The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-07-22
OUTING TURNED INTO a HORROR
Railway Employees the Victims of a
Crew of Their Fellows
NEGLECT OF ORDERS TIE CAUSE
Freight Crew Responsible for the
Terrible Disaster-Near All the
Victims from One Town
in Michigan.


injured. many of them seriously, as the
result Of a head-on collision between |
this village and Plymouth when a Pere /
Marquette excursion train, bound from
bound freight in u cut located at
sharp curve of the Pere Marquette rail
road about a mile east OF Salem. The
passenger train of eleven cars, carry
ing the Pere Marquette shop employees
OF IOnia and their families TO the
Michigan metropolis for their annual
excursion was running at high speed,
probably fifty miles an hour down a
steer grade. 1t struck the lighter loco
motive of the freight train with such
terrific force as to turn the freight
engine completely around.
Those Who Suffered Death.
Following is the list of the dead
Homer Smith (boy), Albert frautwine
(body cut in two, John Tofel, Charles
Hass. Herman Hass, Daniel Hass and
William Cornell = all of Ionia; Don
Rogers, Lowell, Mich; Dick Jones,
Mrs. Abraham Eddy Edward Gal
lagher aged 49,. Frank Douse. L. X.
Merell, Henry Reynolds Pere Mar
quette engineer). Charles McCauley.
Sr.. Al. f. Herbert, Edward During.
Charles Broad aged 49,. James Wizard,
Willard Stager, William Evans aged
20), Frank Latham (aged IS years.,
Benjamin Durlng-all of Ionia; Chas.
Fenton, fireman Of freight engine,
Grand Ledge; Harry Williams (aged
10. Ionia; e. ]. PiXley, conductor of
passenger train; William Colt. Mrs.
August Richter, Fred Fitzgerald-all
Of Ionia; Brakeman Ed. Corwan and
Fireman Knowles.
Left a Widow and Six Children.
Herman and Daniel Hass, aged 10
and Is years, respectively, were the
sons of Charles Hass. A widow and
six other children are left by Hass.
James Wizard was a well-known min
or league ball player who had played
in the Central League and also at
Omaha. Edward Gallagher is the son
Of an ex-mayor of Ionia. Henry Rey-
nolds was Pere Marquette engineer
/ bound for Detroit on the excursion
train to take out his regular run. AL
| F. Herbert. machinist in Pere Mar
! quette shops, had moved to Tonia from
| Traverse City only last " nesday to
| be near his wifeS mother.
EIGHT INJURED DANGEROUSLY
/ Seven of These at Detroit-OtherS Who
Were Wounded.
Detroit, July 22.-In the terrible dis
aster on the Pere Marquette railway
there were more than 100 injured. OF
There are sixty-one injured people at
their homes in Ionia and forty two
were brought to the hospitals in this
city. OF the long list of suffering per-
sons at Ionia, but one, Mrs. NJ. Dur
ling. whose husband and son were
killed, is reported to be in a danger
| Gus condition. Seven of the injured in
the local hospitals are not yet out Of
danger.
They are: Banner Higgins, concus-
sion of the brain. cuts about the head;
Mrs. Catherine Selbach. fractured ribs
and internal injuries; John B. Ander-
son. fractured skull. fractured leg. and
internal injuries; Abraham Eddy, suf-
fering from shock of wife's death; VIII
liam Beals. leg and back injured; Mrs
Nellie Dalson, spine injured, and Mrs
Catherine Smith, skull injured = al
residents of Ionia.
Among the others injured the follow
ing are the most severe cases: Mrs
George Taylor. right leg broken. right
eye and head bruised: Joseph Feeney
left leg broken. right leg bruised; Mrs
David Otto, left leg broken. bruised
about head; Milo Smell. left leg broken
bruised about leg and face; Mrs. Chas
Dawson. aged IS. possible fracture OF
spine; Mrs. Harvey Town, Orleans
Mich, fractured left leg; Leo Kelkosan
aged 10. loses half right hand; Mrs
A. C. Fuller. left leg broken: Mrs
Jennie Smith, burt internally; Edward
Bender. left arm broken in two places
Mayor John \. Bible. OF Ionia. say:
he estimates that one in every fifty Of
the little city's inhabitants was either
killed or injured in the wreck.
An official statement SAYS of The
that Conductor Hamilton. of the loca
freight. remarked to the operator a
Plymouth on pulling out that b,
thought he could make Salem befor,
the arrival of the special" The freigh
had sixteen minutes time in which
under the rules. it should be Oh tn,
side track at Salem. six and a hal
rr4fas from Pfvmoufb
In fact responsibility is put SQUARED,
upon the crew OF the freigh
train by officials of the road Thos
who arrived at the scene of the wrecl
soon after the accident secured from
the crew Of the freight the orders IN
der which it was running. and whicl
clearly showed the position OF the pas