The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-22
NAMES OF TEN KNOWN
Several Victims Of the Battle
Greek Horror Identified.
One of the Injured Added to the Death
List-The Accident to Be Thor
Oughly Investigated.

\ BATTLE CREEK, Mlcn, Oct. LII. ii.
Smith, one of the passengers injured in
1 the Grand Trunk wreck here yesterday
morning, died late last night. 1t is not be-
| lieved that there will be any more deaths.
| The physicians report all the injured doing
we'll
| The coroner this afternoon discharged
the jury drawn yesterday because of pub
| lie criticism over the accident and the
| fact that one Of the members of the jury
was a brother-in-law of the superintend-
| ent of the road and another one was at
| torney for the railroad. Another jury was
! impaneled this afternoon. The coroner has
notified the division superintendent that
| he expects the presence of all men who
| had anything to do with the accident at
the inquest on Monday, an5 the superin-
| tendent says that he will see that they
| are all present Investigation by the rail-
| road authorities shows that the wreck
! took fire from the stove instead of from
| oil lamps.
A telegram was received to-day by
| Father Sadler, from Toronto, asking about
Rev. Father Clark, of Brantford, Ont,
who was known to be travelling on the
train. The telegram described the missing
priest as being short slight, dark hair,
front tooth filled with gold dark overcoat,
The bodies were in such condition that the
priest was unable to identify the he
sought. When he was met on the stair
way, after an attempt to find what was
left on earth of his brother, great beads
of perspiration stood on his brow His
face was drawn and he was suffering
from the deepest aff1ction. He said: 81
am afraid it's USE 1 shall ask for a
better description by wire, and then make
another attempt" The relatives of Peter
Mcdonald, Of Rochester, n. Y, think he
was burned in the fire.
complete list Of the bodies identified is
as follows:
MRS. ALBERT BRADLEY, Sarnia, Can
ada.
J. w. BEARDSLEY, Atkins, N Y
w. w. HENRY, Woonsocket, r. I.
z. !. MACON, Providence, r. l.
MRS. +. r. MCKENZIE, Middletown,
Conn.
FRANK H. SMITH, Fort Plain, N Y.
T. r. STRINGER, Port Dover, Canada.
CHARLES w. VAN DUSEN, Sprout
Brock, n. Y.
MRS. CHARLES w. VAN DUSEN.
Sprout Brook, n. Y.
MRS. A. K. WARNER, Garland, N V.
OF this number seven have been shipped
home to-day. They are: ]. W. Beardsley,
r. Stringer, Mr.. and Mrs Van Dusen and
Mrs. A. X. Warner. A list of the injured
who have gone to their homes is as fol-
lows: John C. Stewart, wife and daughters.
of Dalton, ILL.,; T. j. Monroe and George
Shackleton, of Auburn, n. Y; j. S. Archi-
bell, of Evanston, ILL.,: w. A. Ryerse, of
Port Dover. Ont, and c. F. Adams. of
"At Rest" That is the simple inscription
on the silver plate on each of the collins
that hold the remains of the burned victims
The undertakers are acting entirely under
the direction of the coroner in the dispose
ficials have notified them that they will pay
all expenses, and everything that should be
done under the circumstances will be DONE
Last night twenty-seven collins were
ordered by telegraph, and they arrived by
express this morning.
named James G.. Workman, of No. All East
Eightieth street, New York, the son of
Amelia Workman, a widow James was
only twelve years old, and was travelling
with his sister Annie, who is also missing.
One of the mangled bodies, numbered
day as that of E. r. Strirger, of Port Col
borne Ontario. l.. Wilson, of Evanston,
ILL.,, whose scorched handbag was found In
the debris and who was supposed 10 nave
persisted, telegraphed from home that he
had arrived there with no further injury
than a sprained foot: He left the car in
which he was travelling before 1t was
wrecked, and so escaped death.
Conductor John Burke, of rain No. 3,
which was wrecked, is lying at ms nom, nome
in Port Huron in a precar1ouS CONDITION.
His leg is not broken, as at first reported,
but his back is injured and his head Is cut
and bruised, one ear being terrlDiy olsls-
ured Mr. Burke left the tunnel depot two
hours late at 10 O'Clock Thursday night,
and lost time instead of making 1t up. His
train consisted of twelve cars. Il received
orders at Lansing" said he, Ito pass No.
on the double track at Nicholas. l. was In
car No. 1882 the third from the engine,
when the collision occurred. and we were
running at the rate of fifteen miles an
hour. Suddenly, like the crash OF a can
non, the collision occurred. In a fash the
car was upset and quickly filled with
dense smoke from the overturned stove and
lamps. BY hard tussle managed to
break open two windows and CLIMBED out
and dragged woman after me- L took
her to q shanty near by, and was returning
to help others when / realized that l was
hurt and could do nothing more L was
taken to a building near by. think there
were thirty-five people In car NO. lO59, ana
most of them were smothered to death by
tor Scott. of No. g. he added. He has al
ways been careful man. blame engineer
Woolley." ,,oo,,
"I don't think 1T. L know it," replied
Burke Il have been railroading since 49,
and the accident was caused py us
a disoatch from Lansing says: Railroad
Commissioner Billings is going to order an
Investigation of the Battle Creek wreck at
once, with special reference TO the question:
"What set the cars afire?" He thinks the
car stove is largely responsible for the
fire and terrible loss of life. The statutes
of the State provide that railroad COM
panies are to heat their cars by general
ing the heat for warming the cars outside
and independent of said cars or by the use
of heaters in the cars, so constructed that.
in case of an accident ii will be practically
impossible for the fire to escape from the
stove or heater so as to set fire TO the cars
or provided with some automatic or quickly
and easily operated provision for extin-
gushing the fire, and when the heat is
generated outside of the cars heaters con-
structed as provided for in this section may
be retained within for use in case of emer-
gencies" The Railroad Commissioner has
power to order removed any heating de-
vice that he believes dangerous. Mr.. Bill
lings condemns conductor Scott and
gineer Woolley severely. He believes them
both to blame for the collision. Governor
Rich expressed himself very strongly on the
collision at Battle Creek Said he: 81 have
no doubt that the responsibility lies with
the engineer and conductor of the east
bound train.
Circus Employees Injured.
CLARKSBURG, w. Va, Oct. PA rear