The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-26
Six Bodies Recovered From
the Ruins of the Wrecked
Pullman Car Nebraska and
Six Persons Were Injured
DETAILS OF DURAND.
MICHIGAN, DISASTER
Engineer of the Second Section
of the Boston & Montreal
Express Probably to Blame
for the Awful Catastrophe.
RIGID INQUIRY PROMISED

N UHAND, Mich, Aug. 25.-With the
cieaFing away today of the ruins
OF the wrecked and burned Pull
man sleeping ear Nebraska prob
AMY mas disappeared all hopes OF de-
ternining the actual number of lives
lost late last night, when the rear see
ton OF the Boston a Montreal Ex-
press from Chicago crashed into the
train three miles east OF this village,
Estimates of the number of the dead
vary from eight or "A dozen 10 possibly
twenty.
Charles Spencer of Rattle Greek. en-
Eineer ON No. 4, Ia said 10 have been
badly injured, bur his name does not
appear ON the list given out by the
railroad officials.
One report was that twenty passeu-
gers had been in the Nebraska YES
terdRy 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 II
the number on board was eighteen the
six injured passengers taken today TO
Flint and Durand hospitals aud the six
! bodies recovered would account for
twelve, leaving six persons to be ac-
counted for.
The forward section. which was
known as No. Il, had stopped because
OF an accident to the air brakes. and
Engineer Mitchell had crawIed under
| his engine TO locate the trouble. Mitch
| ellis head was terribly crushed when
/ MS engine was JOlted forward By ghe
shock of collision.
The locomotive OF the second Sec
| ton, known az No. l. plOWed half
! way through the rear sleeper OF the
forward train, and the IOcOmOt
fiTebOx set fire 10 the Pullman car.
No Chance Of Escape.
The passengers in the rear berths
had not the slightest chance TO escape.
those 4 InRamlf
forged through the sleeper were
burned to death. Half a dozen passen-
gers, however, seriously injured, were
rescued from the forward berths.
The body OF James Mclean has NOT
7 been identified. but he is known ID
have been in the wreck. and the WOm-
an and child who have not been ideutt-
fled are believed TO be mother and son,
Woman's arms. A blackened watch.
diamond studded crucifix and a iOckeC
bearing the initials II. S. L." We're
found in the search for CleWs 10 tho
identity Of the burned cOrpses
The cause of the wreck Is a mys-
terry and an inquest viii be held.
Engineer Spencer Of the second sec
ton of the train said today that he was
almost on top OF the forward section
when he heard the torpedo signal that
there was train standing on the track
ahead Of him. An exploded torpedo
was found today fifty rail lengths from
]
ant Superintendent Ehrke OF the Grand
/ Trunk railroad said that the second
section could have been stopped In 500
feet.
Brakeman Waved Red Light.
Brakeman G. Graham of the forward
| section today asserted that he ran back
nearly a mile with the torpedo and that
ne waved a red light TO stop the on
coming train. Graham also disputed
Engineer Spencer OF the second train
that the rear lights OF the forward sec
tiOn were not burning. This evening
Graham could not be located by the
railroad officials.
The wreck was characterized by an
the gruesOme scenes attending a rail-
road disaster at midnight. Farmers
who ran from their homes 10 assist in
the work Of rescue were held back by
the flames, and were compelled 10
stand helpless witnesses Of the roast
ing OF human body. which burned and
fell 70 pieces before their eyes.
superintendent Ehrke's statements
say that the assertion that there were
just 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
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