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Show ANOTHER RAILWAY HORROR. Seventeen Killed and Thirty-one Injured In-jured Near Grand Raplda, Mich. Seventeen persons are dead and thlrty-ono Injured, several of them fatally, fa-tally, as the result ( f the collision near Grnnd Ttaplds, Mich., of two passenger trnlns. Tho colllelon. which was head-on, head-on, wna caused, according to a statement state-ment Issued by thn olVrlnls of the road at the general offices In Pctrolt. by thn high wind blowing out tho red signal lamp nt MeCord'a, where tho we-ttbound freight. No. 5. should have stopped and received orders to pass tho eastbound train nt Fox. Thn trains met with a terrific crash, tho hnrrcasn and smoMng cars behind each lncometlvo beln Instantly reduced re-duced to a pile of Kindling wood. No person occupying the enrs other thnn the baggage 'and stinking cars, with very fow except Ions, were seriously Injured. |