The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-02-06
SIX KILLED IN
ONTARIO wreck
Express Messenger Ends His LIE
With Revolver as Flames sweep
Toward Him.
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THE DEAD.
PETER M'FARLANE, sssgsEeaas-'
W. u. TYE, mnii clerk.
,. w. WHITELAW, express messen-
RICHARD TURNER, s.xise<r.
,. ID. SMITH, areman- ~
IL. W. CHOzfEH, passenger, missonx
and believed 10 have burned 60 death.
THE INJURED.
w. It. Henderson, city sellefter
Brantfords Wfiffam Ncfnfosh, custonsn
clerk, Brsntferd, Robert Errett, easl-
neer light extras John May. mall cleRk,
badly burned, Will recover. st
PARIS, Ont, Feb. 6.-Pinned under
tho wreckage OF Grand Trunk pas
senger train near here late Saturday
night and facing terrible death In
the flames that were sweeping toward
him, John w. Whitelaw, an express
messenger. shot himself dead. -Four
others were killed, one Is missing and
believed to be dead, and several In
jured.
Whitelaw always carried revolver
and although crushed under the
wreckage OF his car. he remained
conscious and urged rescuers to ex-
tricate him. The wreck was burning,
however. and the workers we're driven
back, leaving the express messenger
to face death In the flames.
'If you don't help me soon. I'll end It
ALL" moaned Whitelaw. A moment
later there was muffled shot. He had
kept his word.
The wreck was head-on collision
on the Buffalo-Goderich branch OF the
Grand Trunk. Train No. SO, running
from Buffalo to Goderich, met light
engine running east three miles north
west OF Paris. The wreckage was
consumed by fire.
When Whitelaw's body was re-
moved yesterday morning the black
ened express revolver was found
within a few inches OF the charred
bones that had once been the arm and
hand OF the ill-fated messenger.
Blame for the wreck is said TO rest
with Engineer Eckert, Of the light en-
gine, whose orders were to lie up at
Drumbo to allow No. 80, westb0und,
to pass. When the Drumbo office re-
ported him gone, hasty call to Paris
was made, but 1t was too late, the
passenger train had left. Thus II
happened that, before the engines
| ever met I'm the fatal crash. the lcIfof
dispatcher In Sfratford had. ordeto4
out the auxiliary and called for .
number OF doctors to so down on .
special train to attend the injured.
Jack May, assistant mail clerk ID
at his home in Goderich, In q serious
condition from burns. He cannot re-
member how he got out after the col
lision except that he crawled through
the bottom of the mail car, which was
practically split in two. He was just
| I'm time to escape the flames which
consumed the entire train in q few
minutes.
! May, Conductor Ausebrook, and
Brakeman Scheifie we're the only
trainmen on No. SO to escape with
their lives. These arrived at their
homes I'm Goderich at o'clock yester-
day morning. Ausebrook, who has
never before in his 80 years with the
road, experienced a wreck, is suffer-
| ing from nervous shock.
The crew of the light engine was
made up OF Engineer Robert Eckert,
| Fireman Albert Locke and Conductor
Meecham.- all of Sarnia tunnel. Since
the wreck, IL is stated, the conductor
has not been seen. and may have Ned
the country.
Engineer Eckert, OF the light en-
CINE, said he did not see No. so until
almost on IT, He had reversed his -en-
CINE and jumped. He believed En-
gineer Turner, of No. SO, had not seen
his headlight.
| McFarlane, the baggageman. was
taken from the wreck alive but died
at the farmhouse of William Scott
six hours later from frightful burns
caused by escaping steam. James
Gray, Sarnia. had his head and shoul-
ders cut.