The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-21
AN EXCURSION TRAIN
 SMASHES INTO FREIGHT
Employees at Shops of Pore Mar
 quette the Victims.
Had Just Started On Days Outi.e Ts Detroit, whsn Crew of Fr.a~ht DisregafdeA Orders and Caused
 Terrible Catastropne.

,ha sS'oidi or them seriously. aa .ne result of head-on collision today between this village and PIvmor,h when Pere Marquette excursion train oouhu rom Iona to Detroit crashed in' 70 "estbound freight in a cut locst.
 ~ sharp curve of the Pere Mar. Salem. 'e east ot
 Following is the list of dead:
 Homer Smith, Albert Trar,,
 John Tantet. Charls Hess tI~u. Hess. Paul Hess. William Cornell DicI Com c"nes. Mrs; Abraham Eddy, Edward nanagher. Frank Douse, l.. K. Mar- Ieii' Henry Reynolds, Charles McT,an- icy. ST. A. F. Herbert, Edward Dnr- iihs' Sharles Broad. James visard. vii. tara Stager. William Gramse, Wiliis m oo.t, Mrs. August Richter, Fred. Fitz- Mich.; Brakeman Ed. Corwan. Eirsn,a. hhowies. four unidentified bodies at Iona. oouies at
 The most seriously injured arc,
 Neise Jensen, Iona, scalp wound: Mrs jennie smith. Iona, hurt internaiiv. the brain. ch
 serious-Mrs. Charles Dawson Ion. possible fracture of spine; Mrs char,ss Doison. Iona. crushed abdomen. mi. ueniined ,', man. cut about eye and chin. VIII probably die; J. R. And.rsnr Iona, condition serious,
 UT the remaining three score or mors hJured. nearly all live at Ionia. Their nurts' consist of cuts. bruises and frac. lures ana al are expected to recover.
 EmDIOyes of Read
 The passenger train of eleven c.r. carrying the Pere Marquette shop ems pioyes or Ionia and their familiss ,o the Mich1gan metropolis for their an- nuAi excursion, was running at hiwh speed. probably fifty miles an bnnr uown steep grade. It struck inc nsm.er ,,,s.n locomotive of the freight train with such terrific force es to turn ,h. ire,ght engine completely around
 The wrecked locomotives tbts a,,.. noon lay side by side both beadea eastward. Only few of the freisbt ears were smashed and 1t was only .
 hours work to remove all traces .. W taen from the scene. But behind os ~o wrecked locomotives six cars or the passenger train lay piled in hopeless wreck. Four of inc nassen ger coacnes remained on the track un- oamaged and were used to convey tha oead and injured to Ionia; one coach was entirely undamagcd with only its forward trucks of the rails. These were the rear five cars.
 me two coaches next ahead of these were telescoped. The next car for~ ward stood almost on end after th. wreck. It's forward end resting on inc road bed and the rear end hfrb in ths AIT upon the two telescoped coache. that had been following fl. Two coaches were thrown crosswise of ina track and lay suspended from hank tc uahk or the cut five or six feet above the rails. Of the baggage car not enough remained to pick up. Manw freight cars wee piled in a tanrIed mass of debris.
 Saw Engine Crew Uump.
 James Beyles. a farmer. was work ing in field 400 feet away from -r. track when the two trains approacbaS rom opposite directions. The freight was moving slowly up the heavy rrsds ana had just reached the curve when the passenger train appeared running at high speed Boyle saw the pasgen- ger engineer shut off his steam nnd apply the brakes. and saw the crews or noth engines jump Just before tho crash. He ran to the tracks where ne round Inc unintured passengers rom the rear coaches running for ward and joined with them in pulling out the injured, who could be seen m every hand -
 Ihe dead were placed fin a row aIonr- side the track an dthe injured were Inade as comfortable as possible un- LII the arrival of wrecklng trains from
 
 made It possible to send them to Ionia and Detroit. The twenty eight bodies nrst taken from tho wreck were ship- ped to Ionia and the injured were placed on two trains, one of which headed for Detroit and the other for lohia. There were about thirty-five Injured people on each train.
 Later in the day he body of Ed Core wan. the brakeman of the passenges train, was taken from the wreck
 Fireman Knowles died on tho -e. lief train en route to Detroit, bringing the list of dead to thirty, with a pos sibility that more bodies might be found in the wreckage and that aev- eral of the injured may die.
 Up to Freight Train.
 Responsibility is put squarely upon the crew of the freight train by of fcfals of the road who arrived at tho scene of the wreck soon after the &C., cident. and who secured from the crew of the freight train the orders under which 1t was running and which clearly showed the position of the pas senger excursion train, and that the freight train had encroached upon the other trains running time. The spe. cial train was due at Salem at ciD n m. and at Plymouth at 9:20 a. m It passed Salem on time. The time card of the special was telegraphed to tho frelSht crew Tn the form or an ofdeF and this order. with the signature of the freight train crew attached, was recognized by the officials of the road, The collision occurred at S:l5 o'clock and the freight train should have reached Salem at 9:10 to be within their orders.
 The excursion train left Ionia crowd ed with men, women and children at 6 oclock this morning. IL was the an- nual excursion of the shopmen of the Pere Marquette Railway to Detroit. Every family had its lunch basket and many of them were eating when the trains crashed together. The impact was terrific and a number of passen- gers sitting near the windows of the rear and undamaged coaches were