission proposes abandoning portions of the M&St.L. R.R. and parceling out the rest.

Aug 19, 1937 Shakopee Argus-Tribune (E.P. Col) The train crew reported to Constable Harold Miller early Wednesday of two men on the railroad tracks near Miller's store. One man was found dead and the other taken to the Mpls. general hospital, badly injured. The two men were supposedly fighting in a box car of the moving train.

Nov 4, 1937 Hennepin Co. Review Big Article: Hopkins and other communities trying to Save M&St.L. R.R. Article in 18 years ago column: Six cars of cement were smashed up west of Eden Prairie on the St. Louis road Wednesday morning when the train left the rails. No one was injured but more than 100 feet of rail was torn up.

July 21, 1938 Shakopee Argus-Tribune Article about M&St.L. being saved, Governor of state involved.

Oct 6, 1938 Shakopee Argus-Tribune (E.P. Col) The Miller boys bought the lumber in the Eden Prairie water tower to use on there farm.

Aug 21, 1941 Shakopee Argus-Tribune An unconscious man, about 50 years old, found lying along the right-of-way of the M&St.L. R.R., a half mile east of Riley's Lake, Friday morning, was brought to St. Francis hospital here where he was identified as Robert B. Dooner, a possible resident of Mpls. Examination disclosed a skull fracture and brain hemorrhage. How he was injured was not definitely determined but it is believed he had either fallen from a moving train or had been struck by a train as he walked along the track. A train crew noticing the injured man, reported their discovery to the Mpls. dispatcher who sent an investigator to the scene. A Shakopee doctor and ambulance were summoned and the victim was removed to the hospital. Dooner had not regained consciousness Wednesday.

Nov 6, 1941 Shakopee Argus-Tribune 25 years ago: The M&St.L. R.R. is going to build a new bridge at Carver. (My Comment: the Nov. 3, 1916 of the Scott Co. Argus is missing.)

Jan 15, 1942 Shakopee Argus-Tribune A member of the freight crew was killed and two others were reported injured in a collision of a passenger and a freight train on the M&St.L. R.R. south of Helena, in Scott Co., at 3:30 a.m., Friday The dead man was Vernon Riggs Koplin, 55, Mpls., conductor on the freight. According to Dr. H.W. Reiter, coroner, Riggs perished in the blaze that destroyed the caboose which burst into flames. Both trains, Dr. Reiter said, were in motion and traveling south. The freight was followed by a special passenger train carrying officials of the rail company. The engine of the passenger train was disabled in the crash and the caboose and freight car just ahead of it were derailed.

Jan 15, 1942 Hennepin Co. Review A wrecked special of the M&St.L. R.R. was towed backward into Mpls. Friday morning following its crackup with a freight train 5 miles south of Jordan earlier in the day. Only fatality was Vernon R. Koplin, 50, a brakeman riding in the caboose of the freight which was struck. M.F. Fulton, fireman on the special was injured when he jumped from his engine cab. Officials of the railroad, including the Pres., I.C. Sprauge, were not injured.

Oct 1, 1942 Shakopee Argus-Tribune (E.P. Col) Monday forenoon, about 10 o'clock the town truck and grader were hit at the Miroc crossing by an oncoming train from Eden Prairie. William Werner, driver of the truck and Rinault Dorn, grader man, were uninjured but both truck and grader were taken to the garage for repairs.

Feb 15, 1945 Hennepin Co. Review Struck by a west-bound M&St.L. train as he was walking home from work Thursday evening. Joseph Aubrecht of Rt.2 was instantly killed. The tragedy occurred shortly before 10 p.m. two miles west of Hopkins, at a point where the railroad track crosses Mud Lake near the Aubrecht home. Mrs. Aubrecht was expecting her husband to arrive home at any moment. when she heard the train stop, she left the house and walked to the tracks. Members of the crew notified the sheriff's office and several deputies reported on the scene. The deputies recovered Mr. Aubrecht's body at the foot of a steep embankment and informed Mrs. Aubrecht of her husband's death. (Goes on to give bio and survivors)

Dec 27, 1945 Hennepin Co. Review Big article: M&St.L buys 15 acres of old Red Wing Sewer Pipe Co. site.

Jan 2, 1947 Hennepin Co. Review George Robert Specht, 21, of 4829 Maple Rd., Edina, a medical student at the U. of Minnesota was killed in Eden Prairie early Sunday morning when the car he was driving slid into a train at the M&St.L. R.R. tracks and Co. #4. The student died of a crushed chest according to the coroners report. Two passengers in Specht's car suffered only slight injury. according to George Nelson, 21, 4807 Sunnyside Rd., Edina, no one in the car saw the train until it had passed. Mr. Specht applied the brakes, but the automobile skidded into one of the freight cars, the 7th from the end on a 64 car train. The other passenger was Miss. Dorothy Nugent, 1107 W. 53rd St., Mpls. The young student was an army veteran and had served as a surgical technician with the infantry. He had two awards of the Purple heart and held the Bronze star with one oak leaf cluster. Survivors are his mother, Lt. Casimira Specht, army nurse corps and a brother, Donald. Services were Tuesday, 12 o'clock noon. Interment was at Fort Snelling National cemetery.

July 24, 1947 Shakopee Argus-Tribune Traffic on the M&St.L. R.R. in this area was halted for nearly 16 hours Monday as a result of a wreck on the line at Helena, south of Jordan. In the mishap, in which there were no casualties, a diesel powered 35 car southbound freight plowed into the rear end of another freight, which had been slowed down as a result of a hot box on one of the car trucks, exploded the caboose into splinters, sent two units of the diesel engine, two box cars and a tank car tumbling down a 30 foot embankment into Sand creek, tore up 300 feet of train line and side track and left 3 other box cars hanging precariously on the soft shoulders of the right-of-way. Rail authorities who, with a crew of more than 60 members of a repair gang worked throughout the day and night to repair the track and clear the wreckage, said that fortunately there were no crewmen in the caboose when the locomotive crashed into it. Two trainmen were waiting to hop aboard the end car as it passed but ran for safety when they saw the collision was imminent. Three enginemen riding in the big yellow diesel were less fortunate, authorities said. They stayed with the locomotive and were tossed and tumbled about in the destructive turmoil that followed. One of the men, it was learned, submerged in the creek into one section of the diesel rolled, crawled out, removed his drenched clothing and hung them up to dry. The other, jostled and shaken emerged from the wreckage unhurt. According to the farmers at work in their nearby fields and barn yards, when the wrecked occurred, they were startled at 7:30 a.m. by the thundering, crushing sound that burst around upon the stillness of the morning. The neighborhood dropped whatever it was at and men, women and children raced in the direction of the din. Some reached the scene in time to see the engine crewmen freeing themselves. The lead section and the middle unit of the diesel went down the west side of the steep bank and the rear section went off the rails on the east side. All that was recognizable of the caboose was its trucks and the bright red splinters that once formed the framework. Smashed castings, twisted rails, the tie plates, spikes littered the area and an 8 foot depression was gouged into the rail bed. All this had to be cleared before the repair gang could go at the job of relaying the steel. When it became apparent that a massive crane would not be capable of moving a section of the derailed locomotive which blocked the track it was necessary to cut away a section of the nose with acetylene torches. All through the day and late into the night thousands of curious spectators flocked to the scene. Scott, Carver, Le Sueur, Hennepin and Ramsey county residents were among the throngs. Cars for blocks lined the narrow highway that inclined toward the railroad crossing far north of the wreck. There were babes in the arms of fathers and mothers who elbowed their way through the milling and excited crowds to seek a vantage point from where to get a better view of the destruction. Grimy, sweating workman pulled, tugged, lifted and pounded while others in authority pleaded with the weaving throng to "please stay back-these men must have room to work. "Undaunted by his crutches and frail little limbs a blond, bareheaded 9 year old polio victim picked his tortuous way over the crushed rock surface to join the cosmopolitan assemblage thatmoved about the scene Monday night. An improved telegraphers station kept the lines dispatcher informed of the progress while executives scanned the debris contemplating an investigation into the cause of the wreck. Actual removal of the derailed locomotive sections, it was learned, would await arrival of a crane owned by the Milwaukee R.R. That episode was scheduled to get under way Tuesday. Estimates of the loss and damage ran well into six figures, none authortive. Value of the diesel was said to approximate $300,000 but to what extent it was damaged could not be immediately determined. (My Comment: The guy forgot to tell us what the weather was like.)