The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-29
Some Claim That Estimate That
Eighty PeriShed in Wreck on
the Wabash Railroad Is Not
Any Too Large
DIVISION Superintendent
DIVIDES NUMBER BY FOUR
He Says He Is Certain That Not
More Than Twenty Lives Were
LOSt-FormaI Investigation of
the Accident Will Be Under
taken Today

Detroit. Mich, Nov. 2S.-When night
fell over the scene of yesterday even
ings awful calamity on the Wabash
Railroad, near Seneca, Mich, those
who had been investigating the disas-
ter had found nothing to alter the es-
Inmates of about so lives lost as a re-
suit of the collision.
Superintendent Burns of the division
on which the wreck occurred insists
that the estimates are too high. Il do
not consider said he, that the total
death list will exceed 20
4 However in support of the larger es-
innate. it is pointed out that IA pas
I sengers are known to be dead. The
bodies of eight of these have been re-
! covered. and it is considered that the
fragments of other bodies now in the
morgue at Adrian will account for
many more than the u dead necessary
to make up superintendent Burns esti-
mate of 20. In addition to the compar-
atively few fragments which have been
recovered and sent to the morgue,
those who were early on the scene say
many more pieces were discovered
which crumbled to powder while they
/ were being removed.
Superintendent Burns told the Asso-
ciated Press that he was unable to tell
| the exact number of the italian immi-
grants who were aboard the emig %nt
train, but he thought that there were
not more than so. Passengers on the
train. and a number of those who were
early on the scene, dispute this and say
that the number was nearer so. Burns
has received no report as yet from
Ticket Collector Eames of the emigrant
train, who probably knows nearer than
anyone else about the number of Ital-
ians in the cars.
Coroner Hamilton of Adrian impan-
elled a jury this afternoon and will be-
gin an inquest into the disaster to-
morrow morning.
| All of the jurors are prominent in
the business affairs of the little city of
Adrian No steps have been taken. as
yet. toward the arrest of Engineer
Strong, whom Superintendent Burns
declares is responsible for the collision.
The known dead are:
William D. Dowd, Delray fireman,
number IS.
c. B. Ashley, fireman of number 49,
James Brown, porter, Chicago.
F.. n. Buell. of Pontiac.
George w. Youmans, Kansas City.
Job Mitchell of Witchell Sons &
| Company, Detroit.
Vida Decas. Tupperville, Ont, sister
| child.
Girolono Trino.
Carlo Trino.
| Domionio Crebaro.
Tt was a veritable hell of fire" said
Victor c. Greenbaum. of New York
! City who escaped with slight injuries.
| Some people who came hurrying to
the scene from a farm house in the
vicinity stood about the wreckaGo
helplessly with their hands to their
eyes to avoid the frightful spectacle
which was more than they could bear. "
Kansas City. Mo-, Nov. 2S.-George
w. Youmans one of the victims in the
| Wabash Railroad disaster was a well
known building and paving contractor.
He was the father of Frank E. You
mans, young broker who is under ar
rest at Detroit on a charge of embez-
element at Kansas City. Mr.. Youmans
was on his way to Detroit to try to
| persuade his son to return to Missouri
and face the charge. Mr.. Youmans
was S. years of age.