The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-03-03
Al BODIES FOUND
IN INDIANA WRECK
Many So MutiIated Identification
Is Said to Be Impossible.
81 HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED
Indiana Railway Commissioners Start
investigation at Scene of Catas.
trophe, While Michigan Central
opens Probe at Niles, Mich

| Porter, lnu., AafCn /, - OFlA -One
bodies of victims of the wreck here
| were taken to the Chesterton mOrgue.
| Many Of the bodies were so mutilated
identification was said to be impos-
sible. One batch of human remnants
and clothing jumbled together in Il
basket was officially labeled zone
| body
The last body was believed to have
been taken from the wreck last night
when the New York Central lOcomo-
| tive was undermined.
The task Of clearing tracks of
wIeckage practically has been ended,
The New York Central locomotive,
which charged through two day pas
Senger coaches of the Michigan Cen
trail train, was lifted by special ma
chinery last night.
Railroad Begins Probe.
The Michigan Central investigation
of the catastrophe began behind closed
doors ~ the offices of the Niles divi-
| sion headquarters.
Long and Block, the principal wit
| nesseS in any investigation which may
| be started, We're taken to Niles in
| special train from Michigan City. Of
| ticials Of the railroad were reported
| huTying to Niles from all parts Of
| the country
The New York Central, train had
been travelling toward Chicago through
the darkness at 80 miles an hour
when it reached the crossing. Stimuli
taneously the Michigan Central train,
which had missed block signal and
struck a derail near Porter on its east
bound journey, was humping over the
ties to a stop across the right of way
Of the Interstate limited.
Wooden Coach a Trap.
The wooden day coach of the Mich
iean Central train was squarely in
| the path of the oncOming locomotive.
| The electric headlight warned the Oc-
cupants of the coach of their danger
too late. They started from their
seats. Some leaped to the doors. But
none escaped In an instant the power
fui engine had struck.
Two Michigan Central coaches were
hurled westward from the rails more
than fifty feet. Three other cars Of
the Canadian limited were turned
over on their sides. Both tracks were
strewn with scraps of iron and wood
and the bodies of the victims.
The darkness and the immense
amount of wreckage spread across the
| junction made rescue work almost inn
possible until dynamite had arrived
and the mass of debris could be
| loosened.
Indiana Authorities investigate.
Investigation by the Indiana public
railway commissioners shows both
railroads equipped with a block sys-
| TEN of signals. The Michigan Cen
trails first signal is ALSO feet from the
crossing. The New York Central sig
nails are approximately the same dis
! lance.
There also is a buzzer system, on
the Michigan Central the alarm being
5000 feet from the crossing and on
the New York Central 1000.
The first train to enter the buzzer
system is automatically registered in
the crossing tower and the signals set
by hand against trains ON the other
road.
The New York Central train came
into the block nearly a minute before
the Michigan Central train and the
| towerman gave the New York Central
crew the right of way. Meanwhile the
Michigan Central engineer had passed
the first signal, before IT was turned
against him.
. A freight train and engine stood on
the sidetrack. Smoke from this en-
CINE is believed to have blocked out
the home signal, which was set against
the Michigan Central.
The Michigan Central train hit the
deraiI, which clearly showed that the
block had been set against it, and
plowed over the ties and tracks, tear
ing them up as it went across the New
York Central right of way.
Revised List of Identified Dead.
Howard Arney. Cleveland, o.. Fan
ME f. Ballou, Wheaton, H.; Mrs. Lii
ian Baehr, Michigan city. wife Of j.
W. Baehr; Mrs. George Baker. Michi-
gan city, Mrs. Emma Bevier, Angus
ia, Mich; Peter Cain, Regina Sas-
katchewan; Gordan Campbell, Revel-
stoke, b. c.; Il. J. Campbell eighteen:
Pearl Cayanaugh, nine, Michigan City
niece of Mrs. See Justin Collins, Lon
don, Ont; Mrs. Justin Collins, Lon
don, Ont. Karl Deland, Elkhart. Ind.
fireman New York Central train: Ar
thur G, Eckman, two, nephew of Mrs
Baehr, C. w. Engler Detroit, Michi-
gan Central accountant; Mrs. Richard
Eva, identified first as June Camp
bell, T. NJ. Giddings, Kirbky, Wyo.;
C. II. Goldstein, Detroit; Mrs. G. II.
Goldstein, Detroit; woman believed TO
he Mrs. Glddlngs; Louis Heck, Jack
son, Mich. Claude Johnson. EIkhart
Ind, engineer New York Central train:
Mrs Barnhart Kramer, Michigan City:
Fred Leggett Niles, Mich; Samuel
Livingston, Chicago; McCray,
Chicago; Mrs. Sarah Moss, Montreal;