St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-21
INTO A LIVING HE'LL.
TWenty-SiX Eodies Taken
From Burning Cars.
TWERTY-SERER OTHER KcTIMS
Are Groaning in Agony in
Battle Greeks Hospital.
GREATEST RAILROAD HGRR0R
In Michigan History on the
Grand Trunk Road.
GREATEST RAILROAD HGRROR
LIST or TIE. GEAD AID ONEG.

LIST OF T:E. GEAD hHJ OFiRG.
BATTLE CREEK. Aiich.. Oct. 20.-The
error ot ne human heiug-Of man
Who crrUcheS atfr.-tted Ike a hunted
aui.na! III d pri>1u cell tOnIght-Ied TO
the greatest raj road holocaust in the
history of Aich4gan today, and twenty
SIX human lives have paid the penalty
OF the moments negligence. Two trains,
bnth laden with passengers, met iii a
direct head-on collision on the Grand
Trunk railroad at 5:4j this morning i'll
the suburbs of this city, and that the
number OF dead and injured was not
four-fod greater is due to the fortunate
fact that the collision occurred in the
suburbs of a ely instead of in the open
country, where both trains would have
been running at full speed. As
il is, twenty-.iX charred, disfigured
and unrrcO- O-Aizanle bodies he in
the morgue tonight, and tWen-
ty- seven married and bleeding
victims are grOaning in agony in the
Charity hospital. How many of those
Wuunded may ne in the death list TO-
morrow no one can tell. for the injuries
in many eases are internal and quite
uniathomdDie to the only superficial
medical examination that is possible
now. All that surgical science can do
is being done, and the officials of the
Chicago Il Grand Trunk railroad are
doing III that is possible to alleviate the
condition of The suffering and care for
the needy victims of the dreadful dis
aster. Tre TWO Trans which met face
TO face While going at Il rapid rate of
speed this morning were both regular
trans, although each was considerably
b.Eind time. One was a Raymond Il
WhitcO MO special train returning from
the worlds fair and bound for New
YORK aud Boston, and the other was the
regular Pacific Express west-bound
tram. The Raymond " WhitcomO was
running as an extra section Of a regular
train and was therefore regular in
that pnraseolCgy OF
THE RAILROAD MEN.
The engineer of the latter train has
positive orders TO side-track for the eX-
press at siding a mile east of this city.
lie ignored these orders and 600 feet be-
yOnd this siding he met tho eaSt-bound
tram full on. Both trains were wrecked
ana hal, the train of the Pacific express
was demolished and burned. The Ray
mond u Whitcomb express being COM
posed almost entirely of heavy SleeperS,
escaped serious injary and none of the
eXcursioniSts lost their lives. The en-
gInecrs and iremen of both trains
jumped in time to save their lives, but
twenty six passengers of the Pacific eX-
press met almost instant death. The
day coaches in the front part of this
train we're teescoped and burned and
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. Those
identified 10y letters or articles in their
clothing or by other means are as fol-
lows:
VAN DUSEN, c. c., of Sproutbrook,
n. Y, died at the hospital.
VAN DUSEN. Mrs. G. c., of SDrout-
brook, \. Y, burned to death after the
wreck and before she could be extri-
Gated.
HENRY, w. W.. of Woonsocket, r.
l., burned to crisp.
M'KENZIE, Mrs. F. R., of Middle
ton. Conn. burned to a crisp.
M'GARNEY, L. A, of Toronto, Can
ada, mangled and burned to death.
BEARDSLEG, j. W.. of Watkins, n.
Y, burned and nangled.
The coroner has numbered each Of the
Twenty-Five bodies now in the morgue
consecutiyely and noted the articles
that have been found on each body that
might lead to identification. Relatives
and friends telegraphing from dis
tance as to the identity of the remain:
should mention the number of the body
in order that the proper record may bC
MADE by the coroner and mistake:
avoided in forwarding the remains.
The cOroner's official list of the re.
mains unknown now at the morgue i!
as follows:
No. Male, hunting spectacles, two
blank books, bottle of pills, railroad
ticket, pocketbook containg S64 il
money, and paper marked E. j. Mogon
Providence. r. l.; silver open-faceC
watch and pocket-knife.
No. 2-Female, burned to a crlsp: n,
clothing.
No. 3 - Boy, red hair. pocketbook
chatelaine watch, handkerchief witt
red border, short pants and long stock
ings'
No. 4-W. w. Henry, of Woonsockel
R. l., of firm Of Sherdon & Henry, lum
Der dealers, railroad tickets, bushes
cards, etc.
No. 5-Male, silk handkerchief marke,
ct" black suit, statement on pape
from John Monroe, banker, of New
York. to Charles E. Verde, also note il
German from Charles Wenzels to DR.
Howard E. Vance.
n. G-Male, jack knife, horn handle
pockstbook and silver watch; brow
pants. old-fashioned flap; money on pei
son. thirty-two English coins, gold spec
tacles, silk scarf handkerchief with II
g." in old Engrish letters.
No. male. ITO pounds, charred be
yond recognition.
No. - Woman, weight about 16
pounds, chain bracelet, pair black XII
gloves, handkerchief with name T. r
Mckenzie; package of rubbers in pape
marked Middletown, Conn: red plus
cloak, gold chain in leather case; hand
elenched and terrible expression c
pain on face. Letters on person nd
dressed 10 Mrs, G, r, KenZie from Mrs