Show COLLIDED A FOG Disastrous Wreck on Michigan Michi-gan Railway SEVEN PEOPLE ARE KILLED Wine Others Injured One of Whom Will Die Express and a Passenger Train Crash Together While Running Run-ning at Pull Speed Of Twenty one Cars in Both Trains All but Six Were Piled Up and Engines Wore Literally Torn to Pieces List of the Victims Grand Rapids Mich Aug 15The northbound express which left this city at 105 a m and southbound pan scngor train duo here at C a m collided col-lided In the dense fog of the early morning at Plerson twentynine miles north of Grand Rapids Seven per soils were killed and nine severely injured in-jured one of whom cannot recoverS recover-S DEAD Letts Charles M Grand Rapids conductor northbound train No 6 GroetveUU Gilbert Grand Rapids engineer Fish William H Grand Rapids engineer en-gineer Woodhouse Edward D Grand RapIds Rap-Ids fireman Boyle Louis G Grand Rapids fireman fire-man Plerson C passenger oC Franklin ludLevan Levan Ralph son of Baggageman Levan of Grand Rapids who was In the car with his father FATALLY INJURED Blossom Mark Grand Rapids newsagent news-agent base of skull fractured INJURED Dennis H A Grand Rapids passenger passen-ger cut on head legs jammed left shoulder hurt Graves William M Grand Rapids colored waiter compound fracture of right arm and badly cut Ford C M Grand Rapids colored porter Injured about legs and chest Powers David C Grand Raplds baggageman scalp wound throat cut contusions on limbs both eyes closed Porlff Frank Traverse City trainman train-man head badly cut Barnes William Grand Rapids din Ingcar conductor left side of chest hurt head cut Taylor Harvey Grand Rapids colored col-ored waiter both hands lacerated arms cut Hartsaw W O passenger badly hurt about face and chest When the trains met day was just dawning and the fog was so thick that the engineers could not see more than 100 vnrds ahead DUE TO OPERATORS ERROR According to the railway ofllcluls the collision was the fault of Operator Wells stationed at Mill Creek four miles north of this city The trains usually meet at Sand Lake two miles south of Plerson An order was issued that they meet at Woodstock four miles north of Plerson Later Operator Wells was asked 1C the express had passed his station yet lle answered No He was then told to countermand former orders and give orders to No C to meet No 2 at Sand Lake Similar orders were given to No 2 Train No 6 never got the order having already passed Mill Creole They collided therefore while both were going at full speetl The forward cars were telescoped ENGINES TORN TO PIECES The big mall and diningcars on No 5 saved the Pullmans In the rear and the passenger coaches on No 2 were saved by three freight cars which happened hap-pened to be attached next the engine There were eleven cars on train No 2 and ten on No 5 Only six cars remained re-mained on the track and the engines were literally torn to pieces ERROR DISCOVERED TOO LATE When Operator Wells had discovered his error he tried to stop the express at Plerson but was half a minute too late The injured were brought to this city and taken to the various hospitals The dead were also brought here The railroad detectives caught thieves at work at the scene of the disaster |