Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-10-21
COOKED II DEATH.
Awful Fate Of Victims Of
a R.ilr0ad Wreck.
DIS0BEDIENT TRAINMEN
Responsible For the Loss of
Twenty-Six Lives.
Details Of the Appa Hing Accident on the
Grand Trunk Road.

Two OF the men killed in the wreck at
Battle Creek, Mich, were Edwin /. Ma
goon and William w. Henry, who lived
near the line between East Greenwich and
Warwick, near Barton's Corner, about
three miles West of the village of East
Greenwich. They married sisters.
The father OF young Magoon was com.
pletely broken down last evening on
hearing the news OF his favorite sons
death.
81 don't know why it was" said ne,
"but yesterday afternoon one of the little
tots put his face up to mine and said, 1T
is you, and I'll be your boy, grandpap"
Mr.. Magoon said the thought occurred
to him at that time that something would
happen to the child's father.
Mr.. Harris of Providence was In the
wreck. He said: "Were you to build
raging fire and above 1T gridiron,
and on that place 80 human
beings, you could gain some idea
OF the scenes. All about us were men,
women and children held fast in burning
embers, slowly roasting before the eyes of
would be savers. l broke a window and
fought my way through the flames to a
place OF safety and then tried to help
the others. saw one child with a long
rod pierced through his body"
The Details.
LANSING, Mich, Oct 2l-rwo trains,
both Loaded with pass ngers, met in n di-
rect head-on collision on tue Grand Trunk
road Mt .8:45 yesterday morning In the sS-
burbs of this city. That The number of
dead and injured was not four.fold greater
Is due TO the fortunate fact that the col
lision occurred in the suburbs of city in
stead Of in the open country, where both
trains would have been running at full
speed.
AS it is, es charred, disfgured and un-
recognizable bodies lie in the morgSs and
q msrred and bleeding victims are groan-
ing in the ch rity hospi al How many
OF these wounded may be in the death list
no one can tell, for the injuries In many
cases are internal and unfat homable to
the only superficial medical examination
that is now possible
All that surgical science can do is being
uOut, anu luc Vi IIlt IUlN anu
Grand Trunk railroad are doing all that is
possible.
The two trains which met face to face
were both regular trains, although each
was considerably behind time. One was
Raymond & Whtcomb special train re-
turning from the Worlds fair and bound
for New York aud Boston, and the other
was the regular Pacific express west
bound train.
The RAYMOND & Whitcomb was running
a. an extra section OF regular train, and
was, therefore, "a regular" in the phrase
ology Of the railroad men.
OSders Were Ignored.
The engineer of the latter train had
positive orders to sidetrack for the express
at siding east of this city. He ignored
these orders. and 600 feet beyond this sid.
ing he met the east bound train full on.
Both trains were wrecked and half the
train Of the Pacific express was d, mol
ished aud burned. The Raymond a. Whit
comb train, being composed almost en-
tirely Of heavy sleepers, escaped serious
injury, and none OF the excursionists lost
their lives. The engineers and firemen of
both trains jumped in time to save their
lives, but 8 passengers Of the Pacific ex-
press met almost instant death.
The day coaches In the front part Of
this train were telescoped and burned, and
Of the ~ human remains at the morgue
onjectures can only he made as to the
identity Of six. Twenty remain entirely
unidentified. Those identified py letters
or articles In their clothing are:
c. G.. Van Dusen of Sproutbrook, y. Y.
Mrs. c. c. Van Dusen of Sprout brook,
\. Y, burned to death in the wreck.
w. w. Henry of Woonsocket, r. l.,
burned To crisp.
Mrs. +. X. Mckenzie, Middletown,
Conn, burned to crisp.
L. A. McGarvey of Toronto, mangled
and burned TO death.
J. w. Beardsley Of Watkins, N. Y,
burned and mapgled
The coroner has numbered each OF the
25 bodies In the morgue conseoutively,
and noted the articles that have been
found on each boiy that might Iced to
their Identification.
Yesterday afternoon Justice Henry is-
sued warrants for Henry Wooley, engi-
neer OF train No. ., and Conductor Burt
n. Scott. Wooley was put under 5000
bail for appearance next Monday. He
could not furnish the bail and was taken
to Jail. 1t was learned that Conductor
Scott had gone 20 Port Huron, and after
Justice Henry had heard the engineers
statement OF the collision he ordered the
officer TO telegraph To Port Huron to have
SCOTT arrested. Scott, however, voluntar-
lily returned last night
Blsmes the Conductor.
Engineer W ooley made this statement
to Justice Henry: "Wben my engine was
coupled Oh the train at the depot, Con-
ductor Scott asked me II I was ready to
60 said, no. had not oiled my engine
yet, ard took my oilcsn and got of at
the side fsrthest from the depot on the
south side. Scott came around on my side
Of the engine and handed my orders and
said to me: No. . has gone through. The
dispatcher Is crazy about us not getting
out Of here
Il hurried up and got through oiling,
and at that time Conductor Scott asked
me IL I WAS ready To 20 1 asked him III he