The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-07

The Dead.
JAMES MCCARTHY, traInrnaster Grand
Trunk road between Port Huron and Bat
tie Creek.
A. w. LARGE, special officer Grand
Trunk, Battle Creek.
JOHN PURCELL, Peru, Ind, boss can
vass man.
LAFE LARSON, Cambridge, Ohio, six.
q. THOMAS, residence unknown, mem
Der Of stake and chain gang.
HARRY ST. CLAIR, residence un-
known, reserved seat man.
JOHN LEARY, Springfield, ILL.,, boss of
ring stock
ANDREW ROWLAND, New York
state, canvass men.
FRANK THoRP, Dundee, Mich, train
master Of circus train.
ROBERT RICE, residence unknown,
harness maker.
GEORGE SMITH, residence unknown,
blacksmith -
CHARLES SANDS, Peru, Ind, driver.
JOE WILSON, Pttsburg.
w. J. Mccoy, Columbus, Ohio, canvas
UNKNOWN MAN, driver OF band
wagon.
UNKNOWN MAN, home said to be in
| indianapolis, rider In circus races.
UNKNOWN MAN, home said to be In
| Louisville, four-horse driver.
| UNKNOWN MAN, four horse driver.
UNKNOWN MAN, suffocated to death.
TWO unidentified men are also dead at
EDWARD YORK OF Terre Haute, Ind.
| Seriously Injured.
James s. Foley, special officer Grand
Trunk, Detroit, shoulder dislocated,
| bruises.
/! Joseph F. Benton, New Milford, Conn.,,
| internally injured.
w. H. Roe, Armstrong, ILL.,, internal in
juries.
Frank Tiney, Rising Sun, Ind, hip dis
! located badly bruised and internal in
juries.
Cole Abrams sandusky Ohio.
Burt McGrath, Conne11yille, Ohio.
John w. Rooms, Bairdstown, Ohio.
| George BARLEY, Los Angeles, Cal.
The wreck, according to the engineer
Of the second section, was caused by the
failure of the air brakes to work.
Joe Anderson, Evansville, Ind; Joh1
Thompson, Peru, Ind; J. King, Ports
mouth, Ohio; G. E. Frisbie, Geneva, Ohio
e. J. Connolly, Emmettsburg, Ohio; w
L. Cone, Dubuque, Iowa; J. J. Meadow
Anderson, s. c.; Joseph Patterson, Crane
Prairie, Ill; James Coffelmire, Orio, Iowa
Monks, Vassar, Mich; ohm Gileber, Bell
aire,. Ohio; John Collins, Des Moines
Iowa; Stephen Bennett, New York city
George Clough, Trumbull, Ohio; j. r
Stewart, Denver, Coll G.. w. Terry, Chi
cago; N Caldwallader, Indianapolis; Mar
shall Nollis, Chicago; Henry Coulklin
Bingaamton, N. Y.
None Ct the crews of either train was
hurt. At the time the crash occurred
train No. was running probably flfteer
miles an hour.
\ General Manager F. II. McGuigan Of the
/ Grand Trunk system was on his way from
Chicago to Montreal and arrived at the
scene on a passenger train at a. m. HI
Immediately took charge Of the work O.
clearing the track and caring for the In
jured and dead.
i The circus travels in two trains o
about thirty five cars each. After las
nights exhibition at Charlotte, the tw,
trains left for Lapeer over the Crane
Trunk road the second section 1eavin,
a. half hour after the first. It was 3:4
o'clock when the first section pulled int
, the west end Of the Grand Trunk yard
here A red light was hung on the rea
l car to stop the second section.
Engineer Propst Of Battle Creek, VIII
. was running the engine Of the rear trail
says he saw this light an dapplied the al
brakes. To his horror it refused to worl,
, He reversed his engine, but the momen
tum Of the train behind was too great an
with a crash that aroused all Of the tow
cars Of the stationary first section wer