Show EXACT NUMBER or 01 VICTIMS MAY NEVER BE BESix KNOWN Six Bodies Recovered From Prom the Ruins of the Wrecked Pullman Oar Car Nebraska and Six Persons Were Injured DETAILS OF DURAND MICHIGAN DISASTER Engineer of the Second Section of the Boston Montreal Express Probably to Blamo Blama for the Awful Catastrophe RIGID INQUIRY PROMISED AuBr 26 AIth the Dl J clearing awu today tOda of ef the lime ruins ruin of ot the n wrecked and burned Jull luH I man Inan sleeping Bleeping car ear Nebraska pro probably I ably abl has bu all aU hope hoies of ot de dc the actual number of Hi en lout lost lute last night when the rear sec lieI ec of the A d t Montreal ix Ex I Express press preliM from Chicago crashed Into loto the 11 forward section of a Grand d Trunk Crunk train three miles mile ml lew east of this I Estimates E Of ot the number of the dead led I vary ar from eight or n a dozen to possibly twenty Charles Spencer of Rattle Battle Creek en elt engineer 1 gincer on No m o 4 I In is said gald to hue hate bees been bee badly Injured but hU his name does doe not Rut appear on the list given out by Ii b the railroad official One report was that twenty pa a agers u gore gent had b been en in the Nebraska at Chicago and that eight nu nio i were taken on as the train I 1 eastward Milt ward but the car porter said Bald Ilk tiu i were only eighteen persons abU it lr the oar when the wreck e curre t if I Ithe ithe the number on board WM was eighteen t l six injured passengers passenger taken today toda y Flint and Durand and the time jl x bodies recovered would tr f r twelve leaving six persons to be counted for forThe Time The forward section sac t Ion u hid bich known as No 14 had of an accident to the air brakes a i it 11 i Engineer Mitchell had bad crawled craw Led und uni r his engine to locate lote the MIt Mu ells eUs head was terribly crushed cru v I u it I his bin engine WAS w Jolted forward t b by shook shock if f collision The locomotive of ot th t t e Md ed tion known ewa as an No Ho 4 J wed ha bai haway bait way ay through the rear r r sleeper of ot Ii forward train A an aM the tile I tl firebox box set fire fir to the Pullman ear cai caio Xo o Chance of ot Escape The passengers p a engers in tile rear t thad be t t i thad had bad not Dot the slightest t chance to a I and those tho e not killed a the I he 1 forged through the sleeper M n f burned to ro death lIth Halt Half a dozen pact I gers however serious seriously injured wr WH rescued from the forward i b rth The body of James McBean Mc an hap ilaF uc lit been identified but bat he be is known j i have been in the wreck and the Wol t n nan an and child who have not nt ben iden id fled tied are believed to be mother and andas andas n nas as the little one was found fouad in tt tI womans arms arm A black blackened en d watch diamond studded and a locke bearing aring b the initials H 8 Ii L tr found In the search for dews clews to tv th tivi identity of the burned corpses II The cause of the wreck is ie a Ii nys tery and an inquest t will be held Engineer Spencer of the second ec oX tion of ot the train said Hid today that he ht h wai 3 I almost almo t on top of ot the forward i l I when he heard the torpedo signal g a there was wu a train standing on the ira A t tahe ahead ahe d of ot him An exploded torp i iwas was found today fifty rail lengths fr fn the scene of ot the collision coUl lon and aDd AsSIst AsSIstant ant Superintendent Ehrke of the GraiM Gra i Trunk railroad said aId that the tt 1 r section could have been beeR stopped in m 1 feet teet Brakeman Waved lied Light Brakeman G 0 Graham of the fur for furar A a Iii j jS section S today asserted that he ran ba h a nearly a mile with the torpedo and an that tha he waved a red light to stop atop the r coming train Graham also I 1 Engineer Spencer of the second tr tra t n that the rear lights of the forward don tion were not burning Tilt This evo nill Graham could not be located by ta the e railroad officials The wreck was characterised by In bythe Inthe a athe the gruesome scenes 8 attending a rat ra road disaster at midnight Farmer who ran from their hom homes a to assist tu l 1 the work of rescue were held back bak 1 the flames and were compelled to t stand helpless witnesses of ot the roa Ioa ing lug of ot a human body which burned and fell to pieces before their eyes eye Superintendent s say that the assertion that there un Wr unjust just nineteen passengers on t wrecked car is berne borne out oat by the I chart of Pullman I and the list given giveR out at Chicago a o iv tv h Continued on OB Page Two Tw I I I I NUMBER OF VICTIMS MAY NEVER BE KNOWN I Continued From Page lu e One H O G Elliott first assistant latant general passenger agent of the Grand Trunk The uninjured passengers according to Superintendent Ehrke were checked up when the train started eastward after arter the wreck Following is a detailed list of the passengers as given out by tile the railroad officials The Dead James Chicago Mrs Alma Woodward en route Bel Belfield Belfield field K N D to Port Huron Mich Nurse accompanying Mrs Woodward from tr m St Johns hospital Halifax Mrs Squires residence unknown Squires ld eon son of or Mrs rs Squires a Mrs MIS E M I Gilpin Chicago The Injured Mrs Leslie La Vista Ont Onto probably meant for 74 years old fractured right legand left len hip at Flint hospital Albert B Watts Edmonton Alberta not seriously burned at Flint Mrs F II H McBean Chicago mother of James McBean fra fractured right leg Mrs S A Chicago fractured right arm and internal injuries Clinton A Davis Montreal seriously Injured Passengers who escaped injury were Jeffries Racine Dodd Minneapolis Parley Parle Minneapolis Man in lower six sis name unknown Unidentified man boarded train at South Bend and left lert at Flirt Flint Unidentified woman In lower seven Two unidentified men in upper seven George E K Nelson NAlson fireman of ot the sec second second second ond train probably was fatally scalded and Bert Mitchell engineer orthe for forward forward forward ward train had its head So terribly t crushed that he may ml die |