The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1910-09-01
FIVE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
Many of the Victims Were Burned
Beyond Hope of Identification.
Four Passengers Missing

Durand, Mich, Aug. 25.-More than
dozen persons were killed last night
on the Grand Trunk railroad in rear
end collision three miles east Of Durand
when eastbound passenger train No. 4
ploughed through the Pullman sleeper
Nebraska on the rear end of passenger
train No. II. Many Of the victims
were burned beyond all hope Of idenfi-
cation.
The engine of No. 4 ploughed its way
three-quarters of the way through the
sleeping car " Nebraska the last car
the train No. H. catching eighteen per-
SOILS asleep it the coach. The fire box
of the colliding engine then dropped
out and the death coach in few min
utes was blazing from end to end.
AS the flames ate their way through
the splintered timbers of the coach, the
cries of the injured ceased and the odor
of burning flesh deferred the passengers
of the unchanged cars and the farmers
who had hurried from their homes to
assist in the work of rescue. The two
trains were sections of the Montreal
and Boston express and left Chicago
yesterday afternoon.> The engine of
No. IA was having trouble with its air
brakes and two miles out of this city
Engineer Mitchell stopped the train
and with his fireman got down under
meath the engine to make remairs.
Discrepancy IN Stories
Brakeman G. r. Graham, of Eetroit,
was sent back to place a torpedo on the
track and flag the expected second sec
ton. But No. came rushing on at a
speed Of forty miles an hour and rip
ped its way through the Pullman car.
The shock of the collision sent the
whole standing train a little forward
and engineer Mitchell and his fireman
under the stalled engine were badly
hurt
Brakeman Graham declares that he
placsd the torpedo mile from the rear
Of No. II, but that No. paid no atten.
ton to it. Engineer Spencer's story is
different
eve were almost upon No. IA when
we Struck the torpedo" he says. 81
heard it all right, but there was no
lime to stop"
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1895. Page SIS.
NJ.
1t will be recalled that in 1895, the
claim of II. Clay Evans that he was
elected Governor sof Tennessee was
contested on the ground
that fraudulent means have been used
oy the republicans in the campaign.
To investigate the matter Senate
Joint Resolution No. Is was adopted
which by its third section appropri-
lted snm not exceeding $4,000 for
he purpose Of defraying the expenses
4 eaid investigation.
What Captain Hooper thought of
he legality of fraud in elections, when
t Injured to the benefit of the republic
an party, is shown by his record in
he adoption of this resolution. He
-oted 'to amend by striking out Sec
ion 3, y the section that carried the APP ,
!ropriation, and without which, il {
would, of course, have been impossible t
o proceed with the investigation. A I
notion was made to tablt Hooper's /
and on that motion he
oted mo" ,
House Journal of 1896, Page 200.
His recorded vote shows that he
hought of legality sand propriety of
sing fraud in elections when his par
Y was the beneficiary of the fraud. 8
XII. \
Chapter 2, Acts of Extra session of |
800, the Appropriation Bill, carried |
l29, 900 to 100000 a.syear for pensions
)r old disabled soldiers. Y
Captain Hooper voted against this
i'll, just as he voted in 1893, against /
ne Appropriation Bill that carried the =