Collision of Trains.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 313, 14 January 1902, Page 4

Collision of Trains.

Detroit, November 27.

From 100 to 150 persons were killed or injured to-night in a wreck on the Wabash railroad. Two heavily loaded passenger trains collided head on at full speed one mile cast of Seneca, the second station west of Adrain. The westbound train, composed of two ears loaded with immigrants and live other coaches, was smashed and burned, with awful loss of life and fearful injuries to a majority of its passengers. The eastbound passenger train, the Continental Limited, suffered in scarcely less degree. The track in the vicinity of the wreck is strewn with dead and dying. Many physicians from Detroit have gone to the scene.

The Continental Limited, the eastbound train, was driven by Engineer Strong and was in charge of Conductor J. Martin. The westbound immigrant train was a double-header and was driven by Engineer Work and Engineer Parks, the conductor being Charles Troll. The eastbound train, it is believed, disobeyed orders in not waiting at Seneca for the westbound train, thereby causing the wreck. The track at the point where the collision occurred was straight, and at first the officials could not understand how the accident could have happened. Advices from the wreck at midnight state that the country for miles around is lighted up by the burning cars, and that the flames could not be quc-nched because of lack of proper apparatus. Mangled bodies were picked up along the track by the fanners before the special train sent from Adrain arrived on the scene. In some instances the bodies were mangled beyond all recognition. The bodies which the rescuers managed to pull from the burning ruins of the immigrant cars were so badly burned that their identity will probably never be ascertained,