The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-28
FIBRE MARQUETTE WRECK.
THE DEATH LIST NOV NUMBERS
 TWENTY-TWo.

A"shty-AAne ohAsEs ahl sefot~t of Them Fataliy-cause of the Horror Laid to High Wind Which Extin- guishsd Red Signal Light-Blizzard Also Raging at che Time-The Dead and IDJared.
 Grand Rapids. Mich. Dec. 27.-To- night the death list resulting from the head-on collision between two Pere Marcuet.e passenger trains near East Paris early yesterday evening stands at thirty-two, with twenty-nine persons injured. several of them probably fatal- ly.
 The dead:
 MT. and Mrs. T. J. Baldwin, Mulliken. Mich.
 Louis Baldwin. their son. Mulliken. Mich.
 Lester Williams. Lansing, Mich.
 Mrs. Daisy Giles, Lowell, Mich.
 Burt Myers, Grandville. or Lake Odessa, Mich.
 Walter Jordan, Grand Rapids.
 Joseph Hull, colored. Windsor, Ont.
 Austin I. Wager, 1s2 Sixteenth stret Detroit. baggage man.
 Charles A. Stoddards. Detroit. engin- ger No. 6.
 Charles A. Devine, Grand Rapids.
 William Heinrich, Detroit, baggage man.
 F. M. Gillette Burr Oak or Portlands Mich.
 Allen H. Wells, Big Rapids, Mich.
 Frank Burns, Detroit, fireman Mo- 5.
 Peter W. Wierengo, Grand Rapids.
 George Palmer, Detroit, American Ex- press agent on No. 6: William Smith, Saranac, Mich; four unidentified men.
 The injured:
 Gerrit Motman. Grand Rapids, inter- nal injuries and hip crushed; dying.
 Charles West, Saranac, Mich; both legs broken, left hand torn off; probably fatal.
 John Clark, Pottsville, Mich. badly burned about legs. head and breast.
 Charles T. Chambers. Ionia, Mich: injured about head. face. body, bands and legs.
 Frank Waterman, Detroit, engineer No 5, seriously injured about head, face iacerated and internal injuries.
 J. c. Woodworth Salem, Mich, injur- ed about head and body.
 Edward Weigel, Grand Rapids; right leg broken and head injured.
 George Mel, Grand Rapids, conductor train No. 5: left leg broken and badly injured about body
 R. E. Gay, Detroit, brakeman; head, body and right leg injured.
 Harry Marcus, New York city, presi- fractured and injured about the shouI- ders.
 E. B, Moon, Grand Rapids fireman train No. 5: injured about head and body.
 Mrs. H. Kent, Grand Rapids; injured internally
 c. N. Botsford, Pennington, Mich; mail clerk, train No. 6. badly cut about head.
 Mrs. H. c. Gray, Grand Rapids; badly bruised about head and hips.
 F. c. Branch. Sunf1eld Mich, badly injured about head and shoulders.
 George Crammond, Grand Rapids. in jured about head and leg, and collar bone broken.
 Andrew Sprague, Allegan, Mich.: in- jured about head and body.
 Miss Gale Sprague, Allegan, Mich; in- iured about head.
 Claude Brown. Grand Rapids, leg in- jured.
 Mrs. H. R. streeter. Grand Ledge. Mich: badly cut about head.
 Howard Minor. Grand Rapids. left arm broken.
 w. J. Barber, Muskegan Heights, Mich: injured about head and face
 Rev. James Humphrey, pastor Church Of Christ. Lansing. Mich, badly cut about face.
 Timothy Dudley, Grand Rapids. seri- ously injured about back.
 J. T. Gould, Grand Rapids, badly cut about hands and shoulders.
 John Ross. Lansing. injured about legs and arms.
 Henry T. Bots, Grand Rapids, leg badly injured.
 Asa Keller. Clarksville. Mich, left leg injured.
 It was the most disastrous wreck in the history of the Pere Marquette sys- tenn, and, instead of being caused by mans carelessness or mistake, is charg- ed to the high wind which extinguished the red signal light in the order board at McCord's station, where the west bound train was expecte dto stop and receive new orders. Two minutes be- fore the train rushed by McCord's sta- tion the light was burning, says the op- orator there, but in that brief interval the blizzard that was raging extir- guished it, and train No flashed by the station to crash into east-bound train No. 6, near East Paris. The trains, which were two of the finest on the system, were reduced to promis- cuous pile of broken and twisted timber and metal, with dead and injured pin ned down and crushed by the fragments of the heavy cars. Five cars and two large locomotives were damned into a space ordinarily occupied by three coaches, and the wreckage was streWn across the rail- roads right of way from fence to fence. When train No. 5, bound west, whiz- zed by McCord's, instead of stopping, the frightened operator notified the dis patcher, who then found that his red light had been extinguished. He re- ported this fact and then there was but one action to take. The collision was inevitable.