Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-10-28
SLAIN In THE NIGHT.
Passenger Trains Collide Near
Battle Creek, Mich.
Twenty-Sevon Persons Killed, Most of
Them Being Roasted to Death and
Surned beyond Identification
Two Score Injured.
WORST OF THE YEAR,

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Oct. 23.-An
east-bound special train from Chicago
collided with train No. 0. the Pacific
express, going west, at 1862 o'clock Fri
day morning in the yards of the
Chicago & Grand Trunk railway.
Twenty-seven persons were killed
and burned and two score i'm
jured Two of the Pacific express
coaches were telescoped and three
burned. The express was made up of
thirteen coaches and from the remains
of coach No 13 twenty-five charred
bodies were taken. The accident was
a mile and half from the city fire sta
ton. The imprisoned passengers were
burned with the wreckage, while
scores of people stood about unable to
lend any assistance. Most of the bodies
recovered are formless cinders.
The train crew on the special, it is
said, disobeyed orders in passing
Nichols Station, where there were
orders to wait on siding for the Pa
| cific express. No element of horror
was absent from the scenes about the
wreck. In the great crash the seats in
the flimsy day coaches closed up like
an accordion. So the imprisoned pas
sengers were burned. Many of the
charred remains will never be iden-
titled.
Following will be found list of the
| known dead
Mr. Archbell, Repon, wis, not fully identi-
fed; j. w. Beardsley, Watkins. n. Y; Mrs. L.
b. Hayes; W. H. Crawley, Port Huron, Mich,
not fully identihed; Rev. Father Bradford
| Yorkshire. not fully Unidentified: John c. Green
wood. Horton Tittlp Nnr rlsshir NOT
| fully identified; WV. Henry, Woonsocliet X L:
| Il. j. Magau, Providence, r l.; Mrs f.. II Nc.
| ken2ie, Middletown, Conn; T. a. Garvey, on.
| tario Can; Frank II. Smith, died at hospital;
William Thompson, Woodstock Ont, not fully
identified; Charles Van Dusen and wife, Sprout
| Brook, n. y; W. L. Wilson, Evanston, H.:
Charles Verde, New York city
The bodies of ten persons, baby, n
boy, three men and five women were
| recognized, but they cannot be identi-
| fed principally because the bodies were
SO terribly burned.
The names of those most seriously
injured are as follows:
Harry j. Archbell, New York; C F. Adams,
| No. $50 Main street, Buffalo, n. Y, left hand
| injured and four fingers badly cut; James s
Archbell Evanston, Ill., ankle and arm
crushed; s II. Baldwin, Milford Conn, right
| leg cut badly, head bruised; c. r. Beardslee
| Springfield, Mass, ankle crushed and badly
| bruised; Alb crt Bradley SarEia, Ont, left leg
| cut on and body bruised; Albert Bradley. To-
ronto, Ont, right leg cut OF and back bruised;
John Burke, conductor train No. o. badly
bruised and ankle disocated; Mrs. Hen.
| rs Bushnell, Brockport, Monroe coun-
ty, n. y; Gil Cranshaw, engineer train
No 9, slightly injured in jumping from cab;
Henry Canfeld, clerk of Grand Trunk, injured
in helping at wreck, slight w p Clark, Sar-
MIA, Ont, badly bruised; H. c. Crawley Port
Huron, Ont, slightly injured; Ezekiel David
SON Fairport n, Y, back bruised and
shoulder dislocated: NJ. l.. CASTOR, Web.
ster, Monroe county, N Y, shoulder
bruised Thomas J. Monroe, Auburn N Y;
Maggie OGrady, Oswego n. Y, right limb
broken and internal injuries Frank Rogers,
Woodsto tock, Ont, arm crushed; w. A. Ryerse,
Port Dover, Ont, leg and shoulder fractured:
George Shaliclton. Albany ~ Y, fingers OF
right hand badly cut and bruised; Il. II. Smith,
Fort Plain, N. " left leg crushed and was am
putated below the knee, right and left legs
fractured, injuries probably fatal; James
Smith, Ingerson, Ont, back and head injured.
hurt internally squeezed and wrenched, con.
tnued his journey west; Mrs. james Smith
Ingersoll, Ont, leg broken; Nellie f.
Smith, ~ years, daughter of j. H. Smith.
head eyes, limbs and feet bruised, bad
" injured some bones broken and taken out of
left foot; 1 c. Stewart, Dalton Station, Cook
county, ILL., seriously bruised; Jennie Stewart
II years old daughter OF the above named, left
arm broken: Frank Turn, Middle Smithaeld
Pa, back bruised and arm crushed: George
Vance, Lincoln, Ont, left leg bruised and in
ternal injuries; Mrs. Robert Vance, Lincoln,
Ont, both limbs crushed and internal injuries:
Clinton H. Ward. Mooretown, VT, right hand
slightly cut; Miss Belle Williams, Brock.
port, N Y, right ankle broken H.
w. Williams, No. Al Ulster street. Toronto,
right foot slightly cut both hips badly in
jured; Evalyn WurtZ, Rochester, ". Y, shoul.
der broken and internal Injuries; Mrs Fred
Wurtz Rochester, ~ Y, body bruised and
ankle dislocated Henry Wooley, engineer
train No. g. back injured; Fred WurtZ Roch-
ester, N. Y, left side bruised both legs injured.
Conductor Scott and Engineer
Wooley, of the Raymond and Whitcomb
special, received orders to meet at
Nichols No. 0, the Pacific express GO
ing to Chicago. Practically the same
orders We're given to the trainmen of
the Pacific express. This train was
due at 1885 a. m, but was nearly three
hours late. The disobedience of orders
upon the part of one crew, if not both,
caused the trains to leave the double
track here and meet upon the single
track in the companys yards,
When the trains met in the deadly
crash the Pacific express was going at
the rate of 30 miles an hour and the
special was somewhat slower, though
Engineer Wooley says that he had
stopped, The engineers and firemen
when they saw collision was inevita-
BILE shut off steam reversed engines, put
on brakes, and all jumped and escaped
without serious injury. The conductor
of the Pacific express was badly hurt
by being caught in the car.
Then the crash came. The two en-
gines were driven into each other and
wrecked, the one on the express being
new Cook engine in use two weeks.
The people in the crowded cars were
sleeping at the time (3:4O o'clock), and
everything WAS dark with the eXcep-
tion of the switchlights and the head
lights of yard locomotives. OF the
special train" the engine and baggage
car were wrecked, but the coaches, be-
ing sleepers and the train moving slow