Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1901 — Fatal Head-On Collision. [ARTICLE]

Fatal Head-On Collision.

An east-bound Pere Marquette passenger train on the Saginaw division met a freight engine in a head-on collision at Plymouth, a village about 40 miles northeast of Detroit, with the result that Engineer Alexander Moore of Saginaw, the engineer of the passenger engine, was killed outright by being pinioned against the boiler of his engine. Express Messenger Warner of the train is, perhaps, fatally hurt. William Blische, the fireman of the freight engine, was brought to this city shortly after midnight on a special train. He was so badly injured that he died five minutes after he arrived at St. Mary’s hospital. The fireman of the passenger engine was John C. Kennedy of Saginaw. He was also killed.