The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-28

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1t is understood that the engineer and
conductor OF No. 1 received similar
order at Montpelier, Ohio, but il so these
orders were disregarded.
II 1t develops that the orders issued
to both trains were to the same end,
1t Is considered that the responsibility
Tor the disaster rests wholly with the
engineer and conductor Of the east-bound
continental limited.
Many OF the ourned bodies cannot be
identified. Only six bodies have actual
~ been recovered. A small pile of crisp,
Dlackened fragments that covered two
stretchers was all that could be found
Of the others.
Bleak and Deserted.
The scene Of the holocaust presented
. bleak and deserted APPEARANCE this
morning.
Strewn along both sides of the track
for 500 feet were carwheels, brakebeams
and such other parts of the wrecked
trains as would not burn.
Engines SO and 600, were lying in the
ditch on the right hand of the road
ready for the scrap heap.
Broken car seats, many of them daubed
with blood Of their last occupants, were
scattered about and being used as
cushions by those huddled around the
open fires.
Farmers for miles around drove to the
scene of the collision this morning. a
majority Of them bringing their wives
and families.
After viewing the debris scattered
along the track they would walk through
the fields to the house, where Gioronna
Tolonaroties, one of the emigrants who
escaped from burning car, was tossing
on a bed and muttering in his native
tongue.
Six Cars Burning.
When the first relief train arrived last
night from Adrian, six of the cars in
train No. 13 were burning so fiercely
that the relief party could not get with
in several hundred feet of them.
They were the baggage cars, the emil
grant cars, two coaches and a chair car
There was nothing to do but to wait
until the fire burned itself out.
1t was past midnight before a search
OF the ruins Of the burned cars could be
begun. AS soon as the heat had sub
sided sufficiently, scores of men began
delving in the mass.
1t was slowly turned over and small
crisp pieces of those who had perish ed
In the flames were occasionally found
The largest portion of any body found
was terribly burned trunk.
Reduced to Powder.
The heat had been so intense that the
cars and their human freight had been
reduced to a blackened powder that
was blown about by the breeze.
Inside Of two hours the iron work of
the cars had all been hauled into the
ditch at either side of the road.
The first relief party on the scene ar
rived from Adrian 55 minutes after the
accident, and they Immediately began
work on the second coach of Train No.
I. which had been telescoped by the COL
lision and reduced to splinters.
The wreck Of the coach was jammed
into space hardly IA feet square. From
the ruins Of the cars the bodies Of four
men and one woman were pulled out.
Train No. s, which was waiting on the
side track at Sand Creek, was run up to
the scene as soon as the accident was
reported there, and on this train prac-
tically all the injured from the west
bound train were loaded and started for
the company's hospital at Peru, Ind.
A relief train from Montpelier took
more of the injured from the eastbounGl
train and also started for Peru with
them.
Loaded Onto Cars.
At 3 o'clock the bodies of the dead.
with the human fragments that had
been dug out from the burning cars.
were loaded aboard a car and taken to
the Enorgue at Adrian.
The body Of Fireman Calvin Baltler
was discovered jammed into the wrecked
cab OF his engine, No. Isl. He had been
in the act of feeding the furnace when
the two trains came together.
At O'Clock the wreckers removed the
last piece of wreckage from the tracks
1t was Engine 151.
Although considerably warped and
bent. its wheels were still true enough
SO that they kept the track after the