Show asui salis IN A horrible horr catastrophe s caused the fa lure of the crew of a freight tra n to obey orders salem mich chii tv one people are dead and more than venty verity injured many of them seriously as the result lot of a headon head on collision between this village and plymouth wien w ien a pere marquette excursion train bound from lonia ionia to detroit crashed into a R west bound freight in a cut located at a sharp curve of the pere marquette railroad about a mile east of salem the passenger train of eleven cars carry earning ing the pere marquette shop employed emp loyes of lonia ionia and their families to the michigan metropolis for their annual excursion was running at high speed probably fifty miles an hour down a steep grade it struck the lighter locomotive of the freight train with mith such terrible force as to turn the freight engine completely around responsibility Is put square upon the crew of the freight train by boffl clair of the road one of those ho arrived at the scene of the wreck soon after the accident secured from the crew of the freight the orders un der which it was running and which clearly showed the position of the passenger excursion train and that the freight had encroached upon the other train s running time |