The Cairo bulletin., 1910-08-26
NUMBER KILLED
IS NOT KNOWN
OF BODIES IN THE
GRAND TRUNK WRECK MAY
REPRESENT SIX PEOPLE
CAUSE NOT EXPLAINED
Trainmen Tell Contradictory Stories
Former Train Stopped To Re-
pair Brakes--Second Loco
tive Smashed Pullman.

Durand, Micn., Aug. 25.-Superin-
tendent Ehrke, of the Grand Trunk,
tonight gave out the statement that
six passengers were killed, five in
jured and eight escaped without in
jury last night in the Grand Truak
rear end collision, three miles east
of here, when the Pullman car "Neb-
raska,' on the East bound train No,
Ia was demolished and set on fire BY
the locomotive of passenger train No,
A.
Ehrke says the assertion that there
We're nineteen passengers on the
wrecked car Is borne out by the train
chart of Pullman Conductor Haynes
and the list given out at Chicago by
H. G. Elliott, first assistant General
Passenger Agent of the Grand Trunk
The following is a detailed list of
passengers as given out by the rail
road officials:
Dead.
James Mclean, Chicago.
Mrs. Alma Woodward, BelfelI, N.
D.
Mrs. Woodward's nurse, from Hall
fax.
Mrs. Squires, residence unknown.
Ten year old son of Mrs. SQuires.
Mrs. r. M. Gilpin, Chicago.
The Injured.
Mrs. Leslie Dochlar, Tavistock Ont
Albert n, Watts, Edmonton, Alberta
Mrs. F. Fl. Mclean, Chicago, moth
er of James Mclean.
Mrs. s.. A. Sheltes, Chicago.
Clinton A. Davis, Montreal
To the list of injured passengers
must be added the names OF two
trainmen seriously injured George
Nelson, fireman of the second train,
probably fatally scalded, ana Bert
Mitchell engineer of the forward
train mad his head so crushed that
he may die.
One report today was that twenty
passengers boarded tht Nebraska"
yesterday at Chicago and eight more
were aiken on as the train proceed
ed eastward, but the car porter de-
clared there were only eighteen peo-
pie asleep in the car when the
wreck occurred. IL the number on
board was 18 the six injured passen-
gers taken to Flint and Durand hos
pitfalls and the six bodies recovered.
would account fol- only twelve, leav
| ing six persons TO be accounted for
in the fragments OF human bodies
brought to the morgre today or to be
counted as having been entirely de-
stroyed by fire.
The forward train known as No.
IA, had stopped because OF an acci-
dent to the air brakes.
The locomotive of the second train
known as No. 4. plowed half way
through the rear sleeper Of the for
ward train and the locomotives fire
box set fire to the pullman car. The
passengers in the rear berths had not
the slightest chance of escape and
those not killed by the crashing tim
bers as the locomotive forged
through the sleeper, were burned TO
death in the fire that followed. Half
dozen passengers, however. serious
| ly injured were rescued from the
| forward berths and taken to hospitals
at Durand and Flint.
The cause of the wreck Is veiled
mystery and an inquest is to be held
| by Coroner S. p. Patched. Engineer
Spencer Of the second section said to
day that he was almost positive that
he was on top of the forward section
| when he heard the torpedo signal
| that there was a train standing on
| the track ahead of him. An exploded
| torpedo was found today fifty rail
lengths, or 1,500 feet from the scene
of the collision, and Ehrke said tnat
tine second section could havt been
stopped in 800 feet.
Brakeman Graham, OF the forward
section, today declared he ran back
nearly a mile with the torpedo anC
that he waved a red light to stop re
on-coming train. Graham alst
disputed the contention CT Engineer
Spencer that the tail lights CT the
forward section were not burning
This afternoon Graham corldd not
be located by the railroad officials.