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The Morning Telegram
Sheboygan, WI
Wednesday, 21 September, 1887

         KILLED BY CARELESSNESS
         
         A Fatal Accident Upon the Milwaukee and
           Northern Road
           
         Conductor DONNELLY Looses (sic) His Life
          Through the Culpable Negligence of 
            Brakeman LLOYD.
            
         Special to the Telegram.
         
         Clinton, Sept. 20., 1:30 p.m.. - The Milwaukee & Northern
       freight train ran off the track early this afternoon ditch-
       ing twenty-five cars. Seven burned up, Conductor DONNELLY
       killed. Brakeman badly hurt.
       
         Later..
         Clinton, Wis., Sept. 20. - A horrible accident occurred
       this morning between 12 and 1 o'clock, a few rods south of
       the Hayton depot, resulting in the wrecking of the train
       and death of Conductor JAMES DONNELLY. No. 8, south bound
       freight had been switching on the side-track at Hayton, and
       after finishing its work it pulled back out the main line
       about a mile, so as to get a good start to make the steep
       grade, sending brakeman J. LLOYD ahead to throw the switch
       onto the main track and lock it. Instead of doing this, he
       locked the switch on the side-track, leaving the main track
       open, thereby derailing and wrecking the larger portion of
       the train. Conductor DONNELLY was on the engine, together
       with the engineer and fireman, when the train jumped the
       track. They all jumped from the engine, the fireman and
       DONNELLY landing in a swampy piece of ground, from which he
       was trying to extricate himself, when a car fell and buried
       him beneath it. No one else was hurt except the brakeman,
       who was pulled from under the wreck with several ribs bro-
       ken. 
         Excitement ran so high that the lynching of LLOYD was
       talked of, and he was given but twenty minutes to get out
       of the country, of which he took advantage, as he has not
       been seen since.
         The car under which DONNELLY was buried was loaded with
       lime, and soon after striking the water it caught fire and
       a large part of the wreckage was soon in flames. Not being
       able to arouse anyone in Hayton, a brakeman was compelled
       to walk some three miles to this city for assistance. The
       fire department was taken to the scene this morning by a
       wrecking train, wich subdued the flames about noon without
       finding any trace of DONNELLY'S body. The supposition is
       that the body was entirely consumed by the lime.
       
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The Stoughton Courier
Friday, 23 September, 1887

         Chilton, Wis., Sept. 21. - The body of Conductor
       JAMES DONNELY, who was killed in the Milwaukee and
       Northern railroad wreck at Hayton, Monday night,
       was found this morning. It will be taken to F*irbey,
       Ill., to-day for burial. The brakeman who is alleged
       to have caused the accident has fled and and has not
       yet been heard of.
       
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