The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-10-28
FATAL DISOBEDIENCE.
It Resulted in a Terrible Holocaust
in Michigan.
TwBETY-EIGHT LOST THEIR LIVES

worlds Fair EHoursionists In a Deadly
Crash, with Firs 90 Ada 70 The Horrors
81 ths Uatastrophs-Ths Heroic Death
81 Mre van Dussn.
BATTLR CREEK. Mich, Oct o1.--Twenty.
six heaps Of charrsd, blackened flesh, all
that remains Of what were men, women
and children 10 the enjoyment Of life,
health and happiness, rest upon the hoor
Of an improvised moFgue In the basement
Of furniture store Of this city. mile
away In the city hospital are q soore or
mora Of human beings with gashsd bodies
and broken limbs.
Direct disobedlencs Of orders on the part
Of Chicago and Grand Trunk engineer
and conductor, both Of whom had seen
long service with the company and we're
regarded as model employees, was the
cause Of the tragedy Raymond &
Whitcomb special train Of eight palace
cars, filled with eastern folk who had been
taking In the sights Of the Worlds fair,
left the sixtieth street depot Of the road
At Chicago at sil5 as the frat section OF
the night express. known as No 8 The
train was In charge OF Conductor Burt
n SCOTT aud Engineer Harry Woolley,
both residents OF this place All went
we'll until the Battle Creek depot was
reached This was At 1886 From here TO
the railroad yards. a distance of a mile
and half. there is a double track
When the Whitcomb special came to q
full stop In the depot the night operator
hande TO Conductor Scott two copies Of
an order for the train 10 proceed TO the
double track east Of Main street about a
half mile distant, and there await the
passing Of the west bound Pacific express
known a. No 9. This tr ain, which was
nearly three hourslate. was composed Of
thirteen day coaches and two baggage cars
After receiving orders At the Battle
Creek station Engineer Woolley proceeded
up the double track, but instead OF stop.
ping, In accordance with his instructions,
until the west bound express had passed,
be continued on and entered again on the
single track. He had hardly gone more
than an eighth Of a mile when the head.
light Of the Pacific express was seen com.
ing around the slight curve behind the
telegraph Office OF the railroad yards,
speeding westward at q rate of forty miles
a. hour. There was no time to apply air
brakes or reverse levers The engineers
and hremen Of both trains jumped for
their lives. and q second later the giant
Ags0uAuNANNA hNuAN NOkbAuhE WlNu q NTANu
that could be heard half mile away
With fearful foree the engine Of che
special ploughsd nearly way into that
Of the express, driving It idckwards into
the baggage car. and the latter In turn
into the day coaches behind The shook
was so terrific that the first four Of these
were complete y telescoped. the first coach
cutting the second and the second into the
third like fash Of lightning, the roof Of
each passing over the heads Of the sleeping
passengers aud sweeping in mass to the
north end OF the car.
To add to the horror the wreck took FIRE
from the stoves or lamps, and as the
flames mounted up the groans and shrieks
Of MANNED and injured were succeeded by
beArtrsnding, agonizinR cries and appeals
for help from the scores imprisoned BY the
heavy timbers or held down by the seats
and iron frame work.
There was some delay in summonInR
the firemen. but they quickly responded TO
the alarm.
No pan can describe the last moments Of
Mrs. Charles Van Dusen She succeeded
In getting half way out Of the window,
but her limbs were pinioned by the heavy
framework Of the seat she had been ocou-
pyinE with her husband. and this had
taken hre. Thus held, roasting from the
feet up. she pleaded and begged for the
help shat thosS outside were helpless TO
give. In frantic endeAvor to rescue her
. man pulled OF one Of her handH. De-
spitS her terrible agony she retained con,
ssiOusness to the last, and a. the flames
oFspt up and surrounded her she talled out
her name aud address and that OF friends
70 be notifedi II am . teacher In the
Methodist Sunday school Al Sprout Brook,
| n. "" she cried; say died like = Chris-
NAn.N Then the side OF the car gave way
and she fell back into the flames
Her husband had meanwhile been res
euSd from the next car, into which he had
been driven by the force Of the collision.
Warrants were subsequently, sworn out
charging Woolley and Conductor SCOTT
with mAnEleughteF, Both were arrested
and gave bail for hearing. Each charges
the ether with responsibility
BATTLE CHERK, Mich, Oct. es.-,AlbeFt
X. Bradley, of Toronto, Ont, another Of
the injured in the Grand Trunk wreck,
died here last night. He makes the twenty.
eighth victim
RATTLE CREEK, Mich, Oct. ss.--A sad
mistake has occurred in the Identification
q the bodies taken from the wreck here,
pr. SweStlaRd, Of EdwArdsburgh, Mich,
editor of Tho Argus, identified the hody
Of one Of the victims a. that Of Ais sister
Mrs. EveliRe AldFioh, Of EdwRrdsburg
and the body was shipped TO that place
The coroner has just received a dispatch
from j. d. Wood, Of Cato, n, Y, StstinR
that the body is that of his wife. She wai
identified by both men by her clothing
Both men seem positive, and tits feared
shat legal proceedings will have TO be In
StitutSd before the body can be recovered