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Show and fell to pieces before their eyes. ' Nineteen In Wrecked Car. The assertion that there were Jus! nineteen passengers on the wrecked car Is boine out by the train charl Pullman Conductor Ilaynes and th list given out at Chicago by H. G Elliott, first assistant general pas-sen Eer agent of the Grand Tmnk. Tho uninjured passengers, accord ii:g to Superintendent Ehrke wen checked up when tho train started eastward after the wreck. VICTIMS CAUGHT LIKE RATS IN TRAP 0000000000000000 o o O The dead: O O JAMES McBEAN. Chicago. O O MRS. ALMA WOODWARD, O O enroute Belfleld, N. D., to Port O j O Huron. Mich. O O NURSE accompanlyng Mrs. O C Woodward from St. John's hos- O O pltal. Halifax. O O MRS. SQUIRES, residence un- O O known. O O SQUIRES. 10 year old O O Bon of Mrs. Squires. O O MRS. E. M. GILPIN. Chicago. O O The injured: O O Mrs. Leslie Dochlar, LaVIsM, O O Ont., (probably meant for Tavls- O O lock) 74 years old. fractured O O right leg and left hip. at Flint O O hospital. O O Albert B. Watts. Edmonton. G O Alberta, not seriously burned, at O O. Flint. O O Mrs. F. H. McBean. Chicago, O C mother of James McBean, frac- O O lured right leg. O O Mrs S. A. Sheltes, Chicago. O O fractured right arm and Internal O O Injuries. O O Clinton A. Davis, Montreal, O O seriously Injured. O O Passengers who escaped In- O O Jury: O O Jeffries, Racine. O O Dodd. Minneapolis. O O Parley, Minneapolis. O O Man In lower six, name un- O O known. O O Unidentified woman in lower O O seven. O O Unidentified man boarded O O train at South Bend and left O O at Flint. O O Two unidentified men in up- O O per seven. O O George E. Nelson, fireman of O O the second train, probably was O O fatally scalded and Bert Mitch- O O ell. emrineer of the forward O O train, bad his bead so terribly O O crushed that, he may die. O O o 0000000000000000 DURAND, Mich., Aug. 25. With the clearing away today of the ruins ru-ins of the wrecked and burned Pullman Pull-man sleeping car "Nebraska" probably prob-ably hus disappeared all hopes of determining the Actual number of lives lost late last night when the rear section of the Boston and Montreal Mon-treal express from Chicago crashed Into the forward section of a Grand Trupnk train three miles east of this village. Estimates of the number num-ber of dead vary from eight or a dozen doz-en A' possibly twenty. Fallowing are at the .lurley hospital, hospi-tal, this city, badly injured: Burt Mitchell. Battle Creek, engi-' engi-' neer of train No. 14, head bruised; condition critical. Arthur Wall, Edmonton, Alberta Canada, face and hands burned. Mrs Kate McBean, Chicago, right leg fractured and bruises. Mrs. Lester Docbler. Tavislock, Ont., fractured leg and bruises. The injured who were taken to the hospital at Durand are: George Nelson. Battle Creek, fireman fire-man on No. 4. badly scalded, prolv ablv will die Clinton A. Davis, Montreal, scalded, probably fatal. Mrs. M. stelty, Dubuque, I., upp'-r lip cut and severely bruised. Charles Spencer or Bntile Creek, engineer on No. I. Is eahl to have been badly injured, but his name does not anpear on the list given out by tho railroad nrf)Hala. Ouo report was that twenty pas- Singers had been In the "Nebraska" jesterday at Chicago and that eight n ore were taken on as the train pro-reeded pro-reeded eastward, but the car porter said there was only eighteen persons asleep In tho car when the wreck occurred. If the number ou board was eighteen the tlx Injured passengers passen-gers today taken to Flint and Durand hospital, and the six bodies recovered recov-ered would account for twelve, leav-iug leav-iug six persons to be accounted for. Engine Crashes Into Car. The forward section which was known as No. 14 had stopped because of an accident to the airbrakes and Engineer Mitchell had crawled under liln engine to locate the trouble. Mitchell's bead was terribly crushed when his engine was Jolted forward by the shock of collision. The locomotive loco-motive of the second section, known ac No 4, ploughed half way through the rear sleeper of the forward train and the locomotive's fire box set fire-lo fire-lo tho Pullman car. Caught Like Rats In a Trap. The i.assenger.s In the rear berths had not the slightest chance to escape es-cape and those not killed as the locomotive lo-comotive forged through the sleeper, were burned to death. Half a dozen doz-en passengers, however, seriously Injured In-jured were rescued from tho forward berths. The body of James McBean has not been Identified but he Is known to have been lost In the wreck and tho woman and child who have not been identified are believed to be mother and son, as the little one was found In the woman's arms A blackened watch, a diamond studded crucifix and a locket bearing the Initials "II. S L." were found in tho search for clue to tho Identity of the burned corpses. Cause of Wreck Is Mystery. The cause of the wreck Is a mystery mys-tery and an Inqnesf will bo held. Engineer Spencer of the second Fcctlon of the train when he heard the torpedo signal that there was a train standing on the track ahead of him. said that he was almost on top of the forward section. An exploded torpedo was found today fifty rail lengths from tho scene of the col-liion col-liion and Assistant Superintendent Ehrke of Ihe Grand Trunk railroad Faid that the second section could havo beeu stopped In 800 fot. Brakeman Disputes Engineer. Brakeman G. Graham of the forward for-ward FocJlon today asserted that ho ran back nearly n mile with the torpedo tor-pedo aud that he waved a red light to stop the oncoming train. Graham also disputed Englueer Spencer of the second train that the rear lights of the forward section were, not turning. This evening Graham could not be located by the railroad officials. j The wreck was characterized by all the grew soiii.? scenes attending a rail- j Toad disaster al midnight. Farmers vho ran from their homes to assist In the work of rescue were held bark by the flames and compelled to fl ind holples-i wltV.'xscs of the roasting roast-ing of human bodlea which burued , |