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

| tNcntN-elBht dead bodies ffSt taken
from the wreck were shipped to Iona
u 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 I'd
| Corwan the head brakeman of the
! passenger train, was taken out Of the
wreck.
Fireman Knowles died on the re-
/ lief train en- route 10 Detroit bring
| ing the list of dead TO thirty, with "A
! possibility that more bodies might he
! found I'm the Wreckage and that seV-
cral Of the injured may die.
| Responsibility is put squarely upon
1 the crew of the freight train by Off
! cials Of the road. Officials who ar
I rived AT the scene of the wreck soon
after the accident secured from the
crew of the freight the orders under
/ which il was running and which
! clearly showed the position of the
I passenger excursion train and that the
! freight had encroached upon the 9TH
er trains running time. The special
train was due at Salem at 9.1O a. m,
and at Plymouth at 9:20 a. m. It
passed Salem on time. The time card
Of the special was teiegraphed 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 ut 9:i3
O'Clock and the freight train should
have reached Salem AT $40 Ia be
within their orders.
The excursion train left lonia.
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,
ana many ~ them We're eating whom
the two trains crashed together. The
impact was terrific and a number of
passengers sitting near the windows OF
the rear end of the undamagpd
coaches were thrown through the win
dOWs to the ground There was
panic among the passengers in the un-
injured coaches for a few moments.
Then, as the unintured people real
ized that they had not been hurt. they
rushed from the cars to the rescue Of
their friends and relations who We're
pinioned among the wreckage ahead OF
them. Families We're scattered among
different cars, 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 "a,
frantically calling for their parents.
:. DennehA. luahg uian oi iona. wds
in the last coach, while his sister wa
in one Of the middle coaches and his
father and mother We're In one of the
most seriously damaged cars
we felt the jar when the brakes |
We're applied" said Mr. Dennehy, "an1 |
then before anyone had time to stand !
M or leave his seat. came the crash !
of the collision In the confusion OF
the moment ! did not realize that the /
car ] was I'm was unchanged. and |
scelting the quickest exit to the open (
aif, 7 Jumped through the window 80 /
the ground
II found my sister several cars !
ahead uninjured, but my mother was |
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 cars, his right arm and shoul-
der free and leaning outside the win
dow. but his left hand caught fast
where the seats had jammed together T.
In the car. II took three ~ four
minutes To- get him free"
Jay Eddy, a 20-year-old young man Il
rom lonia, had a horrifying expert
nee. Tie was sitting In "a seat with his /
libAlifif anu NHtH ne ftEdliitu MS
lenses after the crash, she lay dead
beside him. They We're in the first
ar uf the train and young Eddy said 4
hat he could see the freight ap-
lroaching as the excursion train
wung around the curve.
The next moment the trains came
ogether with a horrible crash" he
aid. 81 was soaked with water from
he tender of the engine which was
orn To pieces. The air was fun of
IVing objects ana terrible noises When
regained my senses ! was pinned IN
ne wreck. ! looked around for my
mother, ANA there she was dead. one
4 her arms was cut of. and lay a
uuple of feet away and she was hor-
IDLY mangled
II managed To release myself and
rag my poor father out of the wreck
Eddy pulled his mothers body to
he bank of the ditch. where he Gov I J
red u with an open umbrella. The I
hook and horror of his mothers dea,h J
ad driven him nearly frantic when he Z
vas first noticed by party of rescu- J
Rs. 81
Miss Mamie Speckin. of Ionia, was =
itting In the rear of a coach in the :
iiddle Of the train. The shock of =
he collision threw her to thc floor Z
nd piled over her covering of cuSh- .
ms and loose articles swept from the j.
onward end. Screaming in her dark :
rlSOn ana unable To realize What hau "
app"ned. the girl remained for some :
NE penned in until rcScu, rs heard f,
er cries and dug her out uniniurcd.
one of the passengers vino jumped
'om window of the rear coach after q
ne collision almost alightcd upon I,
ngineer Alvord Of the passenger train
h0 had leaped from his en@ine ana 81
a. on the bank. watch in hand trying -
learn from il whether any blame for .
ie mistake which had cost 50 heav-
y rested on him. q
The crash of the colliding trains q
as heard for a great distance ~ ana q
own the tracks. and many farmers "
Orking nearby realizing that a trag-
~ had occurred. hurried from their -
Dmes with bedding. cloth for ban .
ages and stimulants. They Joined ih y
h. rescue work while physicians hur- .
ed To the scene from an the neigh ~
lring towns Numbers Of the unin- "a
Ircd women passengers tore strips -
ON their clothing To helm bandage ~
, the wounds OF the suffering before -
Ie surgeons arrived ON the relief ~
aims.
Two More Victims of Wreck. r,
Salem. Mich. July 20-Two more {,
yes were lost tonight as an indirect r.
.euIf pf the pert Maruueffp wreck NJ