Show FORTY LIVES LOST AND SIXTY SIXTY V INJURED IN RAILROAD WRECK TRAGIC ENDING OF PLEASURE EXCURSION Trains Collide Colde Through Fatal Blunder of a Freight Conductor PASSENGERS IN A PANIC V Ghastly Sights of Suffering J Jand Horrible and Death Too for Description Washbourne Crossing near nor Salem Mich Ich July 20 Forty Forty persons w werd killed and In iet sixty injured a u railway n wreck on the hue Pere railroad here lieu short shortly h before fore Hi lii H o'clock this morning m oin I ng The Tho l known dead c I Ned ed Galagher Gallagher son Yn of or Mayor ox-Mayor Ix Gallagher r of or Ionia ronia Will Wi Dot Ionia John Patterson Pater on A Al I Bert onla lonja Martin KICer Ionic Ionia V Mrs Abraham Abrham I Eddy tc Ionia V l V N. N J J. J Cornell Cornel loom Ionia S SJohn John Rogers Ionia John Tafel Tarel Ionia lonia Mrs rs August RIchter Ionia lonia V Conductor I E E. E r H. H Pixley of o l excursion train ti-a ti I n V Frank Latham Ionia lonia S Frank f Frank Smith Ionia V Charles Hess and ana two sons son lenin Ionia Chat Charles McCauley sr ar Ionia lonia V T. T T K Ie Merrill photographer Ionia lania I Alb Albert rt Ionia lonia S Harr Harry Reynolds loom Ionia Homer Smith loam Ionia V Fred Fitzgerald louIs Ionia V J James d lenin Ionia V Grammar a a bo boy S Barr larry Harry Williams Ionia lonia Fred Vaughan Vaughun V William Kansas Jarpa City t. t V Ed Corwin Corvin head brakeman passenger pas pas- pas pas- I tra train In Ionia V Fireman Knowles of oC the excursion train rain l nin William Bread Prank Frank Douse e Edward wurl William CoLt Got Dick Jones Jone Mr Ir Mrs John ohn and four our unidentified men Collide head Ilund A JV special passenger train tt it f 11 Ii 11 eQ sl wI with IO n I r t S t tr B a t c. c S r lq S n fr i f i l j f d b gi 1 rl Tigh t- t tt t t t tome ome 1 I loi on the tho Dart art of ot the cr crew of or t the freight train H IL J on an stead Instead Jn of ot lying lying- over r nt at Plymouth which J Is the time despatch lag ing headquarters for tor this thin division lon orthe of or the tho tw Pete Pere Marquette to let the tho pas pas- p.- p. sen or puss pats The h passenger r train was wa Just rounding the Ute curve nt at Crossing when it came In Jn sight I ht of oC tho the freight train Both Roth engineers apparently apparently ap nl- ap- ap parent w s' saw sass their danger at the same saino moment shut oft of steam and applied With th the the emergency brakes Jh pa passenger pas pas- enger train ti-aln tra traveling traveling- nt at the tho rato rate of DC 5 45 miles an hour and the tho freight train almost as fast It was WS Impossible to 11 do V more than merely lessen the speed Inthe itt tei the brief brier Interval that tho elapsed from front the lie time tho ho trains came In sight o of each other until th they crashed to to- to gether The shock hock was terrific Both Doth locomotives loco ben motives were smashed tint out ut of or all 01 shape shapo and the time ears cai behind piled pled up UT on au 01 top tOil OIL of or them until of th the passenger train train- there were pro only five ilo of the coaches to tb kindling that wel were tere not reduced wood and amI Junk V Sl lits of Horror Above A bo botho the tho crash ro rose o th tIme the screams of ot tho the stricken panic pa passengers engers who had been heen pitched Into the middle of or th the cars em In heaps haps b by the shock of th the i collision lon nearly Hearly all 1 of or them item more or orless orless col less IOS Injured and anti crazed with wih fright rIght There was a hasty stampede the ten ter- stricken n people lighting with one another to 10 get out ou of oC doors doo and anti windows windows windows win win- dows and from the pile pla of wreckage came the cries of or those who were pinned down own by b heavy timbers suf su- suffering fering untold a agonies onles front from broken bones and mangled llesh lesh Dismembered bo bodies les arms and amI le legs s torn from tie trunks pieces leces of or human flesh and halt hair hal were scattered around fesh who anti and women woman everywhere c and amI men lund had ha just escaped with their lives fainted as ag the they viewed the Ute horrible sight The rhe four for that tho the pile pie of or wreckage In which man many persons both dead anti and alive were welo burled hurle might catch fre fire Hi-c. nerved tho ho survivors ors s to the work worl of rescue a work wOk in which they U were assisted as as- a- a sl tec by tho time farmers in th the vicinity With lh their bat bare hands or with Improvised Im tools tho they set to work worl to raise ralso the time hea heavy which human beings were weme lying and Ono after an another tn nother n- n other was wal released until when the the wrecking train trin arrived cd from Detroit had been extricated nearly nearl twenty bodies extricated besides a number Jumber of woun wounded lct people leopie The dead wore vere nearly nil all crushed beyond nn any hope hone of or on 01 I la vo n Two TRAGIC ENDING OF PLEASURE EXCURSION Continued from l Pago lugo a e One tion lion and their clothing was literally toni tont off of them Of or the sixty Injured who have been taken talen from the wreck it is believed that full fully half haIr will die lie There are probably other wounded men under underlie the lie debris which the wrecking crew is moving mo ns as rapidly as possible General Superintendent Trump who camo caine down with the wrecking train brought with him all the doctors and trained nurses he ie could lay his hands hand on The train also brought a n full sup- sup ot of bandages bandars s. s splints and othOr ma- ma J for coring caring for tor Injured antI and ough coffins for the As many manyas as s possible of or the injured will be tal taken cm to Detroit hospitals to he be cared for there ther The others will bo he taken to homes nearby Of or the triO or more children who accompanied the excursion it Is believed be be- lIe ed that all have escaped As soon as the injured haul hall been heen looked hooked after atter and disposition made made- of the dead all of or were Ionia people peo peo- leo leo- pl pie the officials of or the Pere Pore Marquette began to investigate the cause It did not tal take e them long to agree that toe blame rested with the crew of oC th the freight which had recE received J cd instructions to tho the effect that the passenger er train had ad tho the right of or way and to lay at Plymouth until the lie had passed The order for the passenger which left lert Ionia lonia less than an hour before the catastrophe was clear The Tile conductor conductor conductor con con- ductor had the right of or ora a way tray direct to Detroit The responsibility for the wreck rests upon the conductor of or the freight train said General Superintendent Trump frump He was given specific in instructions instructions in- in to allow the special s lon Ilon Train to have the right of way |