The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-26
Exact Number of Those Who
Perished in Durand Coli
sion Uncertain.
PARTS OF CHARRED BODIES
CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED
Many Who Escaped Death Are
Badly Injured; Some viii
Probably Die.


wrecked and burned Pullman sleeping
car Nebraska probably has disappeared
all hopes of determining the actual nun
Der of lives lost late last night when
the rear section of the Boston and
Montreal express from Chicago crashed
into the forward section of Grand
Trunk train three miles east Of this
village. Estimates Of the number of the
dead vary from eight or dozen to
| possibly twenty.
The Known Dead
MRS. ALMA WOODWARD, Belle.
field, n, ID.
MRS. e. GILPIN, 425 East Forty,
sixth place. Chicago.
Miss SWINGER. trained nurse,
travelling with Mrs. Woodward.
| UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD.
Portions of charrcd bodies of from
SIX to twelve persons.
Badly injured;
Burt Mitchell, Battle Creek. engi-
necr of train. No. ID; head bruised; con
dition critical.
Arthur Wall. Edmonton. Alberta, Can
ada; face and hands burned.
Mrs katae Mclean, Chicago; right
leg fractured.
Mrs Lester DochIcr Tacislock, Ont.
fractured leg and bruises.
The injured who were taken to the
hospital at Durand are;
George Nelson. Battle Creek, fireman
on No. i; badly scalded; probably will
die
Clinton A. Davis, Montreal; scaIdod;
probably fatal
Mrs. M. Steltey, Dubuque, Ia; upper
lip cut and severely bruised.
Charles Spencer of Battle Creek, en-
ginecr on No. 4, is said to have been
badly injured. but his name does not
appear on the list given out by the rail.
road officials.
Conflicting Reports
One report was that twenty passcn.
gers had been in the Nebraska yestcr.
day at Chicago and that eight more
were taken on as the train proceeded
eastward; but the car porter said there
were only eighteen persons asleep in
the car when the wreck occurred. If
the number on board was eighteen the
six injured passengers taken today to
Flint and Durand hospitals and the six
bodies recovered would account for
twelve, leaving six persons to be ac-
counted for.
The forward section which was known
as No, IA had stopped because of an ac-
cidcnt TO the aIrbrakes and Engineer
Mitchell had crawlcd under his engine
to locate the trouble. Mitchell g head
was terribly crushed when his engine
was lolted forward by the shock of
collision
The locomotive Of the second section
known as No. ploughed half way
through the rear sleeper of the forward
train and the locomotives Is frcbox set
fire to the Pullman car.
The passengers IN the rear berths had
not the slightest cha6ce to escape and
thoses nto killed as the locomotive
forged through the sleeper were burned
TO death. Half dozen passengers, how.
ever, seriously injured, were rescued
from the forward berths.
Impossible to Identify.
The body Of James Mclean has not
been identified but he is known to have
been lost In the wreck and the woman
and child who have not been identified
are believed to be mother and son. as
the little one was found in the woman 3
arms A blackened watch q diamond
studded crucifx and n locket bearing
the initials sFH. S. l., were found i'll
the search for clues to the identity of
the burned corpses
The cause of the wreck is u mystery
and an inquest will be held.
Engineer Spencer of tho second sec.
tion of the train said today that he was
almost on top of the forward section
when he heard the torpedo signal that
there was u train standing on the track
ahead of him. An exploded TORPEDO
was found today ffty-rail lengths from
the scene of the collision and Assistant
Superintendent Ehrke of the Grand
Trunk railroad said that the second see
tion conld have been stopped in S0C
feet.
Brakeman's Version,
!, Brakeman G. Graham Of the forward
section today asserted that he ran back
nearly a mile with the torpedo and that
he waved red light to stop the on
coming train. Graham also disputed
: Engineer Spencer of tho second train
that the rear lights of the forward see
ton were not burning.
This evening Graham could not bc
located by the railroad officials.
7 The wreck was characterized hy al
the grcwsome scenes attending a rail
road disaster at midnight. Farmer,
WHO ran from their homes to assist il
the work Of rescue were held bnck bI
the flames and compelled to stand heIp
less witnesses of the roasting of a hu
man body, which burned and fell Il
pieces before their eyes
Superintendent Ehrke's statement,
, say that the assertion that there wer,
lust nineteen passengers on the wrecke et
= car is borue out by tho train chart
= of Pullman Conductor HAYNES and tn,
list given out at Chicago by III. G.. FL
lott. first assistant general passenger
agent of the Grand Trunk
: The uninlured passengers. according
= to Superintendent Ehrke, were checked
mp when the train started eastward
D after the wreck.
Following, is u detailed list of th,
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