Show FOUR SCORE PEOPLE I KILLED IN COLLISION Two Passenger Trains Come COlne Together at V Full Ful Speed Near Seneca Mich Cause Of 01 Accident Misreading of Orders Detroit Detroi Mich Nov ov pI m n nor cor lulO on oil tho ouo going west the thU other wiot iut mot inot In n a I frightful collision going at ul moat lost full ful speed onu east cast ot oe Hen Ben tea oca Mich a 0 eleven miles mies west of ot Adrian AdrJan shortly after nelor 7 last night Doth Both trains wrecked In tn tho dreadful Impact entailing a U tre tze lOBs ot of life estimated from SO SOto 6 to 10 IV Tho ho lint Hot I t of or Injured h wilt wi probably I vaal 12 Tho rho westbound train known as ns o 13 and und was vas a Lt regular which bo boo boffles pities Ita Us Is regular coaches had coaches tilted filled fled with wih Italian Immigrants going west est from Now NeY York 1011 Tho east eust eastbound bound boun traIn ruin was vas known UH as iK No Ho 4 tho the Continental limited It 1 was vas a vest led train consisting con S of ot a n baggage cur car combination coach and orI CAUSE OF Ci 01 THi Tho The cause causa caUle of ot the reek freck was WIS a u mis of ot orders by l b Engineer Strong lit pt tho lie Continental limited Tho Thi he order It I to ts Pass UIS at Ceneca but It to read rea Baud Crock The Tho conductor of the train din dI l not hot know that tho the engineer had hal mis misunderstood mil understood tho the order and Ind supposed that train was W going on a n siding Find tar ins that tha tho thu train wai wal running rapidly conductor put on tho the air brakes himself but It was WI too lato late Tho The two tso trains crashed together nil and tho the cars carson on ml tho thu westbound train were crumpled up lip In a 0 heap of ot ruins uIna Engineer Strong stated In an nn Inter Interview IntervIew view low to an nn Associated Press reporter that his hla order directed him to pass trains Nos NOB 13 and 3 i the tho latter closely t No 13 IS from Detroit at Sand Hand SaOI Creek Crool Strong said H STATEMENT I l saw aw tho tho liw headlight of ot No ia four or tle lo miles mies before tho the collision oc occurred purtell but I supposed tho the train was wan at Sand Hand Sall Creek waiting for forus fortis us to pass Tho The glare oC of tho the powerful electric cl UJo headlight made It Impossible to toe ue el e the exact location of the other train lily y fireman and I both jumped from the tM right hand hanl gangway Strong and tho the fireman both hurled ZOO SOO fc fet t but although scratched put but ut and an I terribly Jarred they thoy were wet not Injured The Tho Immigrants and other othor pas cn nera on train No 13 1 were crushed be ho between tween tho the splintered cars cat If Jt f any nl an es escaped raped copel without Injury It I will bo be consid considered ered cred a 1 miracle CATCHES FIE FIEo To o add nil to the horror tho the wreckage caught aught lire Instantly and In a u short time lime tho the bodies of O f the tho dead anti and I those pt pf tho the Injured who were pinned doyn down were vero being burned The scene which followed was wal heart heartrending heartrending rending In tho extreme Tho The where Jha he wreck occurred was wa In the open country with but one ono farmhouse near nearly t ly 7 and facilities for Cor aiding tho the In Injured were wera extremely Inadequate As Al ts soon toon as ns the tho news of tho the 1 1 readied Supt Burns Dura hero a relief train trin was sva as dispatched to the tho scene with wih a 0 aV V score core or more inure mire of at surgeons Bun on hand r Farmers from nearby and those who escaped from front the t o wreck alive made madu I heroic efforts to rescue tho tim less fortu tortu fortunate j nate nate The rho condition of the wreck wreak was ouch that In the darkness It I was waa Im Impossible possible to render Immediate aid alI Immediately after atter the collision six rave pars of ot the westbound train crowded I wIth Immigrants burst Into flames fames Tho The unfortunates fought taught madly In their at nt attempt empt tempt to crawl out of ot doors and an win lows down cowl thus hindering each other othor so that tho the bulk of them were unable to escape escalO The rue ho Immigrant train trin ns as made up of nine cars CIS behind two engines Six of these the o cars were weta Jammed together Very Vcr coon the tho wreckage began burning fiercely and those In the cars car were roasted to death There Thore vereno means at nt hand wih with which to light fight the lire fire fre nd the tho agonized shrieks of or tho the poor unfortunates were A VERITABLE HELL EI OF FIRE FIE It I was a n veritable hell hel of ot fire fre said Victor C of New Now YorK who Mho 10 escaped With slight Injuries People who came hurrying hurring to thu thuS S ocene from farmhouses In that local locality localIty ity Iy stood about tho the wreckage hopeless Jy y and had their hands to their earN cam enl to shut out the he frightful screams and turned their eyes oyes away because It I was wasI I more mor than they could bear V Tho rho scene Immediately surrounding L the lr wreck wieck was terrible In the semi semidarkness darkness Illuminated only by tho the glare from rom the Hie lire fre of ot the tho wreckage men mn about over corpses which fell fel eli from Irom r m tho the ruins and which after the tho Mines ines had Iad died lied out were hauled from the debris There horo they lay along alone the thu th thur r some covered by blankets had hlll been brought brou ht by farmers who hart had toled Ilo ed to the scene ceno from the tha surround surrounding ing country countr People CRITIC came hurrying from tram tho the nearby l arby villages raes nod and nd these the o With wih tho the help holp of oC those tho e who escaped on al train No 4 did what they could I The Tho who were vere lucky enough to get out alive from tho the lascono ono oils or two Immigrant cars car were Avero un unI I uble lo to speak English h and could give alv alvn no n Idea apparently of the number or ot l lOile ople that were In each ench car The Tie con of at this train could not be lYe b found F for or this reason the tho th estimate of tho the num her br of dead must bo be considered purely fis ILl railroad doctors anu aM others olber agreeing that the tie number must V V approximate 10 When Wh n tho the relief trains arrived ns as R many of at tho the Injured ns as could be car carried ried wire were taken to tl t Ohio Peru Per Ini and to the hospitals at Adrian Partial and meager list of ot dead den and Is ns as n TIm TIlE DEAD BRAD William IX D I Down Ave Detroit fireman freman No 13 Cal Baldorf Ashley Ashl fireman treman No 13 James Brown Drown porter Detroit vJ Oeo leo N Youmans l City Job JOl of Witchell Sons Co Detroit Vida Deens TUP erle Ont Ont Dominica burned to in cars carsE I E 1 N Buela Thiela Iuela Pontiac of and her ber bel child Carlo Trian t 1 I Hermann l 48 8 Dearborn street Chicago Unknown aged woman her ber leather eyeglass case cao ca ngel o marked with a n Philadel Philadelphia phia firm Many Inny bodies bodleR are oro burned beyond any hope of ot Identification Many others other I I are aro entirely TIlE I Robert nobert Parks engineer No 13 left loft log lul broken H ii C a Whitney of ot Grand P It Detroit head crushed Mary Detroit Ham J Work Vork url engineer No 13 badly scalded d leg I g broken Mariana arina fatally Injured by chock thock of collision 5 Nicholas Jola county New NewYork NewYork York nose noo broken and 1111 head heal Injured T B E Joyce Chicago back wrenched Lloyd Kempton N D I Ic anlo Antonio Forne lore nith smashed may die I Giocomo Jiocomo Internal muy amy dID I Injured Pletto Pietro slightly slightly sl Injurer Injure slightly Injured InJuN Carlo slightly Injured Lucy slightly Injured Domenco bud bul head wound F 11 1 W Pierce Chester Chestor Mont slightly Injured Johanna I Lobita scalp wounds Frank Baltimore Md rib broken injured Sala norka Ills 11 slightly sl ht Shoemaker Adrian hip Victor Cohen Brooklyn homo home St at StPaul Paul slightly hip Detroit Detroi hack back and George F 1 White New NoW York serious M Id Thomas Creation Creahan Buffalo log leg In Injured Injured Winifred Croatian Creahan Batavia slightly D Logansport stomach Mrs Mra M String Mich spine and skull IJ JJ E J I Smith Detroit Detroi leg bruised Anna Anua Mildia Lake City Nevada scratched slightly Iy San Francisco head hoad cut Santine San Antonio Texas cut cuts F San Son Fran Francisco FrancIsco cisco chest George Georgo G 0 Elliott South Routh Maine Maino minor rain Alatka leg eg bruised Walter Mo bruised hands M t E and Gilien Gien body borlY N H IL I cut In 8 13 I F Carroll Carrol Tonawanda N Y T bad badly badly ly Iy bruised l I Colon slightly I Mrs Jose Joso Jaksa Cola Cob slightly ty Platt Denver Colo Cob ly Anna Anno Denver Colo Cob In Injured Injured jurell In head hend Antonio face faco and III head honl cut Antonio head bend and amI face Twain Gales Cales head hend and face taco cut I James W Taylor Talor Bronson Mich taco faco and head cut I Domenio face faco and head hed I cut Aton and wife Jfe face tace and anu anI heads cut face and head hoa cut Cuta G a faca ace and head cut Luco Luce face and head hend cut Carlo taco face and head cut cutA cutA cutA A W Ormond baggage man Do troit arm arl bruised GeOrge Georgo a orso Detroit slightly Victor Greenbaum New Nw N w York slightly ty V A L ti Hart Detroit taco faco John Detroit Detroi bruised slight oUght slightly ly Iy co head anti and taco faco cut cuta G a W Sweeney Detroit bruised about head hend and ali legs George Georgo Strong engineer left leg sprained and left shoulder hurt Miss Mabel Thompson Thom son Detroit slightly sl Injured E 1 L Ardelle Ardele porter train No 4 slightly E i C CV Smith Detroit leg Its le bruised Carman Pear rear Italian boy slightly bruised I Patrick Pal rick Flannery Hastings Minn MIan face cut teeth knocked out Mary Williams Sioux City Iowa cut about head Otto Oto Harp hare lare Detroit Detri arra ar broken and ankle sprained John Detroit lt train boy face cut Miss Jessie Wiggins Detroit glass driven Into side G U H 1 1 Meade Clear Cicar Lake Lak Iowa mouth painfully cut nil teeth knocked loo loose e E Mrs r O G H 1 Meade Monde ni severe cut In head MANY SAD EPISODES At the tho Union In this city dur during durIng durIn ing In the night there thero were sad ead epi nodes The officials of at tho the road are besieged by relatives of or passengers known to havo have been on tho the wrecked trains One Ono little girl waited until 20 a n m for tor her slater sister Vida Degas of Ont and was wan then Informed that the sister was among the tho th dead Dead Dealt dead dead ho she shrieked fastening her bCe arms about the tho neck ot of tho the operator who had announced the tho I names while tears welled wele up In tn the tho I eyes eyen of the spectators Ipe Tho The grief of the child exhausted her so 80 that she sho had to be carried away 1 Job Witchell of the firm of at Witchell Sons Ron Co Ca of Detroit was Wa expected homo home on No 4 Ills His Us son non on wan at nt the depot to meet him At midnight a n dispatch came cume numbering Job Witchell el among the tie dead Tho The son BOH lon was In tho the waitIng room when the news nos was brok broken en The terrible reality was too much and he lie swooned tailing falling against a I ra radiator Ho Ito was wal assisted ted to his seat and remained In that attitude stunned by the tho calamity His father tather had hati teen been absent at nt Dallas Dalian Texas for tor a n few te days and anil and had Md just juat telegraphed his Intention to return on the thA train The relief of ot those thOA whose friends and all relatives were gradually announced 10 o 0 obe be still living was as In strong g contrast contra t tto to the sadness of ot mourners mourn r AWAITING TIDINGS It I was Wn a n large crowd that stoOd flood about anxiously awaiting tidings until long after atar sunrise Outside ambulances from rom romal all al the tle city hospitals waited walId for tor any of at the Injured who vho might be bo brought to the city A special relief relie train ar nt arrived rived from Adrian nt at 6 a m bringing five dead bodies bodie four tour men and ono one woman oman and nd n a stretcher full ful of ot burned and blackened pieces of ot dead humanity t train from was u n drover over Ono One of at tho men City who had bud wal 1100 1400 money Lint Ild Linta His name namo a n gold gohl on out Oi his person Js la is II not Hot It known STRONG No 0 U arrived at nt tho the Union nation s hours lato late it I Ulion laton broUght carried carrle no dead doad or Injured but Engineer 10 Strong anti three uninjured of oC No 4 Strong Stron reiterated eu hU Iia lal statements previously made to the tho effect that hl telegraphic order read to pass at Band hit Creek anti and ho he salt said that It No laB 13 order wan wa to meet No 4 nt at All Mi tho the but two were smashed Al or burned burel Of the eight ul ht on fl No 4 only one was destroyed The latter later Wn a New NewYork NeWYork York Central day ulay roach conch Fifteen 1 to tu twenty of or that passengers are arc deMo dead Two died after being taken out None Nono of at led the tho occupants of the theother th theother other couches of oC the tho eastbound train vere killed Fully sixty of oC No lBs ISs passengers o believed to tl bo be lead dead I occupant of both bolh trains was badly shaken shocked and bruised The rho few passengers who reached Detroit were still In n a nervous ant and excited state tato and declined to speak for tor publication In the tho early carlY morning hour WRECKAGE TRACK CLEARED FROM 1 Detroit Mich Nov Nay 28 No develop developments dove lop ments mouta since inco daylight dawned upon the hue horrid scene ICIno of wr on tho the W Wn Vt bash basli railroad near Seneca havo hao hlo tended t to t or UI from t nIghts awful calamity Most of or tho the wreckage has litta hIs been cleared cl from tho the track It 1 continues to appear that the tho th number of ot dead doad do victims will wl reach from train 80 10 to lo and nd t more than the tho latter Inter noun num number her ber aro are suffering from Injuries Some of or the tho railroad assort that the tho dead deal will wil not exceed fifty ner but tho num number her ber of ot corpses and parts of human hUlan forms forma bf b being Ing collected seems to Indicate enlargement rather rathel than thai of last ta reports Considerable light W l slued shed on th cause cluse fur for the tho disaster by Iy the tho ciders which tho the conductor of No 13 showed as an ni his authority for lor proceeding past Hand Creek CIol r OF 01 fRAiN ORDERS Tho which was delivered to tho the train trin at rend ns lS follows Older Ulder No Jo 28 Trains Non Nos 21 and S SNo SNo No 4 engine will wl uncut moot No 13 nt at and No 3 engine at nt Sand Hand Creek Engines I No S 8 and Ild lii 1 will vIll wIl double No IS ISIt ISI 1 It I Is b understood un that tho the engineer mud and conductor of or No 4 received a n simi nimi similar lar mr order at nt Ohio but it Ie so these orders wore disregarded tho tue Issued If It develops that to I both trains were to tho the same end nd It ItIs I ItIs Is considered that the tha responsibility re for Cor forthe the tho U disaster rests r wholly with the en engineer and Ind conductor of oC the Continental limited Many of or tho lh burned bodies bodia cannot bo ho Identified Only six nix III bodies have havo actually actual b been en recovered A A maU I pile 10 of crisp black blackened blackened ened end that t lt covered two stretchers was rl all ni that could be found of the others SCENE OF 01 TIlE THE TI DISASTER The Tho scone of oC the tho holocaust r bleak and appearance thi 1 ii along alon both sides of the tho track for fir GOO COO feet car oar and such other oilier parts of the wrecked Hails nl na us I would not nt burn Mn l n Nos Non 8 O were W ro lying In the ditch ou au the right hand of ot the tho road |