Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-28
Historic Ashtabula Disaster Equalled on the Wabash
Line Near Adrian, Michigan.
THE DEATH LIST WILL REACH ONE HUNDRED
Confusion Of Orders Causes Most Disastrous Railway Wreck IN
Recent Years.Cars Take Fire and Bodies OF Victims
Burned to Cinders Before They Could BE
Rescued-Graphic Description.

Detroit, Nov 2s.-The latest estimat
pf the dead in the Wabash wreck nea
Adrian, Mich, is between eighty an
hunderd dead and 125 injured. Twenty
f,te OF the latter have probably dice
making the catastrophe equal to tn
Ashtabula horror. OF the dead fifty ar
Italian immigrants. west-bound on trai
xhfrteen. Following is partial list
the dead:
william D. Dowd, fireman No. ls.
Cal Baldorf, Ashley. fireman Of No. i
James Brown. porter.
Endell. Detroit.
George N. Youmans. Kansas City.
Job Mitchell, Detroit.
vida Decas. Tupperville. Ont.
The injured:
II. B. whitney. Grand Rapids.
r. b. Richardson. Detroit
Mary Dalman, Detroit.
Sam ]. Work, engineer No. 1s.
Mariana Ponetta.
Nicholas. Tooga county. N. Y.
Antonio Forne.
Glocoma Bellino.
silvestro Tribuel.
Pietra Sacramento
Domeeo Norranti.
Pasquale znmpfara
Carlo strampolli.
virgutro luce.
Domenco Posterero.
Johanne Lobitz.
f. w. Pierce.
Frank Bielder, Baltimore. Md.
Salts Rock. Burnside. Ill.
Louis Shoemaker Adrian, Mich. -
Victor Gohn. st. Paul.
Jessie Williams, Detroit.
George F. White, New York.
Thomas Crehan, Buffalo.
winifred Crehan, Batavia.
D. Baneard, Logansport. Ind.
Mrs. N. 8. stringe, Belleville, Mich.
c. E. Smith, Detroit.
Moulteris Gregg, Joplin, Mo.
n. e. Gillen, Fairburn, N. H.
II. c. Whelney, Grand Rapids.
g. w. Sweeney, Detroit.
6. F. Carroll. Tonawanda. N. Y.
Alemila Coleon, Colorado.
Ars. Joseph Jaksa, Globesville, Colo.
Katharine Plut, Denver, Colo.
Anna Krasov. Denver.
In the list Of injured is the name Q
Mary Williams. Sioux City, Iowa, an
g. q. Mead. Clear Lake, Iowa.
The west bound train wa. known a
No. Is, and was a regular, which, be
sides Its regular coaches, had severa
coaches filed with Italian immigrant
going west from New York. The east
bound train was known as No. 4, con
tinental limited. It is vestibuled trair
consisting Of a baggage car. combina
tion coach and sleeper. The cause Q
the wreck was a miss-reading OF order
oy Engineer Strong, OF the continenta
limited. The order. it is claimed. rea
Pass at Seneca" but Strong under
stood 1t to read "Sandcreek." The con
ductor OF the train did not know tha
the engineer had misunderstood the or
der and supposed his train was going O
tie siding. Finding the train runnin
rapidly the conductor put on the al
brakes himself, but 1t was too late. TIL
two trains crashed together and the car
on the west-bound train crumpled up i
= heap Of ruins.
& Engineer Strong stated in positiv
terms to the Associated Press that hi
order directed him to pass train No
and (the latter closely followed No. !
from Detroit at Sand Creek. Sal
Strong:
II saw the headlight Of No. 13 four G
five miles before the collision occurred
but supposed the train was side-track
ed at Sand Creek waiting for us to pas
The glare Of the powerful electric head
light made it impossible to see the ex
act location Of the other train. My fire
man and / both jumped from the righ
hand gangway."
n Strong and his fireman were bot
hurled 300 feet, but altho scratched, GU
and terribly Jared. they We're not seri
ously injured. The immigrants an
other passengers on train 13 We're crush
ed between the splintered cars. II an
escaped without injury it will be cor
ssdered miracle. To add to the horro
the wreckage caught fire instantly, an
an short time the bodies OF the dea
and thoee OF the injured who were pir
ned down were being burned. Farmer
from the neighborhood and those VIII
escaped from the wreck alive made hel
soic efforts to rescue the less fortunat
The condition Of the wreck was sue
49, = the darkuess II was imposstbl