The sun., 1901-11-29
EIGHTY KILLED IN The WRECK
INJURED NUMBER I25, MANY
or WHOM WILL DIE.
Chicago Passenger on One OF the CoIlidins
Wabash Trains Tells Story of the
Disaster and tho Work OF Rescue
Majority Of Dead We're IinnlKrsnts.

TOLEDO, Ohio. Nov. 2s-The last re-
ports from the scene OF the collision be-
tween the Continental Limited and another
passenger train on he Wabash Railroad
near Seneca, Mich, last night give the num-
Der Of dead rs eighty and Of the injured
as l't. at least twenty-five OF whom will
die. or the dead fifty were Italian im-
migrants.
Engineer Strang Of the Continental
Limited, says he was running sixty-ive
miles an hour when ho saw the light o, the
other train. He shut of his speed TO fifty
miles and jumped and so did his fireman.
Frederick L. Charming OF Chicago
Shore from Adrian, Mich Mr.. Charming
was a passenger ON one Of the trains
In the wreck He SAYS: Il was in the
third coach Of the Continental Limited.
The coach was almost filed with peo-
pie. The crash caino al about twenty
minutes Of 7. With the pressure of
the air brakes, all the occupants were
half lifted from their seats Then came
the roar-the indescribable tearing and
crunching sound Of the forward end of
our coach as IL was raised In the air.
The next instant We were piled in a heap.
Broken glass rained upon US. Women
screamed In agony and men. too. ] had
fallen between two seats and ] lay there
stupified A gAh In my head had split the
blood down my face The screams OF those
around me, the crashing OF the broken
coaches and the noans were terrible. I
tainted, but almost instantly revived. In
the aisle by my head lay man with oman
on top Of him. Both we're dead. Men and
women lay like logs Some were conscious
and struggled TO free themselves. One or two
lay half in the coach and half out through
the apertures that had been made by the
wreck. Angushed shouts came from every
where at once. Some one pounded on the
end OF the car with an axe. The doors had
been torn away. The coach behind ours
had climbed over otirs, and two Of the wheels
protruded through the top. A seat had been
flung from its fastenings and hung above
me.
Men ran into the flames and out again,
dragging by an arm or leg some half-naked
man or woman Emigrant men and women
with their gaudy shawls lay all around me.
counted fifteen men and women lying to
one side. Now and then one would raise
his head and stare at the fire and then drop
back to the gravel.
"Rescuers tried to put out the fire. but they
couldn't because they didn't have any
water. II would break out in different
places. The screams continued. As fast
as the bodies were lifted from the ruins
men carried them down the track and laid
them In rows. Everybody around there
seemed 10 be working Every one was
moving about. and above the screams
and means could be heard the orders of
some people who seemed TO be In authority.
Bodies which were seen TO be dead. |
on account of ghastly wounds, were piled |
being together. Thosn who were alive
or whose injuries could not he seen. were
carried out, each body requiring two
rescuers. The long hair Of women dragged |
along the gravel as the bodies were carried |
to places Of safety.
Il have dreamed horrible, terrifying !
dreams Of carnage and blood. but ! never |
dreamed Of anything ~ terrible. one |
could not even imagine the fearful scenes |
without being present"