Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1893-10-25
WORST THIS YEAR.
WRECK ON TIE GRAND TRUNK
MOST APPALLING.


Twenty->ix. and as Many More Ar
Injured.
BATHS CREEK, Mich, Oct. go
Twenty-six heaps of charred, black
ened flesh, all that remains of what
less than "a hours ago, were men
women and children in the enjoymen
of life, health and happiness, rest upoI
the floor in an imrrovised morgue il
the basement of furniture store IL
this city. A mile away in the city hos
pital are a score or more of human be
ings with gashed bodies and broken
limbs. Add to this an engineer in jail
and conductor fugitive from the
law and the story is told in brief of the
latest of railroad horrors and one OF
the most appalling in its character OF
this or of recent years.
Direct Disobedience of Orders
On the part of Chicago and Grand
Trunk engineer and conductor, both of
whom had seen long service with the
company and were considered model
employees, was the cause of the tragedy.
A RAYMOND excursion train filled with
Eastern folks who had been taking In
the sights of the worlds fair, left the
Sixtieth street depot of the road at
Chicago at 9:l5 rs the first section OF
the night express known as No. 6. The
train was in charge of Engineer Henry
Woolly and Conductor Bert n. Scott,
both residents of this place. All went
we'll until the Battle Creek depot was
reached. This was at 3:37. From here
to the railroad yards, distance of a
mile and half, there is double track
When the Raymond Special
came to full stop at the depot, the
night operator handed to Conductor
Scott two copies of an order for the
train TO proceed to the double track
east of Main street, about half mile
distant, and there await the passing g
of the west bound Pacific express
known as No. O. This train, which
was nearly three hours late, was COM
posed of 13 day coaches and two bag
gage cars. Most Of the day coaches had
seen many years service and were in
Doer condition to Withstand collision,
every one of the fated number was
ma cked with Eastern people, the ma
iori1 of whom, taking advantage. OF
The low rates, were on their way to
tata in the last week of the exposition.
The Pacific express was in charge OF
Engineer Gil Cranshaw and Con-
ductor John Bird, both of whom had
received orders at Lensing to look out
for the eastbound train
On the Double Track.
After receiving his orders at Battle
Creek station, Engineer Woolley pulled
out on the double track, but instead OF
waiting until the westbound express
had arrived, he continued on and en-
tered again the single track. de had
hardly gone an eighth of a mile when
the headlight Of the Pacific express was
eeen coming around the curve. 1t was
speeding westward at the rate OF fully
40 miles an hour. There was no time
to apply air or reverse levers. The
firemen and engineers of both trains
Jumped for their lives and a second
later the giant locomotives
Came Togeth her With a Crash
that could be heard half mile away.
The shock was SO terrific that the first
four cars were completely telescoped,
the first coach cutting through the
second. and the second into the third
like a flash of lightning, the roof OF
each passing over the heads of the
sleeping passengers and sweeping them
in mass to the north end OF the cars.
To add to the horror the wreck took
fire. and as the flames mounted up the
groans and shrieks of the MANNED and
injured were succeeded by the heart
rending, agonizing appeals for help
from the scores imprisoned by the
heavy timbers. The travellers on the
special, nearly all Of whom had been
shaken out of their berths by the shock,
poured out of the cars, but they were
almost powerless to render assistance
to the injured. An alarm of fire was
turned in and the department quickly
responded, but by the time stream OF
water was available the telescoped
coaches were reduced to
Fragments of Charred Timber,
little more than the trucks remaining.
The fremen then commenced the grue-
some work of recovering what re-
mained of the victims, the police taxi
ing charge of the valuables and keep
ing the crowd at distance. In re-
sponse to the alarm from the fire sta
ton pretty nearly the whole town had
turned out and the leading residents,
assisted by their wives, devoted them
selves to those injured in the fourth
car. These were placed in buggies and
carts and taken to the Nichols Home,
where a corps of physicians and nurses
were in waiting to minister to their
sufferings The first body was found
about 6 o'clock and few minutes after
a dozen were discovered in heap
around the stove Of the second car. The
task continued until rs bodies or por-
tions of bodies had Leen brought out.
Five aTore Identified.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Oct. 23.-Fiye
more bodies from the railroad wreck of
Friday have been identified. They are
those Of sIr. and Mrs. Charles SAKE Of
New York city, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver
Doland of Tilsonburg, Ont, and J. j.
Brown OF strathroy, Ont. This makes
IS in all who have been identified. The
coroner's inquest is in progress.
Twenty.eighth Victim.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. Oct. 23.-Al.
bert B. Bradley OF Toronto, another of
the injured in the Grand Trunk wreck,
is dead. His demise sweils the number
of deaths to 28. 2,
DhuIcep Singh Dead.
PARIS, Oct. 1.-The Maharajah Dhu-