The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-09-01
SCORE MAY Be DEAD
CLEARING AWAY OF RUINS Re-
MOVES POSSIBILITY OF
KNOWING DEAD.
CAUSE is NOT YET KNOWN
Heap of Wreckage Takes Fire and
Passengers Are Trapped in Berths
of Cars. Estimates of Dead Vary
from Eight to Twelve.

Durand.-With the clearing away
| of the ruins of the wrecked and
| burned Pullman car Nebraska, prob
| ably has disappeared forever all hope
| of determining the actual number OF
| lives lost when the rear section OF
| the Boston and Montreal express
! from Chicago crashed into the for
| ward section on the Grand Trunk
railroad three miles east of this vii
lage. Estimates of the number or
dead vary from eight to possibly
twenty.
The known dead are:
Mrs. Alma Woodward, Bellefeld,
n. ID.
Mrs. f. Gilpin, 425 East Forty
sixth place, Chicago H.
James Mclean, letter carrier, Chi
cago, III.
Miss Swinger, trained nurse, tray
cling with Mrs. Woodward.
Unidentified woman.
Unidentified child.
Portions of charred bodies, be-
lieyed to represent from six to twelve
persons were also found.
The car porter says that there
were only eighteen people asleep in
the car when the wreck occurred.
The forward section, which was
known as No. IA, had stopped be-
cause of an accident to the brakes,
and Engineer Mitchell had Crawled
under his engine to locate the trouble,
Mitchell's head was terribly crushed
when his engine was jolted forward
by the shock of the collision, and
little hope is entertained for his re-
Covery.
The cause of the wreck is yelled
in mystery, and an inquest will be
held by Coroner S. +. Patchell.
Brakeman G.. X. Graham of the
forward section said he ran back
nearly a mile with the torpedo and
that he waved a red light to stop
the oncoming train. Graham dis
puted the contention of Engineer
Spencer of the second train that the
rear lights of the forward section
We're not burning,
The wreck was characterized by
gruesome details. Uninjured passen-
gers and farmers who ran from their
homes to assist in the work of res
cue were held back by the flames and
compelled to stand helpless witnesses
of the roasting of human bodies,
which burned and fell TO pieces be-
fore their eyes.
Engineer Charles Spencer of No. 4
was running fast TO make up a few
minutes and declares that he put on
brakes and reversed as soon as he
heard the torpedo, placed on the
tracks to warn him. but it was too
late. He claims No. 4 had no tail
lights. His fireman is missing.
No. 4 ploughed through the rear
Pullman. The passengers had no
chance for their lives
1t is declared here that both crews,
with the exception of the engine
crews, were strikebreakers held over
by the Grand Trunk since the strike
was settled
One survivor is Clinton A. Davis,
22G Stanley street, Montreal. He was
en- route from Fargo, n. D., with his
invalid mother, and a trained nurse.
Davis says both women were burned
to death and their bodies could not
be recovered. He is burned about
the face and cut in several places,
nut lHe pnS SlCldllS lHluh ne Will re-
cover.
Fighting the flames that were
quickly making it impossible ever to
know the complete loss of life, the
rescuers blistered their whole bodies
taking out the headless body of a
man. They also took out the body
Of a woman burned so she never can
be Identified
Supt Ehrke of the Grand Trunk
gave out statement that six passen-
gers We're killed, five were injured
and eight esCaped without iniurY.