The Detroit times., 1911-10-19
FIREMAN KILLED, SEVERAL
INJURED WHEN TRAIN
RUNS INTO OPEN SWITCH
Special Carrying Odd Fellows
From Saginaw, Wrecked In
Pere Marquette Yards Here.
CRASHES INTO FREIGHT
Crew Of the Latter, Switch
ing In Yards, Is Blamed
For Accident.
CRASHES INTO FREIcHT
THE DEAD.
John Armstrong. fireman, Sag
lnaNa Mlnh

THE DEAD.
John Armstrong. fireman, Sag
NAV, Mich.
THE INJURED.
John Dunlop, No. 2s5 Williams
ave-, Detroit.
Frank Phelps. No. 4s chops-pI,
Detroit.
Emmett vredsnbsrs, No. s17
6randon-ave., Detroit.
William Henksl, No. 4eo Scot
ten-ave., Detroit.
Fred carris, North orand-bivd.,
Detroit
Samuel Beatty. engineer. sag
Inaw, Mich.
One man was killed and several
hurt In a head-on collision between
a Pere Marquette passenger train and
q freight train In the railway yards
at Rougemere, near Delray, about 1855
Thursday morning. The victim or
fatal injuries was John Armstrong.
of Saginaw. Mich, fireman OF the pas
senger train.
The passenger train was a special.
two coaches. baggage car and engine,
which was chartered, Wednesday
morning, by the members OF the de-
gree teams of Riverside lodge, No.
30S, and Diamond lodge, I. o. q. f.,
to take them to Saginaw. where they
exemplihed some degree work In con-
nection with convention OF Odd
fellows, now in progress there. Eigh-
ty-hve were aboard on the trip,
80 from Diamond lodge and r.25
from Riverside. They left SagiH Nv
late Wednesday night and everything
went smoothly along the line untif'
Rougemere was reached. Here, the
train, when running at about 60 miles
an hour, according to the statement o.
Conductor Robert Wilson. to The
Times, ran into an open switch and
coliided with the freight. which had
been shunting In the yards.
The collision caused the engine and
tender OF the passenger train TO
double up like jack-knife. and
the passengers suffered a severe
Jolt. Most OF them were doing In
their seats and were unable to realize
what had happened for a minute or
two. Some were pitched out Of their
seats and sent sprawling over the.
! aisle and other parts of the car. Few
I kind. Yet no one in the coaches was
seriously hurt Among those injured
were the following:
william Henkel, OF No. $50 Scot
ten-ave., bruised all over the body.
taken home In an automobile: Emmet
Vredenberg, No. SIT Brandon-avey
Fred Carris. living on the North
Grand-blvd.; John Dunlop, No. zS5
WILLIAMSBURG. cut by flying glass ana
knee hurt, and Frank Phelps. NO. -
Chope-pl., cut by glass and spine nurt.
Dunlop and Phelps were taken home
! In taxicabs.
AID. Richard Watson was one OF the
passengers on the Inflated train. He
says that. while he escaped injury
himself, he will long remember the
Jolt he got. The impact was 30 great
that the roof OF the baggage car or
the passenger train was torn on ana
| thrown over the passenger trains en-
/ CINE on TO the engine Of the freight
train. Three cars OF the freight were
completely demolished, and the loco
motive pushed into an upright POSI-.
ton. The engineer and fireman or
the freight were not I'm the cab when
the crash came. and 90 escaped Injury,
\ AS soon az Conductor Wilson found
T, that none or the passengers had been
seriously hurt, he FASTENED to the en-
CINE to see how the engineer and ire
man had Jared. He found Engineer
Samuel Beatty. OF Saginaw, working
over his fireman. vainly trying to re-
lease him from between the cab Of
the engine and the tender. The ire
man was firing up" at the time OF
the collision and was caught between
thke engine cab and tender. He was
held fast from the knees down ana
the efforts OF Ave men failed TO re-
! lease him. He was alive when Engi-
neer Beatty went to his rescue. but
f, was unconscious and never uttered q
sound or word up to the time he
died, at 4:40, almost an hour after
(; the accident.
Armstrong was about Is years old,
! Conductor Wilson didn't know wheth-
er Armstrong was married or single.
II was the first time that Conductor
+, Wilson had worked with him.
Engineer Beatty sustained deep
scalp wound In the collision, but ne
paid no attention to his own wound.
being solicitous only for the welfare
of his fireman. He waited until nc
/ reached Detroit to have the injury
dressed.
I The Detroit police were informed
of the accident soon after II occurred,
and sent all the hospital and police
Ceatiauea on PsEe Flight.
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