Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-25
PERISH IN SLEEPER free WAY FOR FIRES
Twelve Known Dead in Grand Authorities Now Bent Upon
Trunk Wreck in Michigan. Saving Human Life.
DOZEN OR MORE ARE HURT APPALLED, BY FATALITIES
Fast Trains Easbound in Foresters Lose Heart
Collision Near Durand. Protecting Timber
BODIES RECOGNITION 1876 RANGERS STILL MISSING
142 Known
ollowed Imnaedi Bring In Many
ly After Crash. Places
Twelve Known Dead in Grand
Trunk Wreck in Michigan.
DOZEN OR MORE ARE HURT
Fast Trains Eastbound in Rear End
Collision Near Durand.
BODIES BEYOND RECOGNITION
Scalded by Steam and Burned by
Fire, Which Followed Immediate
ly After Crash.

FLINT. Mich. August 25.-In a rear
end collision between passenger trains
Nos. and IL, both eastbound. on the
Grand Trunk railway. two miles east of
Durand late last night, twelve persons
are known to have been killed. three were
probably fatally injured and FIVE were Sc
riously hurt. Ii was reported early to-
day that four passengers are missing.
The list OF dead as near as can be as
certained at present follows:
Mrs. Davis, 225 Stanley street, Montreal
Mrs. Lucy T. Gilpin. CAB East 45th
street. Chicago.
Three unidentified women
Small child.
Unidentified man
Five bodies are believed to be still in
the wreck.
List of the Injured.
The following are at Hurley Hos
pital. this city. badly injured:
Bert Mitchell. Battle Creek, engineer
of train No. IA, head crushed; condition
critical.
Mrs. S. A. Sheltes, Chicago, aged
twenty eight; scalp wound and bruises
Arthur Wat. Edmonton. Alberta, Can
ada. aged thirty-three; face and hands
burned.
Mrs. Kate Mclean, Chicago, aged
sixty three; right leg fractured.
Mrs. Lester Dochler. Tavistock. Ont.
aged seventy-four; fractured leg and
bruises.
The injured. who were taken to the hos
pital at Durand, are:
George Nelson, Battle Creek. Mich. fire.
man on train No. 4; badly scalded; will
probably die.
Clinton A. Davis, Montreal, seriously
and probably fatally scalded.
Mrs. NJ. Scuity. Dubuque, Iowa, upper
lip cut and severe bruises.
Charles Spencer of Battle Greek, engi-
neer on No. 4, is said to have been badly
injured. but his name does not appear on
the list given out by the railroad officials
as being taken to hospital at either Du-
rand or Flint.
Crashed Into Sleeper.
Train No. Il stopped to repair a de-
fective brake. when No, crashed intt
the sleeper on the standing train. The
engine Of No 4 pIowed half way through
the sleeper. crushing to death some oI
the sleeping passengers. The wreckag.
of the sleeper caught fire and others ol
tine passengers were burned or scalded.
When the forward train stopped a
brakeman was sent back 10 signal the
train following, but the explosion of the
torpedo, which was placed on the track
as a warning was heard too late by the
engineer of train No. to stop his train
The wrecked sleeper caught fire almost
Immediately, and the bodies II those piE-
ned in the wreckage were In some cases
charred almost beyond recognition. Two
bodies were brought TO Dui and and nj
teen others were taken to Flint, where
they await Identification. The remaining q
bodies had not been located at an early
hour this morning.
Other Coaches Escaped.
Only the sylintered Pullman was thrown
from the rails, the occupants OF other
coaches escaping with nothing more
serious than q severe shaking up. The
uninjured passengers, half clad. endeav-
oring to rescue those in the sleeper. were
driven back again and again by the heal
of the flames and by the escaping steam
and were able to do little toward recov'
ertng the bodies of the dead.
No. IA left Durand at 1O:U2. and No. 4
at 1925. Shortly after leaving DuranC
something went wrong with No. las en-
gine and the train was stopped for re-
pairs. Both trains, IL Is SAID, were man
ned by strikebreakers retained at the
| close of the recent Grand Trunk strike
| with the exception of the engine crews
This, however, could not be verified.
The crew Of No. IA say a flag was sem
stopped to warn approaching trains
George Wilson of the crew of No. say.
the only warning was a torpedo placed
| on the track a short distance behind No
Ia.