Show horrible catastrophe is caused by the fa lure of the crew of a fre train to obey order salem mich thirty one people are dead and more than evenly injured many of thena aly as the result ot a head on collision 1 this village and clymo th when a pere marquette excursion train bound from lonia to detroit crashed into a west bound freight in a cut located at a sharp curve of the pere marquette railroad about a mile east ol 01 salem the passenger train ot eleven cars carrying the pere marquette shop employed emp loyes of lonia and their families to the michigan metropolis for their annual excursion was running at high speed probably fifty miles an hour down a steep grade it struck the lighter locomotive of the freight train with such terrible force as to turn the freight engine completely around responsibility Is put square upon the crew of tie freight train by boffl bials of the road one of those who arrived at the scene of the wreck soon after the accident secured from the crew of the freight the orders un der which it was lunning and which clearly showed the position of the passenger excursion train and that the freight had encroached upon the other train s running time |