The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-02-28
AZ BODIES ARE
Recovered FROM
indiana v RECK
Canadian and Interstate
Limited Trains on Michi-
gan and N. Y. Central
Crash at Crossing
ONLY FOURTEEN OF
DEAD ARE IDENTIFIED
MAN WHO WITNESSED CATAS-
TROPHE FROM THE DAY
COACH, RELATES STORY
Or THE WRECK

Porter, Ind, Feb. 2s.-The DEAN
list of last nights railroad wreck here
was fixed today by H. o. seipel.
coroner Of Porter county. at AZ. The
morgue at Chesterton contained SO
bodies, some Of them only fragments.
four We're still under the wreckage.
Is hours after the accident. and two
were at u hospital in Michigan City.
Only IA had been positively ident-
fled by relatives or friends as fol-
fows:
At Chesterton morgue:
Howard Arney, Cleveland Ohio.
Mrs. Emma Bevier, Augusta, Mich.
Mrs. Florence See, Michigan city,
Ind.
Pearl May Cavanaugh, years old;
adopted daughter of Mrs. See.
Mrs. Lillian Baehr, Michigan City,
Ind.
Arthur f. Eckman, two year old
nephew of Mrs. Baehr.
Justin Collins, London, Ontario.
Gordon Campbell, Revelstoke, Il. C.
Carl Deland, fireman OF New York
Central train, Of Elkhart, Ind.
W. G. Engler, travelling on pass
from Chicago to Detroit.
Claude johnson of Tlkhart, Ind,
engineer of the New York Central
train.
Peter Cain, Regina, Saskatchewan.
Mrs. Barnhart Kramer, Michigan
City, Ind.
At Michigan Hospital:
+. NJ. Giddings, identified from
watch, had railroad ticket to Augusta,
Mich.
Unidentified dead were: Woman at
Michigan City hospital supposed TO
be wife OF +. NJ. Giddings. -Four
bodies under wr,ckage. Twenty-three
bodies ut Chesterton morgue.
Partial Identification OF dead which
the coroner refused to accept as posi-
tive, and other information from train
records and persons on the train,
gave the following list:
Miss June Campbell, stenographer TO
the Michigan Central division superin-
tendent at Jackson. Mich.
n. j. Campbell. IS, supposed to be
brother of Miss Campbell.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. J.. Mueller, Michi
gan City, Ind.
-. -. McCray and wife. Chicago,
Ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Il. Van Ripper
Michigan City, Ind.
49,. -. Wooler. Detroit, Mich
Mrs. Justin Collins. London, Ont.
/ Her husband was listed among the
positive identifications.
Frank Doyle. Michigan City. Ind.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. II. Goldstein. De-
trot, Mich.
Fred I.eggett, Niles, Mich.
Mrs George Baker, Michigan City.
/ Ind
l.. W. Keeler. Michigan City. Ind.
A. Matthews. Maconda. Wis.
A pathetic incident Of the catastro-
phe was revealed in the reported
death Of Albert van Riper. lie was
employed by the Michigan Genital.
and was to have been pensioned In
n day or two. having spent so years
at the throttle without ever having
IltA WIN All lhNlhtAlAs AhN NlfhAA
day in Chicago visiting relatives and
was returning to his home on the III
fated train To retire on a pension.
Forty-two bodies had been collected
early this forenoon from rhe wreck
last night when the Canadian and the
Interstate limited trains on the Michi-
gan Central and New York Central
lines respectively. crashed at cross
ing. It was diamond shaped cross
ing, permitting the New York Gen.
trial train. which struck as the other
sprawled, deraiied. across the inter-
section. to rake the two Michigan
Central cars instead of cutting one
at right angles,
The forward coaches OF the New
York Central train, which was west
bound. lay upon the two splmtered
coaches o. the Michigan Central train,
which was east bound, through whlci
Ii plowed while travelling nearly 40
miles an hour. The darkness and the
tangled mass ot wreclSage made res
cue work slow officials waiting for
daylight before attempting an accur'
ate check OF dead and injured.
A statement by Tower1nan j. c
Cook. on duty at the crossing, de
clarcd the block two miles away. was
set against the Michigan Central train
while the track was left clear Cor tn,
New York Contra ltraln. Railroad Of
ficials at the scene OF the wreck sait
Engineer W. r. Long OF jackson
Mich. who escaped uninjured, de
clarcd he had received n clear sigma
and had checked Il with hls fireman.
lie left carly today Cor his home.
When the Michigan Central trail
struck the deraiier ak esuthcd feeI