Show FRIGHTFUL RAILROAD I 1 terrible disaster on the I 1 grand trunk I 1 THE VICTIMS BURNED TO A CRISP an n express train and a raymond excursion train mertat nearly full speed N near ar battle crecia mich mick four cars of the tile express telescoped twenty S seven even killed and handed mangled and burned bey beyond and R cir As many more terribly injured ared the horrible falo fate of mrs van dusan her cherole death the onlookers ila gloved ved to tours tears collision calls caused d by wilful disobedience of orders I 1 I 1 BATTLE CREEK midi mich oct 20 the tha I 1 error of one human being of a man who crouches bos affrighted in a prison cell tonight led to the greatest railroad holocaust 0 in the tile history of michigan today and twentysix twenty six human I 1 lives paid the penalty of one moments I 1 negligence two trains both laden with passengers met in a direct head on collision on tile the grand tr trunk k railroad at 3 45 this morning in cie suburbs of thia this city aud and that ft at the number of dead and inured injured is is not four fold greater is is due to the circumstance that the collision occurred ili in the suburbs of the city where the trains had bad slackened their speed As the twentysix twenty six charred disfigured and unrecognizable bodies lie in the morgue tonight and twenty seven marred and bleeding victims are groaning in in agony in the charity bos hospital it I 1 1 how many of ot these wounded may be e i in the death list tomorrow none can tell for the injuries in in many cases ua are qu quite lie unfathomable to medical examination that is possible now all that surgical I 1 science can dois do is being done and the officials of the railroad aro are doing all that is possible to alleviate the sufferings of the victims of the dreadful disaster the tv trains that met face to face were both regular trains alt although bough each was considerably conser ably behind time one was a raymond whitcomb special train returning from the world worlds fair and the other the regular pacific express P r ess westbound the engineer of the raymond A whitcomb train had positive tire orders to a side track for the express at a BI siding one mile east of this city he lie ignored the orders and COO OW feet beyond the sid aid ang I 1 he 1 0 met the east bound train full on both trains were wrecked and halt half of the train of the pacific express was demolished moli inolia shed lied and burned the tile raymond whitcomb train being composed almost entirely of heavy alee sleepers era escaped cerious serious injury and none 0 of F the edcur zionists lost their lives the engineers and firemen of both trains jumped in time but twenty six passengers on oil the pacific express met Alf almost host instant I 1 death tile da day coaches ili in the front part of this traen train were telescoped and eart burned urne A and of the twentysix twenty six human remains at the morgue tonight co n e c turea tares can only be made as to the identity den I 1 of six twenty remain entirely unidentified denti fied the identified are ae as follows 0 00 C vandusen Sprout brooL brook N Y died in the hospital mrs 0 0 vandusen Sprout S ut ll brooL ook N Y burned to death alter alter th the wrack and before she could bo be extricated IV W V henry woonsocket it I 1 burned to a crisp mrs E it mc me I 1 lonzie middletown conn bu burned to I 1 a crisp T A Alc McG Garvey arvoy ontario canada mangled and burned to death J W beardley watkins N Y burned I 1 and mangled the tile coroner lias has numbered each of the bodies in the morgue consecutively and and noted the tile articles found on each body ahat that might lead to identification on onta body a paper marked E T mozon providence R I 1 was found on another a statement from john monroe bankeroff banker banke of new york to charles E also a note in german from A charles E to dr howard evance JG vanco I 1 an unknown baby waa was burned to a I 1 crisp the following article articles were found I 1 in in the tile debris but it is is impossible to connect them with the bodies abood A book league of american wheelmen wheelman elmen with I 1 the name inside of william louis wil son northwestern university evanston sheridan road cards and envelope marked misa miss L B clayes the cards were bouast of A J muir of evanston P ill a box of pille pills marked bradley radley JS evanston ET anston 11 A bible thoroughly net wet and partially burned pave gave the to following lowing on the title page emblem for bt st clements class an anchor Ille hebrews brows 6 10 19 teacher J S arch Li laster aster 1888 the name wasso was near the edge that only aich arch 1 could be deciphered there are in i the morgue eighteen bodies eight males seven females and and I 1 three corpses burned beyond means of identification or of ascertaining their immediately after the accident bec med and injured i ared were co conveyed f tl the 0 ayi Ive hoppl 19 to 1 th the I 1 memorial morial hospital hosp itaf in this city th the it raymond whitcomb train was i in charge of bond conductor actor scott of this cit engineer henry wooley was mulling it and there appears to bo be no acears doubt O 0 abt tia that engineer ooley oo leys negligence eglio was the cause of the accident the conductor and engineer received wiers hero to meet the pacific faal fi c express I 1 SN at N ichols inginger Ingi 9 noer wooley got orders at battle greek and getting beyond the stretch of double track kept vond bight feht ahead at B ft rattling pace he ile met mile less he pacific express aalf a or below tho tile meeting place made for him was coming at the the pacific express rate of thirty miles an fill hour from nicha friola Is the tile curve begins so it U was ampol impossible isible for either engineer to see the 01 other ber until the headlights appeared bad had scarce scarcely ly time to reverse apply they e them themselves selves as tile air brakes and save could when bead on the tile en on they leet beat the raymond together gether tv whitcomb nes came tram train tog stood stock abill with the excepting shudder bout more than a car at the bead end which bad the front stove in none of tile d beyond a goro on tile train ivere bever on D the otha UP trait 1 all tile horror was the frail day c caches behind tile bagaas car ado ont up to of 8 q h in r t easm Tb etrain tere four slid the first coaches teen telescoped the of the were caught in their passengers were general ass of I 1 the and seats the and to add to their misery bilins lode d and in a 0 aj lamps exp 0 ment the codr cars were a sheet of flames the battle creek fire department did 11 heroic work they received the alarm fl live ve minutes after the accident the horses could not be driven between the thi cars on account of tile flames so a rope was hitched bitched to the chemical and it was wai haul hauled ed by berhand band in position and the therea rear sleeper elee per sarnia was saved the firemen ine took look out eve every ry body and practically cleared away the debris the third coach of the express left the track and plowed right through the second scraping all the seats and passengers along w with ith it and deposited them in a heap in m e north end of the C car a r w where here most of the bodies wen fou found nd the bodies were loaded on a flat car taken to the battle creek station then conveyed into ranger parleys undertaking laed rooms where a morgue was extempore while everything was done to relieve theyer the remains naine of their ghostly appearance the scene at the morgue appalled palled the stoutest heart the dea dead appalled as wore ranged along side of the dark basement which was illuminated by v a feeble flickering jet not a shred of clothing was left upon them and the remains were so mangled and disfigured they resembled nothing but ancient mummies that might have been disfigured before death thebert the best preserved corpse was that of a boy about 12 years old a fringe of hair of reddish gars hue ua was left about the ears and base of the skull the upper jart of oi the head was gone consumed by the tile flames a portion et of the brains protruded and was of a white yellowish color they were literally cooked another of the best preserved bodies was that of a man of of powerful physical ical frame the flames had licked the victims faco face shoulders and body but the features and contour of the figure remained as in life and might be identified by those familiar with his appearance pe arance those these two were the least scarred and the best beat preserved of that row of twenty unrecognizable dead the other remains are only in ili parts some headless some armless and nil all shrivelled shrivel ehn veiled led and disfigured beyond resemblance to human beings tho the twenty seventh victim F if smith willbe will be added to alie death list before morning albert bradley is the nest next of the most seriously injured but ho lie is expected to recover the rest of the patients are all reported comfortable and out of danger at midnight the friends and relatives of some of it the dead and injured arrived hereto here tonight and the remains of the unfortunates will bo be taken to their homes for burial as soon bs us permission is given by the coroner IV E clarke of S sarnia arnia ont arrived tonight and found hia his sonin inlaw law albert bradley seriously injured and his daughter mrs bradley Brad lev dead her ifer body could bo be identified only by ebrens of clothing the flesh being burned into antoan an unrecognizable mass at the hospital lies her tier husband or crying ehg continually in his tile delirium 1 I have ave you found my wife i the survivors tell vivid experiences II 11 0 crowley of fort port huron at the time of the accident had just left his brother IV II 11 crowley in the second coach he ile could not igind find him after the wreck and spent all day in a futile search ile fears biow now he lie is among those so terribly burned jolin john 0 S stewart of dalton ill had his body badly bruised braised and his daughter jennie was also seriously injured and bad had her arm broken he ile had two children with him a bo boy a and d a girl the boy heroically rescued his s sister ister pulling her tier through the coach window 0 0 van dusen of sprout crook N Y accompanied by his wife was on bi his way Y to the fair he ile was taken out 0 of f t the lie wreck crushed and bruised and taken to the ll hospital where he lie dhea died in a short time lie ile was conscious to the last and calmly arranged hie his business affairs leaving everything in the hands bands of bi his friend the rev george gulp culp he ile aid did not know of the awful fate of his wife mrs van dusen was pinned in the telescoped cars and at first had no doubt of escape As she looked out of the window and awaited the rescuers the alarm of fire was given hurry up glease please said she A minute later wh while e strong men were wee straining to extricate her the flames began beagan to creep rapidly towards her tier you shant burn well get you out cried the men as they tiley wrestled frantically with the splintered timbers the rescuers had bad become giants in strength and mad men in desperation and struggled wildly with the tangled mass ms e of wood and iron tile woman was silent and gazed imploringly into the faces of the firemen my god 1 my god ill I 1 suddenly burst from the tile lips of one of the heroic work workers era and in that despairing cry the helpless woman read her death warrant she g gave one agonized wail wall and then h her e r womans weakness g gave way to a mart rys ia M strength ft again I 1 t they ley struggled to rescue ber herbut the flames were encircling the tho party and tho the blaze claimed the tile victim that the crash bad had spared 1 I am a christian she said resignedly and a moment later her voice was raised raised in pr prayer e r the flames now completely ell encircled ci re re d the helpless victim and the firemen were driven away As the blaze caught her ber arms and as she wildly ild tried to keep the flames fr from om her tier face she told her tier name and a address adress and left messages of love to her husband and family the closing minute was a pathetic aphetic struggle against the inevitable eat but it was the flesh that struggled struggle dt not the spirit the white whito face of the tile woman gazed heavenward and her tier ii lips a moved in in prayer E even yen the fury of tto the flames that wreathed her limbs and blistered and curled the while white flesh of her arms were ere powerless to provoke a scream suddenly there was a swaying and surging of the burning tim timbers bers above her a wild groan burst from the lipe lips of the spectators and strong men wept through their tears they r aw the flames sweep around the face of the martyred woman and her tier hair burned wildly for a moment the tile head dropped to one side as the victim inhaled the flames the pra praying eting lips were stilled and the soul of mrs re van had passed beyond the fury of the clements elements of this earth an houra hour later cr or husband for whom ehe she left a loving message had joi joined ned her tier in tho the world to corner engineer henry booey and conductor scott of train no 6 have both been arrested and placed under bonda bonds for their appearance engineer wooly said to lothe the justice that while hoaas he was oiling up at the depot conductor S scott cott came no to him with 4 orders and said to him that no 9 had gone through and that the dispatcher was crazy be because cause they had not got oat out booey hurried up I 1 1 1 his oiling and when he be got ot into the cab told the conductor he was ready to go and asked if he was su sure re t that 11 at no 9 bad gone through scott eaid said yes she had bad and wooleys fireman heard him himely bay so scott f further urther said the tile road was all clear and they started out when they got in the yards an engine which he be supposed at first was a switch engine but but seeing a moment later it was coming too fast be shut off and was at a dead standstill when no 6 struck him hiril he ile asked scott after the wreck about the order and scott muttered ho he thought no 9 was gone scott cott who returned th this is e evening e ning from port huron emphatically iball y d denied e hied wooleys statement lie ile sa bays b he eun understood d e his tile orders perfectly and did not t tell ell the engineer that no 9 had gone by the tile responsibility on of f the wreck seems undoubtedly rege y t to 0 lie between tween these two men the railroad men say however that even it if scott had made the statement attributed to him by wooley this would not have justified the engineer in disobeying orders the coroners investigation begins monday A message was received late by father sudler sadler from st michaels cabals college toronto askine asking for father dark lie was among the unidentified dead the tile frien friends of dr charles osborn and wife of sou southwort southport South port conn and chester rice of D brookside ra vt were unable to find a any n y trace of them up to midnight and they are supposed to be among tho tile dead the complete list of the injured as reported at assistant class fords office in detroit is aa as follows 11 HW W williams toronto IV A by erse port dover ont william henry bushnell brockport Brock port N Y S II 11 smith J 11 II smith li ifraci rael smith berry smith mrs smith all of fort plain N Y miss belle alle wil williams llama brockport Brock port N Y frederick wertz rochester N Y mrs wertz and miss wertz rochester N Y frank Turn Bliss fiield pa jennie steward stewart and J S stewart dalton station illinois 0 0 van dusan Sprol brook N Y since died IV thompson woodstock ont frank rogers woodstock ont mrs vance and george vance simcoe ont albert bradley toronto ont george shackleton Evan evanston stori illinois thomas J monroe auburn N Y E E davidson Da fairport Fair nort 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