The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1907-07-25
TWENTY NINE
DEAD IN Wreck
IN MICHIGAN
Excursion Train Car
rying 500 People Col
lides withF Freight
Near Salem.
AWFUL SCENES ENACTED.
Men. Women and Children
Crushed in the Splint-
cred Coaches, Few Es-
Gaping Injury.
AWFUL SCENES ENACTED
Terrible Ending to a Happy Days
Outing by the Employees of Pere
Marquette Road.

Marquette Road.
Salem, Mich. July 22.-Twenty.
nine excursionists we're killed and
100 more injured. many of them IA
tally, Saturday morning when aPere
Marquette excursion train OF IL
coaches from Ionia, carrying nearly
1000 employees of the Pere Marquette
shops there. and their families. was
run into by a local freight train at
Washburn Crossing, about two miles
east of here.
Long List Of Dead.
The dead, all of whom are from
Ionia: Win Dot, Ionia; John Patter-
son. Charles Macaloni, AL Hebert,
Martin ktlduff, Mrs. Abraham Eddy,
Herman Nadf, N. ]. Cornell, John Rog-
ers. Willie Grams. a boy; John Tafel,
Mrs. August Richter, Ned Gallagher,
Lee AlvoTd. Conductor E. E. Bixley,
Fireman Knowles, Den Rogers, Fred
ellck Latham, Frank Smith, Conduc-
otr E. E. Pixley, Charles Hess and
his two sous. Charles McCauley, ST.;
L. K. Merrill, Albert Trautwine,
James Wizard, Harry Reynolds, Ho-
mer Smith, Fred Fitzgerald, William
steiger, Kansas City, who was work
Ing In lonia, bred Vaughan, South
Bend, Ind.
Coaches T~elescoped.
Three Nf tEo ooaohoc vo,o +o1>
scoped by the terrific impact of the
heavy freight train, and the fourth
and fifth coaches were smashed into
matchwood. Although there we're
probably $50 children among the ex-
c~urssonists it is a strange fact that
few OF them were severely hurt. Near
ly all of the dead and the injured are
men. Passengers ON the wrecked
train say that the passenger was run.
ming about 40 miles an hour when the
trains met.
Wreck Occurs in Cut.
The banks alongside the track at
the crossing where the collision &C.
CURED are ten feet high, and the
space between them for several hun
bred feet is literally flied with wreck
age. The railroad wreckers are max
ing all the speed that is possible in
clearing it, but even with the assist
ance of steam Frames at each end. it
VIII be IL hours before it can definite
" be stated whether all the bodies
are out. The passenger engine was
completely wrecked and it's crew
killed, but in some miraculous manner
the engineer and fireman of the
freight engine escaped with their
lives.
A majority of the killed were men,
who We're seated in the smoking car.
Farmer eaw Wreck.
The trains met In a out which is
In the arch of a four-mile long curve
tn the track, and the banks run up
Q ten feet above the rails at the
poant OF cal1ision. b. r. Smith, a farm
er living near the crossing, was at
work in hts field, and saw the two
trains bearing down upon each other.
Both Of them dashed into the cut and
out OF hfB range Of vision. Just the
tops of the smoke stacks were Wis
ibiy as they rushed along under the
ten feet banks to destruction. He
saw the stacks come together and
then the two engines reared up above
the banks and fell back as the roar
Of the collision came to his ears.
Shrieks Filled the Air.
"a 1po0 nk .L><o~o r. - e.
happened the air was pierced with
creams of the wounded and diving
people. staggering out from the
wrecked cars. Mr.. Smith with dozens
of other farmers in the neighborhood.
rushed to their assistance. Many Of
the farmers brought bedding and
bandages for the injured and as the
hours wore on. sent to their homes
for food for the suffering people. The
scene about the wreck as the wreck
ers delved among the shattered cars
was pitiful. Men, women and children
weeping and moaning wandered about
searching for missing friends and rela.
tives.
Scores Injured.
In addition to the rs to 100. people
who e severely injured, there are
scores who were cut and bruised
by being thrown about in the unin-
1ured cars when the trains collided.
Nearly every person in the first half
dozen coaches needed some medical
attention. The most severely hurt
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geons. Their wounds were hastily
dressed, and hemorrhages stopped,
after which they were carried to the
wrecking train from Detroit and laid
on cots to be brought to Detroit hos.
pitals for further treatment.