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Show DIE IN COLLISION. Three Persons Perish, Nine Others Injured in Wreck. DETROIT, Nov. 1C Three men were killed and nine or more passengers and trainmen Injured In a rear-end passenger train collision tonight av Elmdalo Junction, Junc-tion, twenty-two miles east of Grand Rapids on tho Pore Marquette railroad. Dead. UNKNOWN NEGRO, mangled beyond Identification probablv parlor cor porter. M, SIMMONS. New York. J. L. STREBITZKEY. Chicago. Both trains were eastbound, one for Detroit De-troit and the other for Saginaw. Thc Saginaw Sag-inaw train had preceded the Detroit train out of Grand Rapids by a few minutes and was standing on a Y at Elmsdalc Junction, where tho Saginaw division branches off from the Detroit division. Crashed Into Parlor Car. Through some mistake the switch was not turned behind thc Snglnaw train and tho Detroit train also ran upon the Y. the engine of the Detroit train crashing Into the rear of tho parlor car of thc Saginaw Sagi-naw train. Tho passengers killed and Injured were In the parlor car Of the latter, and the trainmen who were hurt were on thc Detroit train. |