Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-20
BAD WRECK AT JACKSON
TWELVE PEOPLE KILLED, OVER
A SCORE BADLY INJURED.
Severe Copfiagration at Detroit with One
Fatallty.-Promlnent Tecumseh Ladies
Arrested for neutrality-suspicious..

The Delaware e. Lackawanna rail-
road was running huge excursion
from New York state TO the Worlds
Fair and the trains ran over the Michi-
gan Central through Canada and Mich
igan. There were seven sections of the
excursion consisting of twelve coaches
each. The first section had stopped at
Jackson for breakfast. Most of the
passengers had eaten and were either
on board the train or exercising by
strolling about the depot. In two
minutes the train would pull out when
suddenly the second section was seen
coming at full speed through the yards
and crashed with awful force into the
rear coach of the frs section.
The ears broken and demolished
were thrown in every direction in
frightful confusion and the passengers
were ground under the merciless wheels
or crushed between the timbers. Nine
cars were wrecked, two telescoped and
the second engine battered and almost
dismantled by the debris into which it
plowcd.
The depot m en-, uninjured passengers
and many citizens went to work i'm
mediateiy to take the dead and in
jured persons from the wreck. Physi-
clans and i!hprovised ambulances were
soon AZ the scene from all over the
city and in a comparatively short time
the dead had been taken TO undertake
ing establishments and the injured
sent To hospitals, hotels and residences
where the best of care was given them.
Within 20 minutes six dead and three
times rs many injured were removed
and within two hours the number had
been sweiled to L. dead and 25 injured
and 10 seriously.
The complete list of the killed is as
follows: Mrs. Charles Starr, Elmira,
N. Y. miss Harriet Breeze, Pierce City,
N. Y; Miss Maggie McMaster, Penn
Yam, N. Y; George Hoffman, Lowman,
N. Y; Mrs. |. N. Beardslee, East Can
ton, Pa; Mrs. j. Ii. Keller, Hammonds-
port, n. Y; Mrs. Lloyd Wood bury,
Wheeler, N. Y; Mrs. ID. G. Gibbs,
Wheeler, n. Y; James Woodbury., her
father-in-law, of Bath, n. Y; infant
child of Mrs. Arson Harrington, Ell
mira, N. Y; w. r.. Gilmore, Morris
Run, Pa; Mrs. w. II. Gilmore, his wife.
) The engineer and fireman of the
second section were among the severely
injured, but the first thing the former
said was that the semaphore was up
and he knew the first ira n was there
but the air brake of his train would
not work; he reversed the throttle but
it was too late to avoid the crash. The
engine pulling the second train was a
"1O-wheeler" and the heaviest on the
road.
George Starr, Darwin Z. Gibbs and
Lloyd Woodbury. left their wives in
seats and got down beside the cars TO
smoke and get breath of fresh air.
Their wives remained in the seats.
The three women were instantly
killed. Lloyd Woodbury. was standing
on the ground and saw the incoming
train. lie did not know it was on the
same track that the silent section
stood. There are many tracks looking
in that direction. When not four rods
away Mr. Woodbury. saw that the en-
CINE was on the same track as the cars
in which his loved ones were. Fran
tically he sprang on the platform in
his attempt to save his wife and father.
Then the death-dealing engine of the
second train crashed into the car. Mr..
Woodbury. was thrown some feet to
the ground, but had he been quicker
TO get on the train he would have been
killed with the others.
Many of the incidents beggar WORD
painting. A man and wife who were
on their wedding trip died in each
others arms. Another old gentleman
sought in vain among the crowd fol
his wife. At last he found her among
the dead, with her head almost severed
from her body. He fell at her side anC
also died with her name, "Mary" on
his lips. A mother was found deaC
with her blood spattered over her liv,
ing G-months-old infant. Another babe
was killed in its mothers arms and the
mother badly injured.