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Viewing Album:  CStPM&O Steam Accident
 
By:Gary Everhart
Dates:6/1/1904 - 6/1/1904
Album Info:These rr accident photos were with a group of CMO steam photos in the purchase I made recently. No information was on the backs of them and the seller couldn't supply any information either. What I have pieced together is CMO locos #255, #307 amd #371 were involved in a collision. The newest engine in the group, #371, was built in 1903 so the accident was after that date and the spectator apparel would put it early in the 1900's. Since one of the coach cars had the C&NW lettering, this probably was somewhere in Minnesota or Wisconsin along the route from St Paul to Chicago that the CNW and CMO shared after CNW took control of CMO in 1882.
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Rescue CMO 4-6-0 #326 - Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Title:  Rescue CMO 4-6-0 #326 - Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Description:  Rescue steam engine #326 stands by the passenger car wreckage being viewed by a large crowd of spectators. #326 was a 1901 Schenectady built ten-wheeler. Note the flags denoting a special.
Photo Date:  9/1/1904  Upload Date: 6/15/2014 7:55:39 AM
Location:  Unknown, MN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Steam,Wreck,Passenger
Locomotives:  CMO 326(4-6-0)
Views:  460   Comments: 0
Wrecked CMO 4-4-0 -#255 - Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Title:  Wrecked CMO 4-4-0 -#255 - Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Description:  Lying on its side with one of the express baggage cars and surrounded by spectators is 1896 Schenectady built American-type locomotive #255. Date is approximate and no photographer listed.
Photo Date:  9/1/1904  Upload Date: 6/15/2014 7:54:09 AM
Location:  Unknown, MN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Steam,Wreck,Passenger
Locomotives:  CMO 255(4-4-0)
Views:  397   Comments: 1
Wrecked CMO 4-4-0 -#255 - Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Title:  Wrecked CMO 4-4-0 -#255 - Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Description:  Another view of wrecked #255 in the ditch alongside the tracks. Note the two gentlemen posing on top of the locomotive - must have been at least a day or two after the accident for it to be cool enough to do so. Date is approximate and no photographer listed.
Photo Date:  9/1/1904  Upload Date: 6/15/2014 7:54:26 AM
Location:  Unknown, MN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Steam,Wreck,Passenger
Locomotives:  CMO 255(4-4-0)
Views:  344   Comments: 1
Wrecked CMO 4-4-0 -#255 - Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Title:  Wrecked CMO 4-4-0 -#255 - Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Description:  A large number of spectators now pose on top of the overturned locomotive. Note the two figures even at the doors of the express baggage car.
Photo Date:  9/1/1904  Upload Date: 6/15/2014 7:54:36 AM
Location:  Unknown, MN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Steam,Wreck,Passenger
Locomotives:  CMO 255(4-4-0)
Views:  340   Comments: 2
Wrecked CMO 4-4-0 -#255 - Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Title:  Wrecked CMO 4-4-0 -#255 - Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Description:  Having been set back on the tracks and taken to a nearby location, two locomotive workers inspect the damage done to #255 with a lot of supervision by onlookers. Note the missing cab.
Photo Date:  9/1/1904  Upload Date: 6/15/2014 7:54:47 AM
Location:  Unknown, MN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Steam,Wreck,Passenger
Locomotives:  CMO 255(4-4-0)
Views:  356   Comments: 0
Wrecked CMO 4-4-0 -#255 - Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Title:  Wrecked CMO 4-4-0 -#255 - Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Description:  Even the ladies and children are there to see the accident site. Note the crane lifting the passenger car to the right. Date is approximate and no photographer was listed.
Photo Date:  9/1/1904  Upload Date: 6/15/2014 7:55:00 AM
Location:  Unknown, MN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Steam,Wreck,Passenger
Locomotives:  CMO 255(4-4-0)
Views:  379   Comments: 2
Wrecked CMO 4-6-0 #307 - Chicago, St Paul, Minnesota & Omaha
Title:  Wrecked CMO 4-6-0 #307 - Chicago, St Paul, Minnesota & Omaha
Description:  Although the loco appears derailed but otherwise unscathed , its tender is in the distance upside down next to the passenger cars it must have been pulling. The loco seems to provide an excellent spot for spectator poses! The date is approximate and no photographer was listed.
Photo Date:  9/1/1904  Upload Date: 6/15/2014 7:55:12 AM
Location:  Unknown, MN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Steam,Wreck,Passenger
Locomotives:  CMO 307(4-6-0)
Views:  469   Comments: 2
Wrecked tender of CMO 4-6-0 #307
Title:  Wrecked tender of CMO 4-6-0 #307
Description:  Two spectators sit while viewing the upside down tender for #307 and the wrecked passenger cars. The car bears the C&NW logo - possibly on a run from St Paul to Chicago that CMO and C&NW shared after the C&NW took control of CMO in 1882.
Photo Date:  9/1/1904  Upload Date: 6/15/2014 7:55:24 AM
Location:  Unknown, MN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Steam,Wreck,Passenger
Locomotives:  CMO 307(4-6-0)
Views:  343   Comments: 0
Wrecked CMO 4-6-2 #371 - Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Title:  Wrecked CMO 4-6-2 #371 - Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Description:  The other overturned loco in the accident appears to be CMO #371, the newest loco there having been built by Alco-Schenectady in 1903. This helps set the date of the accident to after 1903. No photographer was listed.
Photo Date:  9/1/1904  Upload Date: 6/15/2014 7:55:48 AM
Location:  Unknown, MN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Steam,Wreck,Passenger
Locomotives:  CMO 371(4-6-2)
Views:  399   Comments: 0
Wrecked Passenger Cars
Title:  Wrecked Passenger Cars
Description:  No identifyable markings can be seen on these cars but would appear to be either C&NW or CMO coaches involved in the accident. Date is approximate and no photographer was listed.
Photo Date:  9/1/1904  Upload Date: 6/15/2014 7:55:59 AM
Location:  Unknown, MN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Steam,Wreck,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  101   Comments: 1
Wrecked Passenger Cars
Title:  Wrecked Passenger Cars
Description:  No identifyable markings can be seen on these cars but would appear to be either C&NW or CMO coaches involved in the accident. Date is approximate and no photographer was listed.
Photo Date:  9/1/1904  Upload Date: 6/15/2014 7:56:08 AM
Location:  Unknown, MN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Steam,Wreck,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  126   Comments: 3

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