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Show EIGHTY PEOPLE KILLED IN MICHIGAN TRAIN WRECK. TWO PASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE WHILF RUNNING AT HIGH SPEED. Wreckage Takes Fire and Numbers of Bodies Bod-ies Incinerated West-bound Train Entirely Consumed Engineer Misread Orders. Eighty people dead, fifty of whom were killed outright, and 150 others injured, of whom twenty-tive are serious, seri-ous, is the result of a collision on the Wabash railroad, when two heavily loaded passenger trains collided head-on head-on at full speed one mile east of Adrian, Mich., Wednesday. The westbound train, composed of two cars loaded with immigrants and five other coaches, was smashed and burned with the awful loss of life and fearful injuries to a majrity of its passengers. The eastbound passenger train, the Continental Conti-nental Limited, suffered in scarcely less degree. The trains came together under a full head of steam. All but the two rear coaches of the westbound train were demolished and the coach on the eastbound train was telescoped. The immigrant train caught fire and burned up, The loss of life is estimated at from 80 to 110. The cause of the accident was the disobeying of orders by the engineer of the east bound train. Relief trains were hnrried to the scene, but the wreckage was burning so fiercely that the relief party could not get within several hundred feet of them. They were the baggage cars, the immigrant cars, two coaches and a chair car. There was nothing to do but to wait until the fire burned itself out. It was past midnight before a search of the ruins of the burned cars could be begun. As soon ns the heat had subsided sufficiently, scores of men began delving in the mass. It was slowly turned over and small crisp pieces of those who had perished in the flames were occasionally found. The largast portion of any body found was a teiribly-burned .trunk. The heat had been so intense that the cars and their human freight had been reduced re-duced to a blackened powder that was blowu about by the breeze. |