New-York tribune., 1901-11-29


the breeze Inside Of two hours the iron works
of the cars had all been hauled into the bitches
at either side of the road. The first relief party
on the scene arrived from Adrian fifty-fve min
utes after the accident, and they Immediately
began work on the second coach Of Train No f.
which telescoped by the collision ana re-
duced TO splinters. The wreck Of the coach was
jammed into space hardly fourteen feet square
From the ruins of this the bodies of four
men and were pulled out.
Train No 3. which was waiting on the SIDE
track at Sand Creek having followed No IL
from Detroit. run UP to the scene as soon
as the accident was reported there, and on TINS
train practically all the injured from the west
bound train were loaded and started Tor the
company's hospital at Peru Ind.
A relief train from Montpelier Ohio, took more
of the injured from the easthound train and also
started for Peru with them. Pending the ARRIVAL
of these ambulance trains the injured, as fast
as they were extrcated. were placed in the two
sleepers attached to train No. 13 which were not
wrecked or taken to the house of Ben Huss.
which is within one hundred yards of where the
collision occurred
AT , O'Clock the bodies OF the dead. together
with the few fragments that had been dug out
from the burning cars, loaded aboard car
and taken back to the morgue at ADRIAN.
At 4:15 o'clock the body of Fireman Gavin
Batdorf discovered jammed into the
wrecked cab of his engine, No. l51- From the
position of his body, he had evidently been In
the act of feeding the furnace when the trains
came together His body was badly crushed
but still recogniza BILE.
A o'clock the wreckers removed the last
piece of wreckase from the tracks. 1t was en-
CINE No. 151. Although considerably warped
and bent, its wheels still true enough so
that they kept the track after the engine had
been pulled back on the rails and it was towed
to the Seneca sioetrack.
The cab of engine No IS, which had been
forced on top of engine No. Isl in the collision
still resting there.
The trains which crashed together were the
Continental Limited. eastbound. known as NO
1. and the regular westbound train, NO. 10.
No. was a heavy vestibuled train made up OF
an accommodation car, a day coach and
sleeper. No Is a doubleheader. with nine
coaches. the first two of which were filled with
Italian Immigrants for Colorado.
Superintendent Buras estimated the 1nanclai
loss TO the Wabash at $4,000.
The three engines piled themselves in an In
discriminate heap, with the leading engine OIL
No Is above the other two. The first three
coaches of the train were so telescoped that
they were nothing but mass Of DEBRIS. one
emigrant car was compressed into compass of
flames started below the emigrant cars, and
here the heaviest loss occurred, it being est1-
mated that about fifty persons, men, women
and children were moved down by the holo-
caust The loss in the rest of the train was not
heavy the shock being borne by the forward
cars.
In No. 4 the engine was followed by an ac-
conmodation car This was stout, and bore
the shock braveIy. The leading day coach OF
the train however teiescoped and burned IN
this were about fifty passengers The orunt
of the early rescue work was done here, ana
proba blv half of these passengers We're res
cu4d or escaped Train No. Is carried seventy
five immigrants from Italy bound for the coal
mines of Trinita Col Not more than half Of
these ESCAPED The train q double header.
drawn by engine No. SS, Samuel j. Work en-
gineer and Fireman Dowd, both Of Detroit
The second engine was No. 1o1, Robert PARKS
engineer and "Cal' Batdorf fireman. both OF
Ashley. Both engineers escaped alive. but their
fremen met death in the quiverng mass of iron
and steel Engineer Work is in great pain from
scalding a broken nose and scalp wounds He
is unable to talk
Following is the latest list of dead:
powD. William D. Of Delray; fireman. No. IS.
BATDoRF. Cal, of Ashley: fireman Of No. IL
BROWN, James. porter Of Chicago
BEUELI. E. y. Of Pontiac
YoIMANs George ". of Kansas City
WITCH ELL. Job, witcf1ell Sons. & Co. Detroit
pECAS Vida Tupperville, Ont.
sister-in-law Of Domenco Posterno and her child
TRINO, Girolono.
TRINo Carlo.
CREBARO Domionio.
Fol RoTES Giovanni body n farmhouse.
PoEsCHE. Hermann. No. As Dearborn-st-, Chicago
Unknown aged woman: leather eyegass marked
viii Philadelphia firm name.
Many bodies burned beyond any hope Of
identification. Many others were entirely