The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-09
AN AWFUL RAILROAD WRECK. Nine Killed and Many Injured on the
 Chicago and Northwestern.

Escanaba, Mich, Feb. S.-Chicagt
 and Northwestern passenger train No
 21, known as the Felch Mountain ac.
 commodation, which runs between thif
 city and Metropolitan, was wrecked il
 rear-end collision with a freight train
 at Ford River swith at 6:30 o'clock to.
 night. Nine persons were killed, three
 are reported missing, five seriously and 1 four slightly injured
 The dead are: w. L. Hill, baggage
 man of the accommodation train; Will liam Dillon brakeman on the accommo- dation train; Miss Seymour, Section P
 Michigan; Charles Martin, Escanaba civil engineer; George R. Black, Esca-
 naba, civil engineer; Samuel Greene,
 Negaunee, agent of the Upper Peninsu-
 la Brewing company; two unknown men; unknown woman, body charred
 beyond recognition.
 The injured: B. w. Brown, Escana- ba, Cedar merchant; believed to be fa- tally; Mrs. Seymour section F. burn ed and internally injured; Theodore De Ford, Hardwood, Michigan, fatally in jured; Richard Roberts, Escanaba, con- ductoi of accommodation train, leg smashed; Peter Legg, Escanaba, slight ly injured; James Green, Escanaba, en- gineer of freight train No. 2S9, hurt in jumping; Cole Nee, fireman of freigha train No. 2S9 hurt in jumping. Four passengers, who refused to give their rames, were slightly injured.
 Three passengers are reported to be missing and their bodies are supposed to be under the burning wreckage, but their names could not be ascertained.
 Fast freight train No. 2S9, north bound from Green Bay to Ishpeming, was making about fifty miles an hour when it passed Narenta for Ford River switch, seven miles west of this city. The engine was forging ahead through binding snow storm, which made it impossible to see signal lights except short distance ahead. When within one hundred yards of the switch at Ford River, Engineer James Green saw the rear lights of train directly ahead and with a warning cry to his fireman, Cole Nee, jumped.
 The next instant the heavy freight struck the passenger coach of the ac- commodation and telescoped it and the baggage car ahead. The dozen or more passengers in the car had not a mo- ment's warning before the crash came and a moment later the cries of the ,in- jured could be heard above the roar of escaping steam and cracking flames which soon enveloped tlle wrecked cars and made the work of rescue doubly hard. The injured were taken to store a short distance away while the train crews fought desperately, assisted by the uninjured passengers to gain con- tro of the fire, which threatened the destruction of the wreck before all the injured could be removed.
 A call for assistance was sent to this city and at 7:15 o'clock a relief train the local officials of the road and eight | physicians in charge of Dr. c. D. Booth | the company's surgeon. Immediately | upon their arrival the work of rescue l was rushed with renewed energy, and | 1t 10 o'clock 1t was announced that all | the injured had been removed. The | bodies of the three unknown men and | Lrainmen are still wedged in the burn ng car.
 At Il o'clock the relief train returned | 70 this city and was met by crowd of | Only the most seriously in ured were brought on this trip, and hese were at once conveyed to the county hospital in ambulances. A fresh ,rew of men and physicians was at ,nce dispatched to the wreck on the special train, and, with the assistance If the wrecking crew, the work of clear nd 1 bodies will be resumed.