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Information post is from a paper from "The Arcadia Leader' Arcadia,WI. There are other reference on the web. "Awful Horror In Michigan on the Grand Trunk" Twenty-six passengers died and twenty so badly burned could not be identified.
Battle Creak,Mich. Oct.20 --A most shocking accident occurred about 4 o'clock this morning in the yards of the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railroad close by the roundhouse of this city. At least 25 people lost their lives and twice as many more were injured.
A Raymond and Whitcomb special train of passengers from New York to Boston were returning from Chicago. The train was in charge of Conductor Scott of Battle Creek and Engineer Wooley and took orders at the station to meet at Nichols No 9,the Pacific express going west due at this station at 1:35 o'clock this morning but was 3 hours late.
The conductor or engineer or both of the Raymond Special disobeyed orders and passed Nichols station and collided with the Pacific express coming west at the rate of 30 miles per hour.
The two engines were driven into each other and are a total wreck . The engineers and firemen when they saw that a collision was inevitable shut off steam reversed engines, put on brakes and all jumped or escaped without serious injury. Coductor Burke,of the Pacific Express was badly hurt being caught in the car.
When the collision took place the second and third day coaches on No.9 the train going west, were completely telescoped. The horrible sacrifice took place when the second coach cut through the third coach llike a knife androof passed over the heads of the sleeping ill fated passengers.
In the coaches many were injured but in one of them No 13,called the unlucky coach which had been in accident before, there were 25 dead bodies taken from the wreck by the fireman.
Of the 26 human remains at the morgue tonight : conjectures and only be make to the identify of six. Twenty remains are unidentified.
Listed the identified who died...C.C.Van Dusen Sprotbrook N.Y. died in the hospital--- Mrs. C.C.Van Dusen of the same place. ----W.W.Henry of Woomsocket ,Rhode Island . Mrs.F.R. McKenzie Middleton,Conn.----T.A.McGarvey
Ontario,Canada, J.W. Beardsley of Watkins N.Y.
The coroner has numbered each body now in the morgue and noted aritcles found on each that might aid identification.
A Complete list of the injured as reported at Assistant Superintendent Classford's office at Detroit,Mich. :
W.W. Williams of Toronto, W.W. Ryerse, Port Dover,Ontario-----William Henry Bushell, Brockport N.Y---S.H. Smith--J.H. Smith----Israel Smith,Berry Smith----Mrs. Smith all of Port Plain.N.Y. Mrs.Belle Williams Brockport N..Y.--Frederocl Wertz.Rochester NY Mrs.Wertz and Miss Wertz also of Rochester, N.Y. Frank Turnweigal Blissfield ,Pa--Jennie Stewart and J.S.Stewart, Dalton Station,Ill--W. Thompson,Woodstock,Ont.---Frank Rogers --Woodstock,Ont.---Mrs. Vance and George Vance,Simical,Ont--Alfred Bradley of Toronto,Ont---George Shackleaon,Evanston,Il---Thoams J. Monroe, Auburn.N.Y.---E.E.Davidson,Fairport N.Y.---C.S.Adams of Buffalo N.Y. ---Clinton Howard, Morton.Vermont, Mrs.Henry Bushnell Brockport Ny---S H. Smith is expected to die. Note there is more information the internet. Ann
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