The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1909-06-19
. kHEN BODIES or WRECK VICTIMS
WERE BROUGHT HERE
BOTS TRAIN CREWS 10 BLAME
We're Acting Contrary to Orders and
Railroad RsguIations--Dead Man
Mainly to Blame.

brought in was one that will never be
forgotten by those who visited the
I place. The bodies were horribly man
gled but none beyond perfect identif
cation.
A special train was run from the
scene OF the wreck 10 this city bearing
the bodies OF the four victims, Charles
McCarty, engineer Of the Mass freight.
Edward Murray, engineer on the log
loader, Jonn Cayelearo. breaKman on
the freight train aud Christ Schroeder.
hreakman on the pickup train The
bodies were taken in hand at this point
by the railroad boys and given every
attention that was possible so that by
Sunday night they were ready for
shipment 70 their several homes.
Coroner Dawson was summoned i'm
mediately on receipt Of the wreck news
and went overland 10 Amasa where he
met the train which had just arrived
with the bodies The road authorities
simply picked ap the bodies and placed
them aboard the car and ran down 20
Amasa with them rather than let them
lie there in the hot sun All Of the in
iured men and those uninjured were
on board SO that the coroner was able
to proceed with the inquest right then
and there
A jury of Amasn citizens was i'm
4. pancled and heard the testimony Of
about dozen witnesses The most
important point was getting at the
Norders given the freight crew and that
Wa easy for in the pockets Of Engineer
McCartv was found the tissue copy Of
the orders given him at sidnaw. 1t
reads
Channing 6.19, 1909
Jansen & T..
!. After seven (7 q. m work train,
phillips. Cond. win protect against
extra east. Jansen, sond between Tunis
and Kelso-
TO. X
These same orders were given Com
ductor Jensen who exhibited them to
the Coroner and gave him copy Of
them
lt will be seen that tine freight was
10 have remained at Tunis, eight miles
away until ZOO O'Clock and then, ac-
cording TO rules. remain live minutes
longer to allow for any discrepancy in
watches. 20 that the freight should not
have left Tuns until 705 The
watches on the bodies Of the dead men
stopped at Z O3 so that AZ the time Of
the wreck the freight train should have
been eight miles away on siding.
Jensen, the conductor OF the i'll fated
train, says that they stopped at Tunis
and lay there 25-mnutes. The steam
had gone down IN the engine and Nc
Carly was busy getting it up so that
he lJensenl walKed back to the caboose
and went at work on his report Ev-
identity. when McCarty got steam M
y he forgot about his waiting orders and
pulled ont. thickiDg that he had stop.
ped 20 get up steam, Jensen didn't
think 10 look at his watch when the
train started nor did the two breakmen
and hremen remember the orders.
Jensen was az work in the oaboose
when the crash came and supposed
that II was broken air hose and did
nj move FOR several minutes until ap-
prised Of the trouble,
In the mean time, the pickup train
should either nave been Ia clear nc
100 or have bad flag ont TO protect
it ns the train rules are explicit ON
this point. Had Phillips Of the pick
up train. had his flag man out on time
the freight would have been stopped az
htae siding. Another violation Of the
rmlea By the pickup crew is the fact
that the train WAS being backed mp.
caboose first This is strictly prohib.
ited By law when passengers or work
men are on board.
The jnry brought in verdict hold
ing the deceased engineer .respousibl,
for the wreck
The wreck Ia one of the very worst
ever recorded on the Superior division
In addition 70 the four men killed
seven men were injured. most Of
them workmen, on the pickup train.
The fireman On the freight was saved
by jumping but be sustained frac
ture to his leg. The engineer ane
brakeman evidently started to 1uml
together and we're caught Schroeder
was talking to the log scnler who wa