The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-21
4 MANGLED
MASS Oh
HUMANITY.
d Sickening Story From Battle
Creek, Mich.
YwENTY-sIX ARE KILLED.
Hunan Beings Beyond All identi-
fcatiOn.
Frventy-six Dead, and Many Others Now
Lying in the Hospital, MARRIED and
bleeding and Grooming in
Agony-The Grentest Hol-
ocaust in the History
of Michigan.
q Sickening Story From Battle
Creek, Mich.
YwENTY-sIX ARE KILLED.
Human Beings Beyond All ldenti.
ficatiOn.

Battle Creek Mich, Oct. 2O.-An err
ror of one human being, of a man who
crouches affrighted in a prison cell
tonight. led to the greatest railroad
holocaust in the history of Michigan
TODAY. and twenty-six human lives
paid the penalty of moments neg
hgeace.
Two trains. both laden with pas
sengers. met in a direct head on col
liSion on the Grand Trunk railroad at
s:45 this morning in the suburbs of
this city and that the number of
dead and injured is not four-fold
greater is due to the circumstances
that the. collision occurred in the sub
urhs OF the city, where the trains
Stacked speed.
As it is twenty-six charred, disfig-
ured and unacceptable lie in the
morgue tonight, and twenty-seven
nlarred and bleeding victims are
grooming in agony in the Charity hos
pital. How many of these wounded
may be in the death list tomorrow,
none can tell. for the injuries in many
cases are quite unfathomable to the
medical examination that is possible
now
All that surgical science can do is
being done, and the officials of the
railroad are doing all possible to allie
viate the victims of the dreadful dis
aster
The two trains met face to face.
Both were regular trains, although
each was considerably behind time,
One was the Raymond & Whitcomt
special train, returning from the
Worlds fair. and the other the regu-
lar Pacific express west-bound. The
engineer of the Raymond & Whitcomt
train had positive orders to side track
for the express at a siding mile east
of this city. He ignored orders, and
600 feet beyond the siding he met the
east-bound train full on.
Both trains were wrecked and hall
of the train of the Pacific express was
demolished and burned. The Ray
nnond & Whitcamb train, being com
posed almost entirely of heavy sleep
ers. escaped serious injury, and none
~ce the excursionists lost their lives.
The engineers and firemen Of both
trains Jumped in time. but twenty-siz
Messengers oil the 1clClliC CAfISSc 114Cl
an almost instant death on the day
coaches in front Part. of this trair
was telescoped and burned and CT the
txventv-six human remains at the NOR
que tonight conjectures can only be
made as to the identity of six. Twenty
remain entirely unidentified. The iden
titled are as follows.
c. c. vanDusen. Sproutbrook, N. Y
died in the hospital.
nT-c - nD1Cor S0rO11f 1rOnlx
N Y, burned to death after the wreck
and before she could be extricated.
w w. Henry, Woonsocket, r. I.
burned to a crisp.
T. A McGarvey, Ontario, Canada
mangled and burned to death
J. w. Beardley, Watkin, n. Y.
burned and mangled.
The coroner numbered each body
now in the morgue consecutively, anc
noted articles found on each body
that might lead to Identification.
On one body a paper marked 'sE. T
Mogen, Providence. r. L." was found
on another a statement from Johr
Monroe, banker. of New York, t.
Charles E. Verde; also a note in Ger
man from Charles E. Wenzle to DR.
Howard z. Vance.
An unknown baby was burned to {
crisp.
The following articles were found il
the debris. but it is impossible to con
meet them with the bodies: A book
League of American Wheelmen," Will
the name inside of William Louis VIII
son. Northwestern University, Evans
Ton, ILL.,, $50 Sheridan Road; cards ant
envelope marked Miss L. B. Hayes
the cards were bought of George Muir
Evanston, H.; box of pills. marked
Bradley, Evanston. H.; bible thor
ouShiy wet and partially burned. CAV,
the following on the title page: I'm
hlem for H Clements, class. anchor
Hebrews, P 10; teacher. J. S. Arch
Easter, 1885," The name is so near TIL
- edge that only Arch" could be de
c1phered.
There are in the morgue eightee,
bodies-eight males. seven females am
three corpses were burned beyond tn
means of identih- ation or ascertain
ing the sex.
Immediately after the accident tn
manned and injured were conveyed /,
the Nicholas Memorial hospital in thi
city.
The complete list of the injured. a
reported at Assistant superintendent
eGlassfords Office. in Detroit, is
II. w. Williams, Toronto.
W A Byerse, Port Dover. Ont.
William Henry Bushnell, Brockport
n. Y.
S. H. Smith, J. H. Smith. Israe
Smith. Berry Smith, Mrs. Smith, all o
Port Plain. n. Y
Miss Belle Williams, Rrockport, n
Y
Frederick wertz. Rochester N. Y
Mrs. Wertz and Miss VERT, Roches
ter. n. Y
Frank Turnveigel. Blissheld, Pa.
Jennie Stewart and J. S. Stewart
Dalton Station, Ill
C. G. Van Dusen, Sprobrook, N. Y.
since died
w. Thompson, woodstock. Ont.
Frank Rogers, Woodstock. Ont.
Hrs. Vance and George Vance, Sim
coe. Ont.
Albert Bradley, Toronto Ont.
George Shackleton, Evanston, III.
Thomas J. Monroe, Auburn, N. Y.
i. z. Davidson, Fairport, N Y.
G. S. Adams, Buffalo, N Y
Clinton H. Ward. Morton, VT
Mrs. Henry Bushnell, Rockport, N. 7
s. H. Smith. expected TO die.
J. S. Harchbeld, Evanston. III.
Charles Beardsley. Springfield, Mass
S. II. Baldwin. Milford. Conn
NJ J. H. Smith. Ingersol. Ont.
Il The Raymond & Whitcomb train wa