Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-11-29
At LEAST 100 DEAD.
Surviving Immigrants Say That
Many of Their Number
Perished.
WABASH OFFICIAL LIST TEN,
While Superintendent Burns Said Not
over 20 Were Killed In the Wreck,
In Michigan-lt Is Asserted Ashes
of About 90 Scattered by Vino.

Detroit, Nov. as.-When night fell
last night over the scene Of Wednes.
day evenings awful calamity ON the
Wabash railroad, near Seneca, Mich,
those who had been investigating tho
disaster had found nothing TO alter
the estimate of about so lives lost a.
a result of the collision. Superlntsad-
ent George NJ. Burns, OF the division
on which the wreck occurred. 6nsist-
ed that the estimates were too high
surns Estimates Deaths at 20.
q 30 not consider, said he, that
the total death list will exceed 20. !"
However, in support of the larger es-
innate, it was pointed out that there
are now IA passengers known to be
dead. The bodies of eight of these
had been recovered and it was con
sldered that the fragments OF other
beaies in the morSue at Adrian
Woald account for many more than
the IL dead necessary to make up
Superintendent Burns estimate of 20
In addition to the comparatively few
fragments recovered and sent To the
morgue those who were early On the
scene said that many more pieces
were discovered which caulnbied 10
powder while they We're peing re-
moved
Superintendent Burns said to the
Associated Press last night that he
was unable to tell the exact number
of Italian immigrants aboard train
No. 13, but thought that there were
not more than SO. Passeng gers on the
train and number of those who were
early on the scene disputed this and
said the number was nearer 50 SUI
perintendent Burns had received no
report from Ticket Collector Eames,
of train No. 13, Bho PROBABLY knows
nearer than anyone else the number
of Italians in the care.
Coroner Hamilton, Of Adrian. yes
terday afternoon, inpaneled a jury
and was TO begin an inquest into the
disaster this morning. Following are
the mem bers and their occupations:
e. f. Cleveland, grocer j. b. Morden,
liveryman; A. w. Carey and A. w
Aldrich, merchants; j. w Kirk. Jew
eler, and John Davis, retired mer.
chant All the Jurors are prominent
IN the business affairs of the little
city of Adrian. No steps had been
taken as yet toward the arrest of En-
gineer Strong, whom Superintendent
Burns said was responsible for the
collision and holocaust.
At Least 100 Dead.
The official list of the dead and in
jured given 10 the local papers
showed the names Of but 10 dead and
48 injured The Detroit newspaper
men who were at the scene of the
wreck and talked with survivors OF
both trains said that the official list
does not bear out the statement of
the passengers, nor evidence Of the
horrible loss of life which they wit
messed at the spot whore the acct
dent occurred The Free Press today
was expected to say that the loss of
life was in round numbers 100 and
that the statements made by the Ital-
ian immigrants in train No. 10 bore
out this claim. These immigrants
said that there We're about rs OF their
nationality On the train and that only
about Is Of them escaped While
there arc only 10 of them known to
be dead, it is asserted that the other
80 were completely incinerated, and
that with the removal OF the wreck
age the bodies crumbled to dust were
scattered By the wind which
swept across the country. IL the
names Of these dead are ever known
it will be when friends make inquiry
for them, and in many Instances
this seems highly improbable