The Red Cloud chief., 1893-10-27
BURNED INTAWRECK,
THE CARELESS NEGLECT OF ORDERS
BY AN ENGINEER

"A score Of feesenRere Rinneu IN III
Burning Wreck and Slowly Roasted.
BATTLE CREEK. Mich. Oct. 21.-Ths
error of one human being-of = man whs
at this time crouches ~affrighted like O
hunted animal in . prison cell-led to the
greatest railroad holocaust 10 the history
Of Michigan, and twenty-six human lives
have paid the penalty Of the moments
negligence. Two trains, both laden with
passengers, met in . direct head.on col.
lision on the Grand Trunk railroad at SA,
a. m. in the suburbs Of this city,
and that the number of dead and injured
was not four fold greater is due to the for.
tunatc fact that the collision occurred in
the suburbs Of II city instead Of In the open
country where 10th trains would have
been running at full speed. As 1t is,
twenty-six chsrred, disBgured and un.
recognizable bodies lie in the morgue, and
twenty-seven MANNED and bleeding vic.
Tins are grooming in agony In the charity
hospital.
Dcath-Roll Likely To lie Larger.
How many of these wounded may be In
the death list zone can tell, for the in
juries In many cases are Internal and
quite unfathomable to the only superficial
medical examination that Is possible now.
All hat surgical science can do Is being
done, and the officials Of the Chicago and
Grand Trunk railway are doing all that
is possible to alleviate the condition Of the
suffering and care for tho needs Of the vic.
tins of the dreadful disaster. The two
trains which met face to face were both
regular trains, although each was con.
siderably behind time. One was q Hay.
mond and Whitcomb special train return
ing from the Worlds fair and bound for
New York and Boston, and the other
was the regular Pacific express westbound
train.
The Raymond and Whitcomb was run
ming as an extra section Of q regular train
and was therefore a regular" in the
phraseology of the railroad men. The en-.
gineer Of the latter train had positive Or
ders to side.track for the express at q sid
ing a mile east OF this city. He ignored
these orders and 600 feet beyond this sid
ing he met the eastbound train full on.
Both trains were wrecked and half the
train OF the Pacific express was demol-
ished and burned. The Raymond and
Whitcomb train, being composed almost
entirely Of heavy sleepers, escaped serious
injury. The engineers and firemen OF both
trains jumped in time to save their lives.
1t was on the Pacific express that the hor-
rors took place.
The day coaches in the front part of this
train were telescoped and burned, and Of
the twenty.six human corpses recovered
couiocturaa op1v cau ha mazda na IN fha
identity of six. Twenty remain entirely
unidentified. Those identified by letters
or articles In their clothing or by other
means are Ms follows: G. G. Van Dusen.
OF Sproutbrook, n. Y, died at the hopital;
Mrs. c. G. Ven Dusen, of Sproutbrook, n.
Y, burned to death after the wreck and
before she could be extricated; w. W.
Henry, Of Woousocket, II. J., burned to
crisp; Mrs. +. X. Mckenzie, Of Middletown,
Conn, burned to crisp; L. A. McGarvey, Of
Ontario, Canada, mangled and burned to
death; j. w. B~eardsley, OF Watkins, N.
Y, burned and mangled. The coroner
has numbered each Of the bodies now in
the morgue c~onsecutively and noted the
articles that have been found on each
body that might lead to Identification.
People Taken to tile Hospital.
The injured were conveyed to the
Nicholas Memorial hospital in this city.
The following is the complete list: w. A.
Ryerse, Port Dover, Ont, leg and shoulder
hurt; Mrs. Henry Bushnell, Brockport,
Monroe county, N. Y, badly bruised about
body; +. II. Smith, Fort Plain, N. Y, leg
badly bruised, right leg and thigh broken,
left leg amputated below knee-expected
to die; j. Harvey Smith, Fort Plain, N. Y.
father of Il. II. Smith, left side severely
bruised; Mrs. j. Harvey Smith, For,
Plain. N. Y, leg broken; Nellie L. Smith
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Harve,
Smith, bruised generally about the heat
and body, bones extracted from left foot
Belle Williams, Brockport. N. Y, RICH
ankle broken; Fred Wurtx, Rochester. NY
left side bruised and legs injured; EvelyI
Wurtx, Rochester, N. Y. left arm ant
collar bone broken, side punctured severe
ly by corset steels; Frank Turn, Middl
Smithfeld. Pa, back sprained, right knee
cap frightfully torn and left leg bruised
j. G. Stewart, Dalton Station, Cook coun
ty, ILL.,, badly bruised; Jennie Stewart
Dalton, Ill.,, II years old, daughter Of j. {
Stewart, left arm broken; William Thomp
son, Woodstock, Ont, head bruisedi Franz
Rogers, Woodstock, Ont, left hand IN
iured; Mrs. Robert Vance, Simcoe, Ont.
both legs broken; George Vance, Simcoe
Ont, IA years old, son Of Mrs. Rober
Vance, severely bruised, Albert Brad
ley, Toronto, Ont, left leg crushe
and subsequently amputated below knee
and middle toe on right foot also ampu
tated; George Shockleton. Albany, N. Y
fingers OF right hand cut; James 5. Arch
beld, Evanston, Ills, right ankle mashed
Ezekiah Davidson, Fairport, N. Y, bac
sprained aud head bruised; Charlie
Beardsley, Springfield, Mass. left ankl
sprained; s. II. Baldwin, Milford, Conn
right leg cut and head bruised; e. Z
Adams, Buffalo, N. T., left hand injure'
Clinton ii. Ward. Moontown, VT, 'rioi
hand cut; II. w. Williams, Toront
Canada, injured badly through hips an
feet lacerated; J. II. Smith, lngersol, Ont
stomach, back and head hurt.
The orders to the engineer and conduct'
OF the Raymond and Whitcomb trai
were explicit, could not have been misu'
derstood aud were not. Both Engine
Henry Wooley and Conductor Scott adm
this. Wsoley says the conductor told hi
at the time his engine was coupled to Il
train that No. u had gone by-that he W