The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-12-04
MANY PASSENGERS Persisted
liescuers Forced to Stand Idle While
Fire Eiend Did His Work.
MOST OF me VICTIMS IMMIGRANTS.
Engineer Did Not Read His Orders
Alright and Two Passenger Trains
Crashed Together at Terrific
Speed scenes OF UnsPeak-
able Horror Follow the
Collision-The Dead.

ST. Louis Nov. 28-A list OF known
dead received at Wabash headquarters
lie at follows: GIroIono Trino, Doml'
nleo Crebaro, Carlo Trines, emigrants;
James Brown, Porter; e. N. Denelle'
-petroIt; George w. Youmans, con-
tractor, Kansas City; Job WitoheII,
merchant, Detroit; Hermann Poesch,
Chicago; Vida Deaas, TuPPerville, On
tarlo. Many more were burned be-
You'd recognition, many others entire
Iy eremated. A long list of Injured is
also given In the3report.
Adrian, Mich, Nov. 2S-No deVel-
opments have dawned upon the horrid
scene of wreckage on the Wabash
railroad near Seneca, a small village
IL miles west of Adrian, that tend to
minimize or detract from the awful
calamity. All of the wreckage has
been cleared from the track. The
number OF dead victims will reach
from 80 to 100 and more than the lat
ter numberS are suffering greater or
lesser Injuries. Some of the railroad
oficials assert that the number OF
dead will not exceed so, but the num-
Der OF corpses and parts OF human
forms collected disprove this estimate.
Considerable light was shown on
the cause for the disaster by the or
ders which the conductor showed as
ehis authority for proceeding past Sand
Creek. The order delivered to the
train 10 at Holloway read as follows:
TRAINS No. 13 and 8: No. 4, engine
6O9, will meet No. 10 at Seneca and
No. 8, engine 623, Sand Creek. Engines
80 and 151 will double head No. 49,"
It is understood the engineer and
conductor of No. received a similar
order at Montpelier, o., but IL SO these
II wv-N
9P5 er the sSE CfSsFs fsue e It dsye
trains were to the same end 1t is con-
sidered that the responsibility for the
disaster rests wholly with the engineer
and conductor of the eastbound Cont.
mental limited.
Burned Beyond Recognition.
Many of the burned bodies cannot
Be idenlified. Only six bodies were
recovered intact. A small pile of
crisp, blackened fragments that COW
cred two stretchers was all that could
be found of a number of others.
The following bodies are lying in
the morgue at Adrian: Fireman Bal
dorf, of Engine 81, who WAS crushed
TO death in his cab; James Brown, col
ored, porter; e. N. Denell, Detroit;
George N. Youman, Kansas City; Job
wItchell, Detroit; Herman Poesch, AZ,
Dearborn street, Chicago, and an un-
identified woman. Giovonni FOlonRro,
an emigrant, lies in nearby farm
house.
The scene OF the catastrophe pre-
scented a bleak and desolate appear,
ance whom day dRwned. Strewn along
both sides of the track for 500 feet
Nere car wheels, brake beams and
such other parts OF the wrecked coach
es as would not burn. Engines SS and
Goe were lying in the ditch veritable
scrap heaps. Broken cars. many of
them stained with the blood of their
last occupants were scattered about
and being used as cushions by those
huddled around open fires.
The two passenger trains were go
ing at almost full speed when they
met. Both trains were telescoped in
the dreadful impact. then burned, en-
failing the tremendous loss of life.
Going at Full Speed.
The Westbound train was know as
No. 10 and was a regular train, but
besides the regular coaches had sew.
eral coaches filled with Italian immi-
grants who were going to work In
the coal mines at Trinidad, Colo.
The eastbound train was known as No.
4, the Continental limited. 1t was
YestibuIed train consisting OF q bag
gage car combination COaCn anu
sleepers. The cause of the wreck was
q, misreading of orders by Engineer
Strong OF the Continental limited. He
understood the order to read Sand
Creek instead of Seneca. The con-
ductor OF the train did not know the
westbound train were crumpled up In
heap of ruins.
Wreckage Caught FIre.
The immigrants and other passen-
gers on train 13 were crushed between
the splintered cars. II any escaped
without injury 1t will be considered a
miracle. To add to the horror the
wreckage caught fire Instantly, and in
q, short, time the bodies of the dead
and those of theuinjursd who were
pinned down were being burned. The
soence which followed was heartrend-
linS fn'tho extreme! The wreck oc.
CURED in open country with but one
farm house near by and facilities for