Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-10-27

Cannot POSSIBLY ~ Identified.
Nearly Two Score Badly Injured
The Terrible Wreck Caused by a
Conductor Disobeyiux Orders.
Battle Creek. Mich, Oct pa most
shocking accident occurred about Il
o'clock this morning in the yards of
the Chicago and Grand Trunk railroad,
close by the roundhouse in this city,
by which 1t least twenty-five persons
lost their lives and twice as many
more were injured
y Raymond and WhitcomD special
tram OF passengers from New York
and boSton was returning from Chi
cage. The train was in charge of Con
ductor Scott of this city and Engineer
NoH.or. and took orders ut this sta
ton TO meet at Nichols, No. O. the Pa
c...1 express going west due ut this
station At l:3J O'clock this morning.
but which was three hours late. The
conductor or engineer, or both, of the
Raymond special, disoheyed orders
and passed Nichols ste ton and col
lidel with the Pacific express. coming
west at the rate of about thirty miles
IN hour.
The two engines were driven into
each other and are tot;l. wreck The
engineers and 1iremcn when they saw
that Il collision was inevitable shut off
steam, reversed engines, put on brakes
and all jumped and escaped without
serious injury. Conductor Burke, of
the Pacific express, was badly hurt
by being caught in the car
When the collision took place the
second and third day coaches on No 9,
the train going west, were completely
teleScoped. The horrible sacrifice took
place when the second coach cut
throught he third coach like Il knife
and the roof passed over the heldS Of
the sleeping Inflated passengers. The
engine and baggage car on the special
were badly wrecked, but the cars be-
ing sleepers and the train moving
slowly, they escaped serious injury,
and no one OH the train was seriously
injured
The Pacific express was made up of
thirteen day coaches and four Of them
tclescoped and burned up, catching fire
from the lamps in the car
The passengers in all the four
coaches were more or less injured and
i'll one of them. No. Is, called the un-
lucky coach, which had been in several
accidents before, there were twenty
five dead bodies taken from the wreck
this morning by the fircmcn.
They were pinched Under seats and
damned up against the end Of the
coach, Whoch had tclcscopcd it and
then burned them like rats i'll Il trap.
OF the tWenty-siX human remains
at The mOrgue tonight conjectures can
only be made as to the identity of six.
Twenty remain entirely unidentified
The identified are the following: =
G. G. VAN DUSEN, Sprotbrook, y.
Y, died in the hospital
MRS. G. G. VAN DUSEN, Sprot-l
brook, n. Y, burned to death after the
wreck and before she could be eXtri-
Gated.
w. w. HENRY, of Woomsocket,
Rhode Island, burned to q crisp
MRS. Il. Il. MI<ENZlE, Middleton,
Conn, burned to q crisp
II. A. MCCARTNEY, of Ontario, Cana
da, mangled and burned to death
J. w. BEARDSLEY. of Watkins \
Y, burned and mangIod
The coroner has numbered each body
now in the mors11e and noted articles
found Oh each that MIGHT lead to |
cnmnleto Lief of tbo ;ninro5 o.. ,o
nortod NJ Aesist,,t c,,no,;,,to,1o,,+
(1,ssfords office ,t Dotroit &c.
TT IT U4Ilioms rornntl
william Henry Is,Shnou Rro.Lno,.+
n. Y
s TT Smith
III Smi+b
Israel smith
BERRY smith /
Mrs Smith
Ali of Port Plain. n. Y
Miss Belle Williams. Brockport, n. Y.
Frederick Wertz Rochester. N. Y.
Mrs. Wertz and Miss Wertz Rocbest-
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c. G.. Van D1sen Snrot Brook Y V
since died.
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