Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-28
GRIepe. BlssET < HOLLAND

of Engineer Waterman. He was flung forty feet over the fence at the edge of the right of way. Moon, his fireman, was sitting on the opposite side of the cab, and he, too. was thrown clear of the pile of wreckage
 As the trains came together the steam domes of each boiler blew off, releasing their contents, else there would have been added horrors from the blistering steam. No. 6, eastbound, was composed of a mail and baggage car, combination smoker, buffet parlor car, day coach and diner. The baggage coach, caught between the engine and heavy train, crumpled up like paste board, only the roof remaining partial ly unbroken.
 The big blind mail coach, heavily bulkheaded, took the brunt of the blow, but withstood the crash and communi- cated it to the smoker, next in the rear
 The smoker was swept clean as the mail car telescoped it's entire length and turned over at the north side of the track. The smoker in turn crashed several feet into the parlor car, and it was at the rear end of the smoker and forward end of the cafe car where all the passengers were killed or injured. From space six feet square the bodies of two women, boy and a man were taken out.
 The westbound fier, with it's heavy bulkheaded cars, stayed on the rails back of the baggage and mail cars, and 3he passengers in this train escaped se- rious injury. As one man they rushed out of the train to assist the less fortu- nate ones on the train from this city. Many stripped warm overcoats from their backs and covered the suffering injured as they were borne to the less shattered cars of No. 5 and into the remains of the parlor car of No. G.. Nearby farmers. hearing the crash, turned out with blankets and did val iant service.
 According to statements made by of- ficials of the Pere Marquette, the west bound train was travelling down grade at the rate of sixty miles an hour The eastbound train was climbing the hill at speed of forty miles an hour. The former carried probably seventy-five passengers, while the latter is believed to have been carrying at least 125 per sons. The two trains collided at about the middle of a long, sweeping curve three quarters of a mile west of East Paris, On the inner side of the curve is high eInbankment preventing a view of the track ahead. When the engines met one turned completely over and lay with it's nose in direction op- posite to that in which it had been trav- cling. The other climbed the wreck age of the first, it's boiler torn from the trucks. standing erect in the center of the debris.
 In the cafe coach of the i'll fated east bound train, which was demolished as far back as the rear of the forward trucks, one of the most shocking of the many tragedies of the wreck was en- acted.
 Section Foreman Linden J. Baldwin, wife and son had spent Christmas in Grand Rapids and were returning to their home at Mulliken. Between the man and wife, sitting on the top of the car seat and playing with a bank re- ceived as Christmas gift, was their little son. The crash came, and all
 
 three met death. A beam flying through the air struck the child, beheading him. Mother and son were found together on the floor of the cafe car by the wrecking crew when they penetrated into the wreck.
 General Superintendent Smith said:
 "I have no reason to doubt the state ment of Booth that his light was burn ing two minutes before No. passed McCords and that the wind extinguish- ed it.
 "This is the first wreck in which the Pere Marquette ever killed passenger on its own train. The road has killed passengers on other trains, persons at crossings and employees, but never be- fore has it killed outright or fatally in- jured passenger of it's own.''
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