The evening times., 1901-11-28
Wabash Engineer Said to
Have MiSPead Orders.
EIGHTY DEAD III MICHIGAN WRECK.
Oae Hundred and Twenty-Five In
jured Many Immigrant Vic
tins Fire Adds to the
Horror Of Situation.

bash Railroad, near Seneca, d little sta
tton seventy miles southeast Of here, re
suited in the death Of eighty persons.
Fully 150 were injured, twenty-five of
them severely. Many Of these may die.
The disaster occurred at 7.so o'clock
last night, and is the most appalling in
the history of Michigan raIlraading, not
excepting the awful wreck on the Grand
Trunk Road at Battle Creek during the
Worlds Fair in 1888
Two passenger trains. both heavily
loaded. and one drawn by two engines,
met while running at full speed Cars
were smashed and the bodies were SO
badly scorehed that identification viii be
impossible
killed in wreck
No complete list Of The dead or injured
has been obtained. The following is as
complete as has yet been made:
The dead:
William D. Dowd. so3 Dearborn Ave
nue., DeIvay, Mich. fireman OF train No
IL
Cal. Balderf- fireman of train No. 13-
James Brown. porter, Detroit
E \. DeneII. Detroit
George ". Youuans, capitalist, Kansas
City, No.
Job Mitchell shce manufacturer, De-
troit
Mss Denzeo, TuppervilIe. Ontario
Vida LazE1Tdt and child, TuppeTviIle.
Gercnto Trino-
Carl TriEo-
DonincO Orchard
Same of the Injured.
The injured: Robert Parks, engineer
train I3. leg broken; H. c. Whitney,
Grand Rapids. slight injuries F B Rich
ardson. express messenger on train I3.
Detroit. head cut and legs mangIed: Mary
Dolman, Detroit; Samuel J Work, en-
gineer No. 13, badly scaIded and nose
broken; - Nicholas, Tioga county, y.
Y, nose broken and head injured; F. ".
Pierce, Chester, Mon, slightly injured;
Frank z. BiedIin, Baltimore, Nd, left
arm broken; -SaIIa Sock, Burnside III,
slightly hurt; Louis Shoemaker, Adrain,
Mich, GIp injured; Victor Cohen, I64 Fort
Green Street Brooklyn. slightly hurt;
Jesse Williams. Detroit back and hip
bruised; George T. White, go East 1T6Jh
Street, New York seriously injured;
Thomas Crehan. 46I Norway Street, Buf-
faio, leg injured: Winifred CTehan. Ba-
tavia. N Y, slightly hurt; D. BaneaTd
LOgansPort. stomach injured; Mrs II E
StTinger. Bellevue. Mich, spine and skull
hurt; E E Smith, Detroit, leg bruised:
MOultTie Greg Joplin, Mo-, bruised; ". E.
GiIlen. FaiTbuTn. y. H. cuts on hands and
body H C -Whelney- Grand Rapids. Mich,
badly cut; " F Carroll Tonawanda, y
Y, badly bruised. Amelia Colon, Color
ado, slightly injured; Mrs. Joseph Jaska,
Globesville. Col. slightly injured; Kath-
crime PIut. Denver, bruised; Anna
Kasov, Denver, injured IN head; James
P. KyIo-, Bronson. Mich. face and leg cut;
A. c Hart, brakeman Detroit, Eead
and face hurt; A " OTmond, baggage
master Detroit arm bruised. a L Hart
brakeman, Detroit, buised slightly: John
Lender. Detroit, bruised slightly: Engi-
nee. Strong, leg sprained and left shOuI-
der hurt; G. " Sweeney, Detroit, bruised
about head and legs; Lloyd L Kempton,
North Dakota head badly hurt; Walter
Greig, Joplin, No, seriously injured;
George Pfeffer. Detroit. slightly hurt; ".
Z. Gillen. cut seriously - Eliardel.
porter, slight cuts S McLemoTe. porter
bruised; Mrs. NJ. L Chreion, Buffalo.
slightly Injured; Mrs Richard, residence
unknown; George s Elliott. South Sc
bel, Me-, not serious; Victor Creenbaum,
New York, slight injuries
Slaughter of Immigrants
OF the dead, fifty are Italian immigrants
who were on the westbound train No. Is.
1t is estimated that there were fifty per-
sons in the day car of train No. i east
bound, and of these, thirty are dead
All sources of information are in coz
trol OF the Wabash officials, and it is al
legged that the details Of the disaster have
been suppressed so far as the railroad
men can control the wires.
Trainloads OF injured were taken to
Adrian, Mich; Peru, Indiana, and Mont
peIier Ohio.
The trains which coIlided were the
fastest on the road and they were prob
ably going TO less than fifty miles an hour
when the crash came.
Engineer Mfsread Orders.
The cause of the wreck was a misread-
ing of orders by Engineer Strong, of the
Continental Limited The order, it is
claimed, read, pass at Seneca but
Strong understood it to read Sand Creek
The conductor OF the train did not know
that the engineer had misunderstood the
order and supposed that his train was
going on a siding
Finding that the train was running rap
idly, the conductor put on the airbrakes
himself, but It was too late The two
trains crashed a--5 the cars on the west
bound train were crumpIed up in a heap
of ruins.
Engineer Strong stated in positive
terms today that his orders directed him
to pass trains 19 and (the latter closely
followed No. 13 from Detroi) at Sand
Greek. Strong saw the headlight on No.
Is four or five miles ahead, but he sup
posed the train was sidetracked at Sand
Greek, waiting for his train to pass.
The glare OF the powerful electric
headlight" !" he added, made it impossible
to see the exact location of the other
train Ny fireman and I both Jumped
from the right hand gangway."
To ada to the horror, the wreckage
caught fire instantly and in short time |
the bodies Of the dead and those Of the |
injured who we're pinned down we're being
burned. The scene which followed was
heartrending.
S1.Z5 to BALTIMORE and Return VI.
R A. a r r Saturday .a,s