Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-07-21

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List of Dead.
HOMER SMITH. a boy. Ionia.
ALBERT TRAUTANlNE. whose body
was cut in two. Iouia.
JOHN TOTAL, Ionia.
CHARLES HESS. Ionia.
HERMAN HESS. Ionia
DANIEL HESS. Ionia
WILLIAM CORNELL. Ionia.
DON ROGERS, Lowell. Mich.
DICK JONES. Ionia
MRS. ABRAHAM EDDY. Ionia.
EDWARD FALLAGHER. aged IS
years Ionia.
FRANK DOUECE. Ionia.
u. X. MERRILL, aged So years.
lonia.
HENRY REYNOLDS, a Pere- Mar.
quette engineer, lonia.
CHARLES M'CAUbEY, SIX, fonia.
A. l.. HERBERT, fonia
EDWARD DURLING, Ionia
CHARLES BROAD, aged IS. fonia
WILLARD STAGER, Ionia.
WILLIAM GEOTT Ionia.
MRS. AUGUST RICHTER. Ionia.
FRIED FIfZGERALD. ionia.
BRAKEMAN ED. CORNlN.
FIREMAN KNOWLES
WILLIAM EVANS. age 20 years.
FRANK LATHAM, aged 20 years.
lona
BENJAMIN DURLING. aged As
years. Ionia.
CHARLES FENTON. fireman
freight engine. Grand Ledge.
HARRY WILLIAMS, aged Il year,.
lunia
r.. j. PIXLEY. conductor passenger
train, body ground To pieces and
scarcely enough fragments found 20
Herman ana Daniel Hess. aged Is
ana Is years. respectively, We're the
sons of Charles Hess 4 widow ana
e'N other children are left by Hess
James Wizard was "A wen known
MINOR league base BAH player who
hdu played for the Central league ana
aus" al Omaha. William Stager htc
come tu lunia recently from Kan rs
'ilN' where his mother now lives d.
W'iu Gallagher is the son of an q
MAYOR of lonia. Henry Reynolds vu.
Marquette engineer bound for i)e-
li"li on the excursion train to take put
hi~ regular run.
A. l.. Herbert machiuist in the
I'ir- Marquette shops. had moved tu
i"nia from Travers city only last
wednesday 10 be near his Wifes
mother
The passenger train Of eleven ears.
carrying the Pere Marquette shop
employees of fonia and their families
0" The Michigan metropolis for their /
annual excursion. was running at high Z
speed, probably fifty miles an hour /
down steep grade II struck the (
Ifhier locomotive of the freight train 4
WIN such terrible force as To turn the 7
freight engine completely around The /.
wrecked locomotives this afternoon I
IaN side by side. both headed east
ward. only a few OF the freight |
Htin's cars We're smashed and ID took .
ONLY few hours work 20 remove an /
20
h'hihd the two wrecked locomotives I
six cars Of the passenger train lay
piled ln hopeless wreck. Four Of .
ihr passenger coaches remained on
ihr track undamaged. and were used
D" convey the dead and injured 20
l"ra, one coach was entirely undam-
aged with only its forward trucks off
The rails These We're the rear five
ears. The two coaches next ahead OF 4
these were telescoped. The next car
forward stood almost on end after the
wreck. its forward end resting on the
'"idhed and the rear end high in the
tir upon the two telescoped coaches I.
ihHt had been following it Two
coaches were thrown crosswise OF the
track. and lay suspended from bank
q" bank ~ the cut. five or six feet
above the rails. OF the baggage car
h". enough remains 10 show where il
had been tossed Portions Of the bag
gage ear and Of the locomotive ten
i"r- and freight cars were piled in
Ah inuescribable mass Of debris
James Royle. a farmer. was work
.ns in field probably 400 feet away
from the track when the two trains
1piTnached from opposite directions.
ihr freight was moving slowly up
'h- heavy Gade and had just reached
N' curve when the passenger train I
appeared running al high speed.
FARMER BOYLE SAW the passenger en-
sin-er shut off his steam and apply
ihe brakes and saw the crews of both
Engines jump Just before the crash. .
h- ram to the tratks. where he found
."" uninlured passengers from the ,
i'aI coaches running forward. and {
l'iArd with them iu pulling out the
.l.l urea who could be- seen ON every b
pa iA The dead were placed in a row 9
-i'hs s-ide The track. and the injured