The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-28
Casualty List Of Pere Marquette Disaster Increases
 With Time
OPERATORS KNEW THAT
 COLLISION WAS CERTAIN
When Train Dashed by the Darkened Station the Operator Notified the Dispatcher and Wreckers Were
 Gotten in Readiness.

Grand Rapids, Mich. December 27.- Tonight the number of deaths resulting ! from the collision between the Pere Mar | quette passenger trains near Paris, stands at twenty-two, with thirty-eight | persons injured, several of them fatally.
 THE DEAD.
 Mr and Mrs L. j. Baldwin, Mulliken, Mich
 Louis Baldwin their son, Mulliken.
 Lester Williams, Lansing, Mich.
 Mrs Daisy GileA Lowell, Mich
 Burt Meyers, Grandville and Lake Odessa, Mich
 l Walter Jordan, Grand Rapids, Mich.
 Joseph Hull, colored. Windsor, Ont
 Austin l. Wager, baggageman, De- troit
 Charles A. stoddard, engineer No. 6, | Detroit
 Charles A. Devine Grand Rapids. . William Heinrich. baggageman, De- troit
 F. NJ. Gillet. Burr Oak or Portland, Mich.
 Allen II. Wells Big Rapids Mich
 Frank Burns, fireman No 5 Detroit
 Peter w. Wierengo. Grand Rapids.
 George Halmer, American express agent No. G. Detroit.
 William Smith, Saranac, Mich
 F. F Coykendal Lake Odessa, Mich.
 A. F. May, car repairer, Grand Rapids
 Peterson Cor Thompson, Sioux City. la.
 One unidentified man.
 THE INJURED.
 Gerrit Motman, internal injuries and hip crushed, dying; Charles West, both legs broken. left hand torn off, probably fatally injured, Saranac, Mich; John Clark, Postville, Mich, skull fractured, nose broken, seriously injured about the body and hips; Michael Maltburg, Hart. Mich, badly burned, legs hands and breast scaded; Charles Tamboirs, Iona, Mich, injured about head, face hands and legs; Frank Waterman, Detroit, en- gineer No. 5 seriously injured about head face lacerated and internal inju- ries; J. c. Woodworth, Salem, Mich, in- jured about head and body; Luward Wei gel, Grand Rapids, right leg broken and head injured; George W. Neil. Grand | Rapids conductor No. D. left leg broken l and badly injured about body: K. D. Gay | Detroit, brakeman, head body and right | leg injured; Harry Marcus, New York president of the E. H. Marcus company left leg fractured and injuries about the shoulders; E. B. Moon, Grand Rapids fireman train No. ,, injured about head | and body; Mrs II. Kent, Grand Rapids internally injured; C. N. Botsford. Far mngton. Mich. mail clerk train No G. badly cut about head Mrs. II. O. Gray Grand Rapids, badly bruised about head and hips H. O. Branch, Sunfield. Mich, badly injured about head and shoulders George c. Edmond, injured about head and legs. collar bone brolSen Andrew | Sprague Allegan. Mich. injured about ] head; Claud Brown, Grand Rapids leg broken; Mrs. II. R. Stetor. Grand Lodge Mich. cut about head Howard Minor ! Grand Rapids Jeff arm broken; w. J. Barber Muskegon Heights. Mich. injured about head and face; Rev. James Hum | phrey pastor Church of Christ. Lansing | Mich. badly cut about face. Timothy | Oualey. Grand Rapids. seriously injured about back: c. r. Gould. Grand Rapids ] badly cut about hands and shoulders; John Ross. Lansing. injured about legs and arms. Henry T. Boles. Grand Rap ids leg badly iniured Ada Kellar. Clarks- l AllC0t K. ! Polander. address unknown; N. F. Rog- CTS Muskegon. Mich, brakeman; L. H. Gorsenmier. Lansing Mich: Thomas Draper Dutton. Mich. Richard, Douth- ct. Grand Rapids: Andrew Cello. Muske- eon; Milton Scrowl. Grand Rapids J. w l Moore Detroit; D. Meach foreigner, res | idence unknown.
 Chared to High Winds.
 II was the most disastrous wreck in the history of the Pere Marquette system, and instead of being caused by mans carelessness or mistake, is ch; rged to the high wind which extinguished the red signal light on the order board at Me , Cords station. where the west hound train was expected to stop and receive new or ders. Two minutes before the train rush ed by McCords the light was burning. | says the operator there. but in that brief interval the blizzard extinguished it. and No flashed by the station to crash into east bound No. near East paris The trains which were two of th finest on the system were reduced tc promiscu- ous pile of broken and twisted timber and metal. with dead and injured pinned down and crushed by the fragments of the heavy cars. Five cars and two large To- comotives were iammed into space or | dlnarlly occupied by three coaches. When train No. ,. west bound slipped DN hcoOfb-t uSiedl oi SibpplUR. the 0D- orator notified the dispatcher then found that his red lisht had been extinguished He reported this and then there was but enc action 10 take. the collision was in- evitable The dispatcher's office called for medical aid and gave orders to hold the train over the Saginaw branch at the depot and get the wrecking outfit under steam They waited for the word they knew must come. There was sp chance for the fast running trains to 500 eacb | other through the driving blizzard in time ! to even slow down. and in fev, minutes word came from the conductor of No. ] | that they had crashed together and that | there was an awful loss of life Engine Like Broken, She'll. ] The west bound engine dr9se No 6's