The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-28
WENT RUSHING
BY THE STATION
Red Signal Light Was Out and
Accident Inevitable.
TWEETY-TWO DEATHS so FAR
LATEST DETAILS OF THE TERRI
BILE MICHIGAN WRECK.

two Pere Marquette railroad passenger
trains near East Paris last evening
stands twenty-five. with thirty
eight persons injured, several Of them
probably fatally.
The Dead.
Mr.. and Mrs. /. j. Baldwin, Multi
ken, Mich
Louis Baldwin. their son. Mulliken.
Lester Williams, Lansing, Mich
Mrs. Daisy Giles, Lowell. Mich.
Burt Myers, Grandville or Lake Cd
/ essa, Mich.
Walter Jordan, Grand Rapids.
Joseph HUM (colored), Windsor,
Ont.
Austin L Wager, baggageman. De-
charles A. stoddard, Detroit. engi-
neer, no. 6.
! Charles A. Devine, Grand Rapids.
William Heinrich, Detroit, baggage
man
F. NJ Gnlett, Burr Oak or Portland,
Mich.
Allen IT. Wells. Big Rapids. Mich.
Frank w. Wierengo, Grand Rapids.
George Palmer. Detroit. American
Express agent, NO. s
William Smith, Saranac, Mich.
f. f. Coykendan, Lake Odessa,
A. F. May. car repairer. Grand Rap
ids.
- Peterson Cor ThOmpson), Sioux
City Ia.
One unidentified man.
The Injured.
Gerrett NJ. hoffman. Grand Rapids;
internally injured and hip crushed; dy-
ing.
Charles West. Saranac, Mich; both
Express agent, No. s.
bly, fatally injured
John Clark. PottsviIIe Mich; skull
legs broken, left hand torn OF; proba-
jured about body and hips
Michael Maltburg. Hart. Mich. bad
ly burned. legs. hands and breast.
fractured; nose broken; seriously in
Charles T.. Chambers, lOnia, Mich:
injured about head; face, BODY. hands
and legs.
Frank Waterman. Detroit. engineer
No. s. seriously injured about head,
face lacerated and internal injuries.
J. G. Woodwork. Salem, Mich; in
jUred about head and body
Edward Weigel. Grand Rapids: con
ductor. No. 3; left leg broken and bad
~ injured about body
r. r. Gay, Detroit; brakeman; head,
body and right leg injured
Harry Marcus. New York City. pres
ident of the j.. II. Marcus company;
left leg fractured and injured about
shoulders.
Z. B. Moon. Grand Rapids; fireman,
No .: injured about head and body.
Mrs. II. Kent, Grand Rapids injured
internally.
c. n Botsford Pennington. Mich;
mail clerk, No. 6; badly cut about the
head.
Mrs. II. o. Gray. Grand Rapids; bad
1 ~ bruised about head and hips.
II. O. Branch. Sunfeld. Mich; badly
injured about head and shoulders.
George r. Crammond, Grand Rapids;
injured about head, and leg and collar
bone broken.
Andrew sprague. AIegan; injured
1 a bout head.
/ CIaud Brown, Grand Rapids; leg
Howard Minor. Grand Rapids; left
/ arm broken.
( w. J. Barber Muskegon. Mich; in
I jUred about head and face
Rev James Humphreys, pastor Of the
I Church. Of Christ, Lansing, badly cut
about face
Timothy Qualey. Grand Rapids; ser
/ iously injured about back
] J. T. Gould, Grand Rapids; badly cut
about hands and shoulders.
John Ross, Lansing; injured about
/ legs and arms.
Henry T. BoIes, Grand Rapids; leg
Ada keller GAINESVILLE. Mich; left
/ leg injured
]. Mischick, Polauder address un-
/ known.
W f. Rogers Muskegon. Mich;
( brakeman
/ T. H. Gorsenmier, Lansing, Mich;
Thomas Draper, Dutton. Mich; black
smith.
Richard Douthett. Grand Rapids.
/ Andrew Cello, Muskegon Mich.
Milton s. Crowel. Grand Rapids.
/ J. w. Moore. Detroit
NJ AIeche. foreigner. residence IN
known.
Wind Caused the Accident.
The wreck is charged to the high
( wind. which extinguished the red sig
nal light i'm the order board at Nc
/ Cords station. where the WestbOund
/ train was expected to stop and receive
/ orders Two minutes before the train
{ rushed by McCOrd's station the light
/ but in that brief interval the blizzard
/ that was raging eXtinguished il and
I train No. 5 flashed by the station to
I crash into eastbound train No near
4 East Paris. The trains, which were
I two Of the finest on the system. were
] reduced TO a promiscuoUs pile of broken
/ and twisted timber and metal, with
dead and injured people pinned down
and crushe by the fragments of the
/ heavy cars
Five cars an two large locomotives
were damned into a space ordinarily
occupied by three coaches, and the
wreckage was strewn across the rail-
road right of way from fence 20 fence.
Collision Inevitable.
when train No. s. bound west.
/ whizzed by McCord's station instead OF
stopping the frightened operator no.
titled the dispatcher. then found that
his red signal light had been eXtin-
! guished. He reported this fact and
then there was but one action to take
The collision was inevitable
The dispatcher's office called for med
ical aid and gave orders to hold the
: train over the Saginaw branch at the
station and get the Wrecking outfit
under steam. They then waited for the
word they knew must come.
There was no chance Of the fast run
ming trains to see each other through
the driving blizzard i'm time to even
slow down. and in a few minutes word
came from the conductor OF no. 5 that
they had crashed together and that
there was an awful loss Of life
Went Through Like Wedge
The westbound engine drove through
no. 6's engine like q wedge. separating
the gear from the boiler and standing
the latter on end like broken, twisted
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