The Detroit times., 1911-02-06
SIX KILLED IN !.
ONTARIO WRECK
Express Messenger Ends His Life
with Revolver as Flames Sweep !.
Toward Him. !. 80
THE DEAD. 49, -
PETER M'FARLANE, baGEaEcmas-

THE DEAD. 49,. -
PETER M'FARLANE. saEEasemas-
Wv. T VIII Ia s.. :ssr... n.....-
RIcnARD TuRNER, engineer.
= smi d sssma.. ..,..
and bsiievea 40 have bsrned ia death.
THE INJURED.
W.. IT, Henderson, atty solicitor,
Brsntferdt WiIiianp McIntosh, customs
eierk nrsstford, Rsbsrt Erfett, enEi-
saaly, burned, VIII reeever .
PARIS, Ont, Feb. 6.-Pinned under
the wreckage OF a Grand Trunk pas
senger train near here late Saturday
night and facing a terrible death In
the flames that were sweeping toward
him. John W. Whiteiaw, ran express
messenger; shot himself dead Four
others were killed, one rs missing and
believed to be dead, and several in
jnred.
Whitelaw. always carried a revolver
and although crushed under the
wreckase Of his car. he remained
conscious and urged rescuers to ex-
tricate him. The wreck was burning,
however, and the workers were driven
back, leaving the express messenger
to face death In the flames.
vIf you don't help me soon. III end II
ALL" moaned whitelaw. A moment
later there was a muffled shot He had
kept his word. - t--.r 49,. s.t
The wreck was head-on collision
on the .Buffalo-G oderich branch OF the
Grand Trunk. Train No. SO, running
from Bhffalo to Goderich. met light
engine running east three miles north
west OF Paris. The wreckage was
consumed by IRE.
When whitelaw's body was re-
m0ye1 yesterday morning the black
en60 sexpfess revolver was found
within o few inches or the eharred
bones that had once been the arm and
hand Of the Inflated messenger.
blame for the wreck is said to rest
with. Engineer Eckert, OF the light en-
gft1ey whose orders were to lie up at
Dfumbo To allow No. 80, westbound,
to pass. When the Drumbo office re-
ported him gone, hasty call to Paris
was made, but IL was too late, the
passenger train had left. Thus Il
happened that, before the engines
ever met In the fatal crash, the chief
dispatcher in Stratford had ordered
out the auxiliary and called for
number of doctors to 60 down on a
special train to attend the injured
lack May, assistant mail clerk. Is
a has home. in Gederich,. I'm a serious
condition from burns. He cannot re-
lisbon except that he crawled through
- - A. 49,
prectically split n two. Heguaa lust
n time, to escape the flames which
consumed the entire train in q few
May. Conductor Ausebrook. and
Brakeman Scheifie were the only
trainmen on No. 80 to escape with
their lives. These arrived at their
homes In Goderieh at o'clock yester-
day morning. .tAnsebrook, who has
never before In his 35 years with the
road, experienced wreck. IL suffer
ing from nervous shock.
The crew of. the light engine was
made up OF Engineer Robert Eckert,
Fireman Albert Locke and Conductor
Meechafn, all of Sarnia tunnel.
4 Engineer Eckert. Of the light en-
zine. said he did not see No. 80 Until
almost on It He had reversed his en-
gins and jumped. He believed En-
eineer Turner, OF No. 80, had not seen
his headlight.
McFarlane, the baggageman. was
taken from the wreck alive but died
at the farmhouse Of William Scott
sir hours later from frightful burns
caused by escaping steam. James
Gray, Sarnia, had his head and shout