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Show car. The train hit the front end of the car. tearing It to bits. Mangled passengers, living and dead, were carried on the front of the engine nearly a block before the train was brought to a stop. Lifted Living from the Ruins. Motormnn Abbott with the cut-off was pulled from under the engine un-conclous. un-conclous. The living were lifted from tho front of the engine and with those taken from the ruins of tho street car, were hurried to hospitals. Tho passenger who were caught in tho cars were burned and shocked from an electric current that was continually con-tinually running through tho metal lie parts of the car until the trolley was removed. Girl Meets Horrible Death. Miss Elvira Craig was frlchtfully burned. Her back was a mass of charred flesh. For nearly a minute she lay In the street with her clothes ablaze before being discovered. Shortly Short-ly after her removal to the hospital she died. Miss Cora Frenthoway lay nil night beside the track uncouclous from terrible ter-rible injuries She was removed to her home some time today. Tho railroad companies refused to give out a statement concerning tho wreck, but hnvc already begun an investigation. in-vestigation. General Manager's Statement. DETROIT, Nov. 13. Richard II. L'Hommeilleu. genetal manager of the Michigan Central railroad, returned tonight to-night from Kalamazoo, where- he Investigated In-vestigated last night's accident. "The train was running about twenty-five miles an hour." ho said, "which probably would exceed the ordinance limit. The fact that the express train was delayed five hours in setting set-ting out of New York, however, was not responsible for its speed in running run-ning through Kalamazoo. In such localities lo-calities as that where the accident occurred, oc-curred, the engineer would have been running his trnlu at Uiat speed had he been on time. "Freight cars standing near tho crossing made It absolutely impossible impos-sible for him to eee tho street car until he was almost on top of it and then he stopped his train within Its own length. Th? railroad company has done everything within Its power for the dead and Injured and will continue con-tinue the Investigation as to the responsibility re-sponsibility for the wreck." STREET CAR AND EXPRESS COLLIDE THE DEAD. s WARD ABBOTT. 2.". WM. SCHAEFFER, Ar,. -t-f- MISS ELVIRA CR,.VIO, 20. GEO. M. NORMAN. 49. THEO MOSK. 2C. J. L. LANG. 35. f All the dead except Mosk f lived in Kalamazoo. l f 1 ! KALAMAZOO. Mich.. Nov. 13. Six persons are dead and twenty-six in- jured, four probably fatally, as the result of a collision between a street car on the Kalamazoo city lines of ihe Michigan United Railways company com-pany and a westbound express trnlu on the Michigan Central railroad lat night. All the dead and Injured were passengers on the street car. Running at High Speed. The train was running into the city at high speed, and as it rounded a curve It crashed Into the street car. Conductor Vern Van Horn, of the Btreet car was standlnc between the Michigan Central douhle tracks. Van Horn claims ho did not see the Iraln or hear it. until it was directly upon him. It was then tenj late to stoo tn |