Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-15
SHEPHERD IN MOURNING.
A Collision on the T. g. A. Kills
and Injuries Fifteen OF her
Citizens.


One of the most disastrous wrecks
which the L. u A. has yet had, occurred
at kennedy's Crossing one and one half
miles south of Shepherd last Sunday
evening at $40 standard. The injury
to life and limbs was APPALLING, three
men were taken out dead and IL more
or less injured. On Sunday train OF
some 10 flats drawn by engine SO had
orders to load with logs at Taylor's
Hill ABOUT two and one-half miles south
OF Shepherd. The logs were bought
for OwOsso parties by Charles Walling
OF Shepherd and one train load was
left. About six in the afternoon the
train pulled back with ID loaded cars
leaving few logs behind and as their
right-of. had expired asked from
the superintendent aud was granted, ali
extension Of two and one-half hours in
which TO 60 back and finish loading the
balance and as portion of the crew
were tired out Walling obtained some
others from Shepherd to help him out.
Fourteen loaded cars and the caboose
| were left on the main track by the
coal kilns and the engineer and four
| flats with men went back to work. At
9:l0 No 20 driven by Jim Leathers
| with 10 loaded cars came into the
North Shepherd yard and not until she
rounded the curve two train lengths
from the coal pits did the engineer
discover the lights on the log train. He
| whistled for the brakes and reversed
his engine but the momentum carried
him on until he crashed through the
caboose and into the logs upsetting his
engine and one log Car and starting
the other thirteen down the track. The
caboose was split in two, the engine
was stripped of everything breakable
but no further damage was done. Even
the engineer, who held to his lever when
the timbers crashed through his cab
and until his engine rolled into the
ditch, crawled out of the debris with.
out scratch. In the mean time tn g
IL cars, gaining speed every second,
tore down the track and without
warning struck the other portion of the
train returning to Shepherd. The
shock was awful. The first car struck
was an empty one upon which were
the men who were thrown in every
direction. Those who were not Injured
reused some OF the neighboring farmers
and word was hastily sent to Shepherd.
There the fire bell WAS rung and help
sent to the scene Of the disaster. The
following is a list of the dead aud in
jured:
| KILLED.
Zeb. Bigelow, aged 26, unmarried;
g. f. Struble, married, leaves a wife
and two children; Sherwood Clark,
married, leaves wife.
| INJURED.
Lewis Cole, shoulder broken; Oliver
Ferrall, shoulder dislocated, head bad.
ly cut; Amos Pickett, hurt in chest;
John Kennedy, slightly injured Chas.
Walling, internal injuries, very danger
Gus; Frank Hartford, hurt in chest;
Gus. Ryder, leg jammed; James Will
son, slightly bruised; c. Huntington,
bruised; Geo. Starr, back bruised;
Clarance Bailey back hurt; Jay Struble,
bruised.
The above were all Of Shepherd. The
conductor, S. b. Anyway, and brakeman
Bert Squires, both of Owosso were hurt
internally. The strangest part of the
whole thing is that more We're not killed.
The men OH engine 36 were not injured
in the least. While it Is hard to locate
the blame ii is evident that there was