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


HOMER SMITH, a boy, Ionia.
ALBERT TRAUTWINE. whose body
was cut in two, IOnia.
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.
ID. X. MERRILL, aged 5S years,
Ionia.
HENRY REYNOLDS, a Pere- Mar
quette engineer. Ionia.
CHARLES M,CAULEY. SR., Ionia.
A. l.. HERBERT. Ionia.
EDWARD DURLING, Ionia.
CHARLES BROAD, aged IS, Ionia
WILLARD STAGER, Ionia.
WILLIAM GEOTT, Ionia.
MRS. AUGUST RICHTER, Ionia,
FRED FlTzGERALD, lonia.
BRAKEMAN ED. CORWIN.
FIREMAN KNOWLES.
I6nla.
FRANK LATHAM, aged 20 years,
Ionia.
BENJAMIN DURLING. aged IS
years, Ionia.
CHARLES FENToN, fireman
freight engine Grand Ledge.
HARRY WILLIAMS, aged II yeara
lonia.
+. j. PIXLEY, conductor passenger
train, body ground to pieces and
scarcely enough fragments found IA
Identify it.
Herman and Daniel Hess. aged Is
and Is years, respectively We're the
sons Of Charles Hess. A widow and
six other children are left by Hess.
James Wizard was a well known
minor league base ball player who
had played for the Central league and
also at Omaha. William stager hae
come to Ionla recently from Kan as
City, whore his mother now lives. j i.
ward Gallagher is the son of an K
mayor of l0nia. Henry Reynolds Wa.
Il Marquette engineer bound for De,
troit on the excursion train to take oul
his regular run.
A. l.. Herbert machinist in the
Pere- Marquette shops, had moved e
l0nia from Tfavers City only lasi
Wednesday to be near his wife,
mother ft
The passenger train OF eleven cars
carrying the Pere Marquette shor
employees Of Ionla and their families
TO the Michigan metropolis for thei
annual excursion. was running at high
speed, probably fifty miles an hour
down a steep grade. II struck the
lighter locomotive of the freight train
with such terrible force as to turn the
freight engine completely around. The
wrecked locomotives this afternoon
lay side by side. both headed east.
ward. Only few of the freight
trains ears were smashed, and II tool
only a few hours work to remove al
traces OF them from the scene. But
behind the two wrecked locomotives
six cars Of the passenger train lay
piled in hopeless wreck. Four oi
the passenger coaches remained OF
the track undamaged. and were used
to convey the dead and Injured tC
Iona: one coach was entirely undam.
aged with only It's forward trucks Of
the rails. These were the rear five
cars The two coaches next ahead o.
these were teiescoped. The next cal
Z forward stood almost on end after tb,
wreck. rs forward end resting on The
roadbed and the rear end high in th'
air upon the two telescoped coaches
that had been following It. TIVE
coaches were thrown crosswise OF tn,
track. and lay suspended from banl
10 bank OF the cut. five or six fee
above the rails OF the baggage ca
not enough remains 10 show whore I
had been t0hsed. Portions OF the bag
gage car and Of the locomotive ten
lers and freight cars we're piled II
an indeserbable mass of debris.
James Boyle. a farmer, was work
ing IN a field probably 100 feet ava!
from the track when the two train
approachcd from opposite directions
The freight was moving slowly ul
The heavy grade and had Just reaches
the curve when the passenger trail
anpeared running nj high speed
Farmer Boyle saw The passenger en-
elneer shut OFF his steam and appl
the brakes and saw the crews OF boil
engines jump Just before the crash
lie ran 10 the tracks where he founl
the unIniured passengers from III
rear coaches running forward, an
Joined with Them IN pulling out th
Injured. who could be seen on efer
hand. The dead we're placed IN q roy
alongside the track. and the lnjure