New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-11-30
1oss OF LIFE IN WABASH WRECK
,7rsT ESTIMATE PLACES IT AT SEVENTY
FTvE-ITALIANS THOUGHT TO HAVE
REEN CONTRACT LABoRERs,

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,,.;. Mich Nov 2q-An interview this evening
- ri,ornas T Moran deputy customs collector
:. .,;s mort practically verifes the estimate 'hal
At least seventy-fve lives were lost IN "eoieSodS
nights collision on the WABASH ram oaa
go. The two Immigrant cars. in which the
.os. 1oes of life occurred, and IN when so
many of the wreck victims were roasted 10 uealn,
- mart r. train No Is. which crossed the De'roit
River from Canada the ferryhoat Great " Western
on Wednesday afternoon. ana Deputy -Ao.' "
sn.cted the baggage Of its passengers ne 80
+bare were at the least calculation one huhoreu
I.,,o :, the two cars In addition TO these there
mere ten more in the smoking car. Which was
ahead of the two immigrant cars
Official advices to Superintendent burns VI "t'S
z,;e;or of the Wabash say that of the Italians in
the wreck twenty escaped unhurt and were taken
to St Louis fifteen are in the company hoSpi'a',
a. parr Ind there are six others IN Peru ana
two are near Adrian uninjured. SuotracuhR '"ese
fortv-three from the one hundred ana zen iiniiii
grants Deputy Moran says were ABOARD 'he '
leaves a loss among the Italians alone OF sixty
- ~ addition eight other bodies were re-
covered and identified which makes total CT
seventy-five dead.
A dispatch from Adrian, Mich. says that 49, l
ing to Romano E, schiavone. of No lS' " est i"s
lor-st Chicago through whom was arranged XIV,
transportation California of the ltailahs ~
IN "Wednesday nights wreck on the Wabash there
were only about fifty immigrants on the "es,
hound rain If this is true ii reduces the death
list by almost half, ana the luliiOei VI $1,000
I ,i-,e will he between forty and nifty
~ f,o-6iel1o Italian consular agent in De-
+roit returned 10 the city to-day from the scene Vi
| the Wabash wreck, near Seneca TO "hicii ~ i-D
| hurried TO look after the interests OF MS
men so many OF whom were burned to death. ne
said he was not yet able TO form anything iihe
80. estimate Of the number of Italians Killed
hut is inclined to think the estimates thus lar dr.
tre t5e terrible loss of life sustained by the
| 1,aIiane will be made the subject OF corttspoliI
erce Consul Cardiello could not say IT is
not my place to notify the lttat .ba risdicion
Of Count Rosewadowski. the Itanan G t9 yic a.
Chicago who VIII asSI aGS have no doubt that
| he has already advised our government " " "
ci 9fIaye Won communicated with Count Rosewa-
doW dow bsve We" done my duty" the diplomatic
aS~ tbr Francis Beccherni. pastor Of the Italian
C,,,anob ~ San Francesca. in this city, went 20
The wabash wreck near Seneca. YESTERDAY ~ ciro
Ciapvannf Foorno the young Italian VINO Is d YIN.
IN the farmhouse nearest me Reccherini found
nat the party Of immigrants came from te no, IN
ern par iO ~ Of Sondrfo The party came on the
steamer La Campagnie ATTaTlng IN banker as
tbe small Italian bankers are called ana eX-
changed their money Then they ,r tb immi
grants were nound for san FrancascG 1;oa a. III
| FoIorno's pocfSt was his ticket for that point
| Adrian Mich Nov cit is believed now that
| -, 49,. 80 the bodtes recovered from the Wabash
| r.ck near Seneca on Wednesday night, and
brought here. has been Identified Mayor Reyn-
oIds to-day received telegram dated SHERMAN
| Tex saving: Can you advise If Ann Upton an
| old Iady with ticket sold here 10 Chatham ont
WAS injured william Upton.
| Mayor Reynolds wired back description to MI
| linton and 1t believed that the body Will De
| or5e,ed Skinned to Texas. At to-day only
| the bodies Of the porter. James Brown. and the
| body of the old woman remained in the morSue
| here The porter's body will be shipped to Engle-
| wood where his wife and children live All the
| burned and blackened fragments of what were
| once human bodies have been placed in collins
| ard were buried this afternoon in OAK Grove Gem