Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-07-18
STRUCK BY a TRAIN
Thsss P~.0os Killed and Nine
S,nousIy Injured.
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CalcAao. July n-Fosty ninth street.
ct tho crossing Il the Grand Trunk
railroad. vas the scene today q snoshes
acci3ient whereby three hves usrs lost
and many people injured. A Halxts<l
street horse car was <un into &nst
h1sIed thirs, sse. 10 one side. Ifwas
n led with msn and women. forty six
passengers being On board
The dead are. Thomas Perkins. Mar.
gares Murphy. unidentified boy.
The inlared. Mrs. Mary vandcrbech.
face cut snd internally Injured, rrrs
srrioas, bra1k Nsntefbsek. her 3yezf.
Old -oa. body bruised; Jennie BLACK Of
Davidson station. Michigan. soap cut
snd hsser lax broken; William BuhI.
man. left leg broken and bscls
injured. Emma sandersoD. heal
and face bruised and internsly
inluret j. T. Smith. skull fractured,
left arm broken and Injured internally;
may ttie Mary Nc.Alion- back and hip
bruised aud inisrns u injured. Mira >.
A. Lace. bruised aboSt heasl. face ard
body. Celia Mitchell. head and body
trui@sd
Nov the Collision Occurrc<i
The collision occurred about $50
o'cioex The south bound Halsfesi street
car. she open maze. was crowded AMI
men were standing on foot boards In
vas In charge Il Conductor Frank bar.
neft and Driver Charles Stalnscker. At
Forty ninth street - network of tracks
and the crossing has always been n,
gsrdcd a. a dangerous one. A long
freight train going west had Just passed
and the tower man. George Barnett
had raiscd the gates This was
ta<en as sigma that the way was clear
and staluecker whipped up his horses
a. he started % drive across the trackA
Previously. however. Conductor Barnett
had gone ahead and Was not able 20 ssc
the approaching passenger train bss
cause ~ The freight. he motioned his
driver tu So ahead. Barnett in the
watch tower saw the passenger train
and realized that collision was immi-
renf Yet. "a hc says. hs could do moth
Ing. He at once lowered the gates. but
he was too late for the street car was
already on the tracks and the passenger
train was oriy fox fees distant. II
was running az lively rate of speed. IL
Is said. and crashed into the side Of the
car.
1oxpWm lUtgtv ECcs-
The latter was turned and then was
thrown thirty feet through the air. Fex
OF the passengers has. any warning of
the accident. Those on the footboarsl
nearest the passenger train saw IL com
ing and jumped IN time To save them
SELVES from injury and perhaps death.
But the majority of fhoae on board were
carried with the demolished car and
they tell "a the ground together, ~,me
" lth badly bruised bodies and others
dead. Tho car. broken into many
psecus. buried those who hail beer ri,i
ing IN IL. and as the passenger
train plunged ahead there ues. many
cries II pain and agony 10 be heari
Perkins and Dillon were frighffuny
uanglcd. 4 piece Of timber had been
forced down the latter throat, breaking
his jaw. There were also two women
killed. but nothing on either would in
dicsts their names. The dead were ut
once taken 10 the county morgue and
The injured we're placed in carriages ard
driven away. The passenger train Wis
IN charge - Conductor John Kern
Engtneer h. ". Jones and Fireman
james taapbeil- Engineer Jones sad
that he did not see the street car until
the horses we're in front IL the train. ard
that he could not posssbly have stopped
,n time To- avert the accident
Police Captain Ward arrested Ensi
neer Jones. Fireman Campbell and n
man named Henry Hughes. who was
riding in the cab q the engine. They
viii De hsisi az the station until after
the cOrOners : inquest