The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-07-21
many DE WHEN
TRAINS CRASH
COLLISION BETWEEN PEHE Nah.
ouETTE ExcuRslca AND
FREIGHT TRAINS.
BLAME FREIGHT CREW
FOR Running on Other Tarin's Tire
IA Passengers Of undamaqsd
Coaches Rush to Rescue Of
Those Beneath Wreck.

| Salem, Mich. Jnly 20.--ThiFty ona
people are dead and M fe than 10 aga
injured, many seriously, All the ras
Isnlt OF o heal On collision today ~
tween this village ana Plymouth whan
Id Pere Marquette excursion train
bound from Ionia to Detroit CRASHED
lint westtound freight train ut cat
lin a sharp curve. A5
The passenger az the elven cars
lcarrying the perc Marquette shop eul
ipIoyes of II MIA and their families IA
Detroit fur their annual excursion
vas running probably nifty miles an
tbour dean n steep grade II struck
ne locomotive of the freaghf train
With saeh fierce III To tsrn th@ freight
engine completely around. alshoaaa
'only L few freight cars were smash
ed. Behind the two wrecked locono
Itives six cars nf the passenger trAia
Hay piled III hopeless wreck.
Farmer Sees Accident.
FIVE passenger coaches remained
On the trarx undamagad and were
used To chawey the dead and injured
III Ionia. Ise two coaches newt ahea
III those, were taleacroped The lisxt
sar forward stood almost On its emil
after Tile wreck, lta f5rward end waa
rea Ing IN the roadbed and The roar
md was high In the air upon tho tw3
telaschnpad coaches
James Boyle, farmN working III
field near the track saw Me accident.
He says the passenger snginesg shut
OH steam and applied tne brakes aSa
the crcss of both engines jumped inst
before the crash. He ran ID the
racks whera he founs the uniniurnl
passengers from he rear coaches run
ming forward ard he jaIned with them
TN removing the dead and iriurnl
from the wreck. Tie dead were
placed ID 4 row along F'-,r---TF
and the injured were oxen ~ ionla
and Detroit The gS dead bodies nrst
taken from the wreck wfre shipped n
Ionia. Later In the daH the holy AZ
Ed Goodwin. heal br2kelan on the
passenger train, was takap fSom tae
wreck.
Fireman Kin wlos died onlthe relief
rain on route to Detroit. bringing the
list OF dead / thirty. with the posi-
lilly that more bodies wilk be foensl
n the wreckage and several az the In
ured may die.
Freight Crew Responsible.
The responsibility Is put upon thu
rev Of the freight tarin by the offi-
lals Of the road One of those who
rived at The scene Of the wreck ION
fter the accident, secured from the
rev Of the freight train the ordefsf
nder which Ii was running and which
is said showed the position of the
assenger excursion train, ami that
he freight had encrouched upon the
Their trains running time.
The q llision occurred at 9:13
clock and the freight should have
cached Salem at $40 TO be within
heir orders
The impact when the trains struck
as terrific, and a number OF passsn-
crs Sitting near the windows OF the
sar and unchanged coaches were
lrown through the windows 10 the
round. After momentary panic
he uninjured people rushed TO the
.ssue Of these ninioned among the
reckage. Familie. were scattered
nong the different cars and there
ere frenzied searches for missing
datives.
Sees Train Approaching.
Jay Edwards was sitting in seat
i'm his mother and when he regain
his senses after the crash she lay
'ad beside him. They were In the
st car OF the train. and Edwards
I'D he could see the freight an
Oaching as the excursion train
iung aronn dthecnrve. THE next
omeni the trains came together
tn horrible crash ne said. The
! was fun of flying objects and Ter.
,le noises When | reeained my
nses vas pinned in the wreck.
Dked around for my mother aud
ere she was dead One Of her arms
Is cut of. and lay couple OF feet
Jay and she vas horribly msngIei.
TO release myself ami
jagged my mother out Of the wreck
Farmers Join Rescuers-
The crash Of the colliding trains
Is heard a eonsiierable distance
4 many farmers hurried from their
mes ami Joined in the rescue work.
iile physiciaHs hurried to the enc
~ al nelghhoring towns. All the
al sre from loHIa except one
The dees are.
Don Rogers. Lowell. Mich: Hos e.
nth. AlbeFt TraatWine Iehn Tofef.
Iarles Hess. Herman Hess Da1.el
rs, william CDrneiis Dick Jun4s
IS. Abraham Eldv. Eissrd Gaia