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Show PROBERS IRK TO PLAGE BLAME FOR BiG WRECK Prosecuting Attorney Insists Upon Immediate Inquest to Collect Evidence DEATH LIST 38 BUT OTHERS ARE MISSING Other Bodies May Lie Crushed Under Wreckage of Huge Locomotive i l. i . i Mar. b t ilUam i oiiL'. . oglneer of the Michigan . nlrul train which was slru k I th.- Nni ork ( ntr:il Irnln m Porter, bad Bondeu oighi with a linsr of UveS tinlaj was exonerate. ex-onerate. I 1 offii laL- of the Michigan Mich-igan Central nai of all lesponsl- bility for the fatal ait lilent, ac- i ,.r. mi', to word u BBgrsphcd here from Nib's, Mich. PORTER. Ind.. March 1. Invest!- gations by Indiana state officials and officers of the Michigan Central and! New York Central railroads v.ero re-, (timed lodav to determine the cause of the wreck hero Sundav night fatal to 38 passengers on the eastboi'nd Michigan Central train. Members of the Michigan Central train crew were closeted all day es- terday with General Superintendent J. D McKee but no statement was ls-... ls-... jt MM Wits DfQI ES t Robert EX. Moore, deputy irosecut-ing irosecut-ing attorney of Porter county, declared he would start mandamus proceedings proceed-ings against Coroner 1 1 o lpcl unless un-less un Inquest was opened at once, to take official cstlinony. Both Towerman Joseph Cook and Operator Charles Whitehead instated that the New York Central train was :i-n the right of way. and that the .Michigan Central track signals were set to stop that train. 1.1 I fl US! I M l III US The coroner declared the death total would not exceed 3S. but Information Infor-mation from relatives and friends Showed half a dozen persons still unaccounted un-accounted for early today. It was believed posslblo other bodies might be found under the Michigan Central engine. ld( ntiflcatlon of two additional bodies today brought the official list of positive Identifications to thirty-five. thirty-five. The additions were Miss Dorothy Langln, of Cleveland. whosV mother's body was Identified last night, and Mrs Lillian Wagoner, of Battle Creek, Mich. Bodies of two women and one man remained unidentified. oo |