Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-07-26
KILLSTHIRTY
BANS Collide NEAR SALEM
MICHIGAN.
Than 70 Are Inlured-Excurslon
rain Smashed into Freight Train
c,.w on Latter Train to Blame
o.olorable Scenes Follow the Disas-
FARMERS Came to Rescue. =.

Nj. are dead and more than 70 injured, |
u onv of them seriously, as the result |
N beadon collision Saturday be-
4 oen this village and Plymouth,
Il. hon a Pere Marquette excursion
~ ain hound from Ionia to Detroit
o.bed into a westbound freight
ain in a cut located a mile east of I
lom. Following is the list of dead
Il. Homer Smith Ionia, boy; Albert
\. autwine, Ionia, whose body was cut
\. two; John Tofel, Ionia; Charles
" oss Ionia; Herman Hess, Ionia;
\. sniel Hess, Ionia; William Cornell,
M MIA: Don Rogers, Lowell, Mich;
Bck Jones, Ionia; Mrs. Abraham
(, adv. Ionia; Edward Gallagher, aged
i. years, Ionia; Frank Douse, Ionia;
K. Merrell, aged So years, Ionia;
enry Reynolds, Pere Marquette en-
Wy neer Ionia; Charles McCauley, Sr
ue mia; A. F. Herbert, Ionia; Edward
~ urling Ionia Charles Broad, aged
~ Ionia; James Vissard, Ionia; Will
~ I'd stager, Ionia; William Grams, a
~ bung schoolboy, Ionia; William Colt,
~, mia; Mrs. August Richter, Ionia;
Jay red Fitzgerald, Ionia; Brakeman Ed
ny Orwan, Fireman Knowles, William
~ vans, 20 years old, Ionia; Frank
~ aham, 10, Ionia; Benjamin Darling,
~ Ionia Charles Fenton, fireman of
~ be freight engine; Harry Williams,
" Ionia, and E. j. Pixley, conductor
W. assenger train, body ground to pieces
] found To i6nnfff1y
Ist The passenger train of II cars, car
on ing the Pere Marquette shop en-
lay owes of Ionia and their families to
opt Michigan metropolis for their an
VS. al excursion, was running at high
"a eed, probably so miles an hour,
The own a steep grade. 1t struck the
me- ghter locomotive Of the freight train
ing ih such terrible force as to turn the
9TH eight engine completely around The
ifc rocked locomotives lay side by side,
9th headed eastward. Only a few of
be freight trains cars were smashed.
nd it took only few hours work
remove all traces of them from the
ne cene But behind the two wrecked
lat locomotives six cars of the passenger
1IdQ lay DllCu III q nOpCAC0b WISChs
a. our Of the passenger coaches re-
ke named on the track, unchanged, and
10 ere used to convey the dead and in
e. ued to Ionia. One coach was entire
~ undamaged, with only it's forward
81 uCks off the rails. These were the
Oh ear five cars. The two coaches next
70 head Of these were telescoped. The
ext car forward stood almost on end
De ter the wreck, it's forward end rest
all ng on the roadbed.
lie Responsibility is put squarly upon
lie he crew of the freight train by Of
icials Of the road. Those who arrived
ed at the scene of the wreck soon after
nd The accident secured from the crew o
AT The freight the orders under which i
vas running and which clearl!
u showed the position of the passenge
q excursion train and that the freigh
n had encroached upon the other train
j running time.
3. Every family had it's lunch basket
and many of them were eating whel
a, The two trains crashed together. TIL
av impact was terrific and a number @
m passengers sitting near the window
i. IN the rear end of the undamage
coaches were thrown through tn
!. windows to the ground. There was
!. panic among the uninjured coache
lOr few moments. Then, as the III
!, injured people realized that they ha
: MOI been hurt, they rushed from tn
ears to the rescue of their friends an
= leauons who were pinioned anon
ne Wreckage ahead Of them. Fam
: nes were scattered among the diffe
. cut cars and there were frenzie
! searches for missing relatives. Mot
]. erS ran screaming up and dow
y searching for their children, viii
4 many OF the young people were {
n "alucally calling for their parent
X 'Onn Eddy, 2O-year-old young ma
q !iOn lonia, had horrofying expel
II slVe He was sitting in a seat Wi
ulS mother, and when he regained b
/. seuses after the crash she lay del
&c car.
\. Engineer Looked at Watch.
n one Of the passengers who Jump
d aOn window of the rear coach aft
y We collision alighted on Engineer
,vlu OF the passenger train, W
IT "apeu from his engine and sat do1
~ lne bank, watch in hand, trying
d tSain rom it whether any blame
t Tae o mistake which had cost so heav
Q rested with him.
ile crash Of the colliding trai
i S %as heard for great distance up a
? III "n the tracks and many farmC
{ s aSSlIng nearby, realizing that tri
bo s naa occurred, hurried from tn
a aOues with bedding, cloth for bal
~ ses and stimulants. They Joined
ria H. rescue work, while physicians h
boS S 70 the scene from all the nei
irs.s towns. Numbers of the IN
Fo u women passengers tore str
nm Oa their clothing to help banda
M ue wounds of the suffering
ba Ieiore the physicians arrived