The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28
Eighty Dead, 100 Injured.

DETROIT. Mich, Nov. 2s--The latest re-
ports from Adrian are TO the effect that
there are eighty dead and $50 injured. of
which twenty-five cases are serious. Fifty
of the eighty dead were killed outright.
Among the injured are:
L. LLOYD, Kempton. N. D.. head badly
injured.
VICTOR COHEN. ST. Paul, Minn., in
jured on head.
FRANK r. BIEDLIN. Baltimore. left
arm broken.
II. W. GREIS. Joplin, Mo, serious.
f. E. SMITH, Detroit, slight.
GEORGE P. PFEFFER, Detroit. not
serious.
w. E. GILLEN, jumped from smoker
window with four others and cut seriously.
- ELLARDEL, porter, slight.
S. MLEMORA, porter, slight.
MRS. NJ. L. CHREION, Buffalo.
MRS. RICHARD, residence unknown,
slight
GEORGE S. ELLIOTT, South sebel, Mo-,
not serious.
VICTOR GREENBAUM, New York.
slightly.
H. C. WHITNEY. Grand Rapids.
WALTER GREIG. Joplin. Mo-. badly
hurt about head.
f. A. PALMER, conductor of the parlor
car, got out all right.
MRS. NJ. E. STRINGER, Bellevue, Mich,
spine injured. skull fractured, may die.
SALLA SOCK, Burnside. ILL.,, slight.
LOUIS SHOEMAKER, Adrian, Mich, hip
injured.
JESSIE WILLIAMS. Detroit. Mich, back
and hip hurt.
GEORGE T. WHITE, New York, serious
THOMAS CREHAN, Buffalo, leg injured
WINIFRED CREHAN, Batavia, ". Y,
slight.
ID. BARNARD. Logansport, Ind, in
ternally injured.
ANNA KASOv. Denver. Col. injured
about head
KATHERINE PLUT. Denver, slight.
MRS. JAMES JACKS, Globeville, Col
slight.
S. F. CARROLL. Tonawanda. N. Y. bad
ly bruised.
AMELIA COLON, Colorado, Slight
G. w. SWEENEY, Detroit, bruised about
head and legs.
MRS. DoNIvAN. of Chicago. is among
the rescued.
Engineer Strong, of the limited, makes
the following statement: 81 was running
sixty-five miles an hour when 1 saw light
on No. 13. 1 shut down to fifty miles.
jumped. so did my fireman. The first car
was strong and was not smashed. The
second collapsed, and not soul escaped :"
William Sterns, editor of the Adrian
Press, who had just returned from the
wreck at 2:30 o clock this Thursday morn
ing, telephoned to the Associated Press
that the of the disaster was the
misreading of his orders by Engineer
Strong, of the Continental limited. The
order read Pass at Seneca, but Strong
understood IL to read Sand Creek. The
conductor of the train read the order
rightly. He did not know the engineer
had misunderstood it, and supposed that
his train was going on a siding. Finding
the train was running rapidly, the con-
ductor put on the air brakes himself, but
he was too late and just then the engineer
set the brakes to try to avert the force of
the collision The engineers leg broken
and he was otherwise injured. Seven dead
were taken out of one car of the Cont
mental limited. All these on that train
who were killed were the car between
the smoker and dining car
The night is cold and there Is but one
farmhouse adjacent to the scene, there was
but little shelter for the sufferers Mat
ters are in an extremely chaotic condition
and there are scarcely any facilities for
identifying the dead, and the railroad will
not permit the use of it's wires the only
ones available for carrying the news.
Among the known dead are:
JAMES BROWN, porter, Detroit
JOB WITCHELL, shoe manufacturer,
Detroit.
f. n. DENELL, Detroit.
GEORGE w. YEOMAN, capitalist, Kan
| sas City.