Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1907 — BLUNDER IS GHUSTLY [ARTICLE]

BLUNDER IS GHUSTLY

• Its Product Thirty-Throe Corpses and Moro Than 100 Persons Wounded. OUTING TUNNED INTO A HOEBOB Bailway Employes ths Victims of a Crew of Their Fellows. NEGLECT OF ORDERS THE CAUSE Freight Crew Responsible for the Terrible Disaster—Near All the » Victims from One Town in Michigan. Salem. Mich., July 22. —Thirty-three persons are dead and more than 100 Injured, many of them seriously, as the result of a head-on collision between this village and Plymouth when a Pere Marquette excursion train, bound from lonia to Detroit, crashed into a westbound freight in a cut located at a sharp curve of the Pere Marquette railroad about a mile east of Salem. The passenger train of eleven cars, carrying the Pere Marquette shop employes of lonia and their families to the Michigan metropolis for their annual excursion was running at high speed, probably fifty miles an hour down a steep grade. It struck the lighter locomotive of the freight train with such terrific force as to turn the freight engine completely around.

Those Who Suffered Death. Following is the list of the dead: Homer Smith (boy), Albert Trautwlne (body cut in two), John Tofel, Charles Hass, Herman Hass, Daniel Hass and William Cornell all of lonia; Don Rogers, Lowell, Mich.; Dick Jones, Mrs. Abraham Eddy, Edward Gallagher (aged 18), Frank Douse, L. K. Merell, Henry Reynolds (Pere Marquette engineer), Charles McCauley, Sr., Al. F. Herbert, Edward Durllng, Charles Broad (aged 18), James Vizard. Willard Stager, William Evans (aged 20), Frank Latham (aged 18 years), Benjamin Durllng—all of lonia; Chas. Fenton, fireman of freight engine, Grand Ledge; Harry Williams (aged 17), lonia; E. J. Pixley, conductor of passenger train; William Gott, Mrs. August Richter, Fred Fitzgerald—all of lonia; Brakeman Ed. Corwan and Fireman Knowles. Ijeft a Widow and Six Children. Herman and Daniel Hass, aged 15 and 18 years, respectively, were the sons of Charles Hass. A widow and six other children are left by Hass. James Vizard was a well-known minor league ball player who had played in the Central League and also at Omaha. Edward Gallagher is the son of an ex-mayor of lonia. Henry Reynolds was a Pere Marquette engineer bound for Detroit on the excursion train to take out his regular run. Al. F. Herbert, a machinist in Pere Marquette shops, had moved to lonia from Traverse City only last Wednesday to be near his wife’j mother.