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

BILE until the arriSal of wrecking
trains from Saginaw. Detroit and
Grand Rapids made It possible to send
them to- Iona and Detroit. The
twenty-eight dead bodies first taken
from the wreck were shipped to Iona
and the injured were placed on two
trains. one of which headed for De-
troit and the other for Iona. There
were about thirty-five injured people
on each train.
Later in the day the body of Ed
Corwan. the head brakeman of the
passenger train, was taken out of the
wreck.
Fireman Knowles died on the re-
lief train en- route to Detroit, bring
ing the list of dead TO thirty, with a
possibility that more bodies might be
found In the wreckage and that sew
eral of the injured may die.
Responsibility is put squarely upon
the crew of the freight train by Off
cials of the road. Officials who ar
rived at the scene Of the wreck soon
after the accident secured from the
crew Of the freight the orders under
which it was running and which
clearly showed the position of the
passenger excursion train and that the
freight had encroached upon the Oth-
er trains running time. The special
train was due at Salem at 9:10 a. m,
and at Plymouth at 9:20 a. m. 1t
passed Salem on time. The time card
of the special was telegraphed to the
freight crew in the form of a train
order, and this order, with the sigma
lures of the freight train crew at
tached, was recovered by the officials
Of the road. The freight crew left the
scene early, but railroad officials say
they explained simply that they had
forgotten.
The collision occurred at 9:13
O'Clock and Nthe freight train should
have reached Salem at $40 to be
within their orders.
The excursion train left IOnia,
crowded with men, women and child
rem at o'clock this morning. 1t was
the annual excursion of the shopmen
of the road to Detroit.
Every family had its lunch baskets,
and many of them were eating when
the two trains crashed together. The
impact was terrific and a number of
passengers sitting near the windows of
the rear end of the undamaged
coaches were thrown through the win
dows to the ground. There was a
panic among the passengers in the un-
injured coaches for few moments.
Then, as the uninjured people real
lied that they had not been hurt, they
rushed from the cars to the rescue of
their friends and relations who were
pinioned among the wreckage ahead of
them. Families were scattered among
different ears, and there were frenzied
searches for missing relatives Moth
ers ran screaming up and down
searching for their children, while
many of the young people. were ~
frantically calling for th&r parents.
s. Dennehy, young man of Ionia, was
In the last coach, while his sister was
In one of the middle coaches and his
father and mother were In one of the
most seriously damaged ears.
1--WE felt the jar when the brakes
were applied" said Mr.. Dennehy, "an1
then before anyone had time to stand
up or leave his seat came the crash
of the collision. In the confusion OF
the moment did not realize that the
car I was in was undamaged, and
seeking the quickest exit to the open
air, ! jumped through the window t9
II found my sister several cars
ahead uninjured. but my mother was
standing, supported by a couple of
men, with her head and her hands
covered with blood. Father was sit
ting inside the window of one of the
forward ears.Nhls right arm and shoul-
der free and leaning outside the win
dow, but his left hand caught fast
where the seats had iammed together
in the car. It took three or four
minutes to get him free"
Jay Eddy, a 20-year-old young MAD
from Ionia, had a hOrrlfying expert
ence. He was sitting in seat with his
mother, and when he regained his
senses after the crash, she lay dead
beside him. They were In the first
car of the train and young Eddy said
! that he could see the freight ap.
preaching as the excursion train
swung around the curve.
THE next moment the trains came
together with "a horrible crash" he
said. ~ was soaked with water from
the tender of the engine which was
torn to pieces. The air was full Oi
flying objects and terrible noises. WheT
4 / regained my senses ] was pinned II
I the wreck. I looked around for my
motherl and there she was dead. One
iof her arms was cut off, and lay 8
couple of feet away and she was hor'
ribly mingled
II managed to release myself ant
/ drag my poor father out of the wreck.
/ Eddy pulled his mothers body t'
the bank of the ditch, where he coy
cred II with an open umbrella. TIL,
fshock and horror of his mothers deal
lhad driven him nearly frantic when h'
was first noticed by a party of rescu
ers.
Miss Mamie Speckin, Of Ionla, wa
sitting In the rear of a coach in tht
middle of the train. The shock o.
the collision threw her to the foo
and piled over her covering OF cush
ions and loose articles swept from th'
forward end. Screaming In her darl
prison and unable to realize what has
happened. the girl remained for sOm'
time penned In until rescuers heart
her cries and dug her out unintured.
One of the passengers who jumped
| from window Of the rear coach ate
4 the collision almost aliknted upol
Engineer AlYOrd of the passenger trail
who had leaped from his engine anl
sat on the bank. watch In hand tryinl
to learn from It whether any blame 70
the mistake which had cost so heav
ily rested on him.
! The crash OF the collldlng train
was heard for a great distance up ans
down the tracks, and many farmer
working nearby realizing that trag
edy had occurred, hurried from thet
homes with bedding. cloth for ban
dages and stimulants. They joined II
the rescue work while physicians hur
rled 10 the scene from all the neigh
boring towns. Numbers Of the unin
iured women passengers tore strip
from their clothing TO help bandag
1up the wounds Of the suffering befor
1.-The surgeons arrived on the relic
trains.
Two More Victims Of Wreck
salem, Mich. July 20--Two NOR
lives we're lost tonight as an lndlrec