The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-08-12
4 RAILROAD HORROR.
I've Trains Carrying 4 Big Circus
Come Together
TWENTY-TEREE PEOPLE KILLED
AS Many More Badly Injured. some
OF the Animals KILLED Also,
Horrible Spectacle in
the Grey Dawn.
the Grey Dawn.

Wallace Brothers circus was wreck
ed in the Grand Trunk yards at Der
rand. Mich. Friday morning and
twenty-three men mostly employees of
the circus. including a few Of the per-
formers, were killed outright. Twenty
more were injured, some fatally. The
show was travelling in two sections
over the Grand Trunk tracks from
Lansing to Lapere. and the accideL {
it is said, was caused by the failure of
the second section of the train to stop
on time. The two sections were travel
ing near each other, and the second
ran into the first at full speed. III
loss to the circus people will be heaHJ
Some Of those killed ana injured
were railroad people attached to the
train, including Trainmaster }. NC
Carthy OF the Grand Trunk. The
wreckage of the engine and four cars
was strewn about and piled high,
while the shriekS Of the injured aud
the believing of the frightened anil
mails could be heard above the hiss OF
escaping steam aud the excited shouts
of the reScuerS. 1t was hours before
the injured were rescued from the
wrecked cars Some OF them are in
terrible agony and it is feared that
sarap moro will die
The wreck according to the state
ment of the engineer of the second
section. was caused by the failure OF
the air brakes to work. 1t was 3:45
o'clock when the first section pulled
into the west end of the Grand Trunk
yards here. A red light was hung on
the rear car to stop the second sec.
ticn. Engineer Propst Of Battle
Creek, who was running the engine OF
the rear train, says he saw the light
and applied tue air brakes. To his
borrow they refused to work. He re-
versed his engine, but the momentum
Of the train behind was too great and
with crash that aroused all the towr
near the yard, the two trains met.
Three cars Of the stationary first
section were t2ieScoped, and the en-.
CINE and five cars Of the moving train
were demolised. the rear car OF the
first section, the caboose in which the
trainmen were sleeping and the next
two, filed with sleeping circus en-
ployeeS. The greatest loss OF life was
in the cabooSe. One Of the wrecked
cars Of the second section was occu'
pied by FIVE elephants and several cam,
els. One elephant aud two camel:
were killed outright, while the Other
animals and their trainers escaped.
With the exception Of this car, mons
of the menagerie were wrecked, the
other demolished cars containing can
vas or wagons and there was compare
lively little excitement among the
wild animals AS soon as they recor'
cred from the first shock the trainers
rushed among the cages, quietlng the
few beasts that were excited.
The escaping steam and the screams
and cries OF those pinned in the wreck
made horrifying situation in the
gray Of the early morning, when the
trainmen in the yards and the aroused
towns. people first reached the scene,
Many feared at first that some Of the
menagerie had escaped as some Of the
animals could be heard. All available
drays and wagons in the vicinity were
used for ambulaaces, and for severa
hours after the accident there was q
steady procession Of the extemporizec
ambulances from the scene Of the &C
cident in the railroad yards to the
Hotel Richelieu. The dining room o1
the hotel was used as an operating
room by the surgeons. A score Of
wives and daughters of rescuers vol
unteered as nurses and worked with
the surgeons all the morning.
More than twenty Of the injured
were fastened and pinned down in the
wreckage, so that they h.o to be
chopped and pried out. It was late in
the morning before all had been eN.
tricated and removed to the hospital.
All Of the animal cars were !lnloaded
and the cages removed to neighboring
field, where the animals could get all
and quiet down after the excitement.
AN OHIO mob