The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-07-24
SAME OLD STORY
Thirty People Killed in a Rail Road
Accident.
THE FEARFUL WRECK

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Freight Train-At Least Thirty
Are Known to be Dead, and Sew
enty Others Are More or Less Ser
iously Hurt.
Thirty people are dead and more
than 20 injured, many cf them SER
iously, as the result Of head-end
collision Saturday morning near: Ply
mouth, Mich, when a Pere Marquette
excursion train bound from lonla to :
Detroit crashed into %Westbound
freight in a cut located at sharp
curve about a mile east of Salem
The passenger train Of II cars,
carrying the Pore Marquette shop
employees of Ionia and their families
to the Michigan metropolis for their
annual excursion, was running at
high speed, probably SO miles an
hour, down a steep grade. 1t struck
ie lighter locomotive, of the freight
train with such terrific force as to
turn the freight engine completely
around.
The wrecked locomotives lay side
by side, both headed eastward. Only
q few of the freight cars were dam
aged and it was only a few hours
work to- remove all traces Of them
from the scene. But behind the TWO
wrecked locomotives six cars Of the
passenger train lay piled in a hope
! less wreck.
Four Of the passenger coaches re-.
NAMED on the track unchanged ana
were used to convey the dead and in-s
iured to. Ionia; one coach was en-
tirely undamaged with only its for
ward trucks of the rails. These.
were the rear five cars. The two
coaches next ahead Of those were tel
escoped. The next car forward. stood
! almost on end after the wreck, lts
forward end resting on the roadbed
and the rear end high in the air upon
the two telescoped coaches that mad
been following it.
Two coaches were thrown cross
; wise of the track and lay suspended
from bank to bank of the cut i've or
six feet above the railroad. Of the
baggage coach nothing was left TO
). show where it had been tossed Por-
tions of the baggage car and $ot ,ll the
:, locomotive tender and freight cars
were piled in an indescribable mass
of debris. oszs;'.,.
The 2S dead bodies first t AIKEN AIKEN
from the wreck were shipped to
= Ionia. and the injured were placed on
two trains, one ofSwhich headed tor
fDetriot and the other for ionla.sIshere mere
were about 5 injured people on eacn
train. Z. 8 -, =:
:, Later in the day the body OF Ed
lECorwan. the head brakeman or stne
passenger train, was AIKEN out OF
the wreck.
Fireman Knowles died on there
lief train enroute to Detroit, bringing
S the list of dead to 3 o, with q posi-
bility that more bodies might be
found in@the wreckage and that sew
eral of the injured may die.
Responsibility is placed squarei9
T I'M to the crew of$the freight train by
s officers of the road. Officials VINO az.
: rived at the scene of the wreck so0n
s after the accident, secured from tne
e freight the orders under which 1t was ;as
: rrnning and which clearly showed
3 the. position of the passenger, eASui, sA;E
5 sion train, and that the freight mad
S encroached upon the other traan :
4 running time. The special tram Wa:
due at Salem at $40 a. M, ane ls a, q,
t plymouth at $50 a. n. II passed
: Salem on time.
E The time card OF, the spec,al was
: telegra phed the freight crew " ~ she
2 form of train order and tnls. ofoe.
: with the signatures OF the .tre.s'a,
+ train crew, attached, was sreco7ss,s'l .,,
). by the officials of the road. 8 I ne y.
s freight crew left the scene early, guy
S railroad officials said that tneyzex;
, planned simply that they hae Iorsos, :, ;
!. ten. The collision occurred AZ - io
) o'clock and the freight tram snouio ,'I
: have reached salem at 9:lo 70 S3oe
} within their orders. +