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Show PLEASURE SEEKERS KILLED J IN A RAILROAD ACCIDENT M Horrible Catastrophe Is Caused by .H the Failure of the Crew of a jH Freight Train to Obey Orders, ' Salem, Mich. Thlrty-ono pcoplo aro JH dead and more than seventy Injured,' -jH pony of thom seriously, as tho result of a hoad-on collision botwoen this vlllago and Plymouth, when a Pero Mnrquetto excursion train bound from TM Ionia to Detroit, crashed Into a west' bound freight In a cut located at a sharp curvo ot tho Pcro Marquotto railroad, about a mllo oast of Salem. jjl Tho passongor train ot cloven, cars, '-al carrying tho Poro Marquotto shop 'M employes of Ionia and tholr families to tho Michigan metropolis for tholr annual excursion, was running at ,IH high speed, probably fifty miles an hour, down a steep grade. It struck tho lighter locomotive ot tho freight train with such terrible forco as to turn tho freight engine completely- around. Responsibility Is put square upon. tho crow ot tho freight train by offl-clals offl-clals of the road. Ono ot those who rH arrived at tho sceno of the wreck soon after tho ncoldent secured from tho crow ot tho freight tho orders un- fH der which it was running, and which Hj clearly showed tho position ot the . passongor excursion train, and that tho freight had encroached upon the 'H other train's running time. |