The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1903-12-31
TWENTY-T killed
IN A Big WRECK
Terrible Casualty List Result
ing From Collision Of Two
Passenger Trains.
NET NEAR GRAND RAPIDS

High Wind, Driving a Binding Biz
=erd Elew Out Red Signal! Light
AWFUL Impact of the Heavy
Trains.
Grand Rapids, Mich, Dec. 29.-The
death list resulting from the head-on
collision between VIC Pere Marquette
railroad passenger trains near East
Paris stands at twenty-five, With thir-
ty-eight persons injured, several Of
them probably fatally.
The collision, which was head-on, was
caused, according to q statement is
sued by he officials of the road at the
general offices in Detroit, by the high
wind blowing out the red signal lamp
at McCord's. where the westbound
train, No. s. should have stopped and
received orders to pass the eastbound
train at Fox. The Officials deny a re-
port that a misunderstanding of orders
on the part of one of the engineers vas
responsible for the collision.
According to the statement of the Of
nc1alS the trains We're originally to
have met and passed at Oakdale Park,
but to help the eastbound train the dis
patcher issued new orders, fixing Fox
as the meeting place. The %eastbound
tiolii ISSSlNGtl IlS OFueIS 10 ILLS ellGCl,
and the westbound should have re-
ceived this order at McCord's. Instead
it rushed by this station, and the oper-
ator there, after reporting this fact,
found on going out to the platform that
his red signal light, which had been
burning w minutes before, was out,
presumably eXtinguislled by the high
wind that was blowing.
List of Dead.
NJJS. a MI # q = . = 49, ~ .~y-
SON, Mulliken, Mich.
LESIER WILLIAMS, Lansing. Mich.
MRS; DAISY GILES. Lowell. Mich.
BURT MYERS, Grandville, Mich.
JOSEPH HULLM (colored), Windsor,
AUSTIN /. WAGER, b-aggaseman, De-
cHARLEs A. sroDpARD, Detroit, en-
GHARLEs A. DEvINE. Grand Rapids.
VIM. HELMfalCH, Detroit, baggage
7. VI. GILLET, Burr Oak, or Portland,
A IL "a a. WELLS, Big Rapids, Mich.
W: WIERENGO, Grand Rapids.
GEORGE PALMER, Detroit, express
z f.. CoYKENDAL1IL, Lake odessa,
a ~ MAY. car repairer, Grand Rapids.
City, la. vi ihonipsoh'' SIOUX
ONE UNIDENTIFIED MAN.
yEe injured:
Charles West, Saranac, Mich.
George Palmer, express agent.
Mlchael Malburge, Hart, Mich.
IIllI1othy Quealey, Grand kap;ds.
j.. Gould, Grand Rapids.
John Ross, Lansing, Mich.
Lester A. Williams, Lansing, Mich.
ley. James humphrey, Grand Rapids.
Mrs. H. r.. streeter, Grand Lodge,
Howard Miner, Grand RAPIDS.
=. y. Earder, Muskegon Heights.
harry Marcus. New York city.
z. b. Moon, Detroit, fireman.
Mrs. II. KeEt, Grand Rapids.
e; w. Botsford, Pennington, Mich.
Mrs. J. Cray, Grand Rapids.
q. @. Bransh and wife, sunfield, Mich.
George Crammond, Detroit.
andrew Sprague, Alleghan, Mich.
Miss Gail Srague, Alleahan.
John Post, Clarksville, Mich.
Charles T.. Chambers, Ionia.
Claude Brown, Grand Rapids.
FRANK Waterman, Detroit.
J. c. Woodworth, Salem, Mich.
Gerrltt Motlna Grand Rapids,
Ed Weigel, Grand Rapids.
George Mel, Grand RAPIDS.
Brakeman s. F. Gray. Detroit.
Met With Terrible impact.
Ihe trains met with Il terrific crash,
the baggage and smoking cars behind
each locomotive being instantly re-
duced to a pile of kidding wood. The
engines We're completely wrecked, the
boiler of that which had pulled the
~eastbound train being torn completely
from the running gear and standing
perpendicularly in a ditch at the side
of the track.
Engineer Frank Waterman, who sur
v1ved the catastrophe, says he and his
fireman, E. p. Moon, were caught like
rats in a trap before they had time to
save themselves. lie says he never
saw the eastbcuad train.
The crash and the means OF the in
jured We're heard by nearby farmers,
who rushed to the scene TO lend assist
ance. No person occupying cars other
than the baggage and smoking cars,
with very few exceptions. was serious
5ly injured. Within two minutes the
uninjured male passengers and those
of the train crews who were not hurt
had begun the work of rescue.
Travelling Agent Frank Hewitt, OF
the Pere Marquette, who was on the
train bound for Detroit, and who es-
capped with Slight injuries, ran to the
nearest telegraph Office and tele-
graphed for a Wrecking train and SUR
geons.
wrecked cars, the rescuers by the light
of lanterns, delved into the wreckage,
and with fence rails and timbers for
levers prfed out the sufferers.
Engineer and Fireman Crushed.
The first body discovered in the
wreckage was that of Engineer Stod-
dard of the eastbound train. Terribly
crushed and mangled, 1t lay under part
Of his engine. Close by wns a body
SO crushed that positive Identification
was then impossible, but it was after
ward discovered to be S%toddard's FIRE
man, Edward Burns.
Charles T. Chambers of Ionia. and
John Post of Elarksyille. Mich, We're
found close together. pinned down by
tons Of debris. Chambers was CON
.sseiarsA and urged thesrescuers to extri-
cate his unconscious companion, Post.
The first efforts only succeeded i'll loos-
ening The mass Of debris SO that It, bore
down heavier on poor Chambers, who
was suffering ~agonies. More powerful
levers and more helpers finally lifted
the mass sufficiently SO h THE two
men could be pulled out, Post recov-
cred consciousness only long enough to
give his name and address on the hos
pital train.
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