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ENACTED AWFUL SCENES Men, Women and Children Crushed in the Splintered Coaches, Few Escaping Injury. Terrible Ending to a Happy Day's Outing by the Employes of Pere Marquette Road. Salem, Mich., July 22.-Twenty nine excursionists were killed and 100 more injured, many of them. fatally, Saturday morning when a Pere Marquette excursion train of 11 coaches from Ionia, carrying nearly 1,000 employes of the Pere Marquette shops there, and their families, was run into by a local freight train at Washburn Crossing, about two miles east of here. Long List of Dead. The dead, all of whom are from Ionia: Will Dot, Ionia; John Patterson, Charles Macaloni, Al Hebert, Martin Kilduff, Mrs. Abraham Eddy, Herman Naff, N. J. Cornell, John Rog ers, Willie Grams, a boy; John Tafel, Mrs. August Richter, Ned Gallagher, Lee Alvord, Conductor E. E. Bixley, Fireman Knowles, Den Rogers, Frederick Latham, Frank Smith, Conducotr E. E. Pixley, Charles Hess and his two sons, Charles McCauley, Sr.; L. K. Merrill, Albert Trautwine, James Vizard, Harry Reynolds, Homer Smith, Fred Fitzgerald, William Steiger, Kansas City, who was working in Ionia, Dred Vaughan, South Bend, Ind. Coaches Telescoped. Three of the ceaches were telescoped by the terrific impact of the heavy freight train, and the fourth and fifth coaches were smashed into matchwood. Although there were probably 150 children among the excursionists it is a strange fact that few of them were severely hurt. Nearly all of the dead and the injured are men. Passengers on the wrecked train say that the passenger was running about 40 miles an hour when the trains met. Wreck Occurs in Cut. The banks alongside the track at the crossing where the collision OCcurred are ten feet high, and the space between them for several hundred feet is literally filled with wreck age. The railroad wreckers are makIng all the speed that is possible in clearing it, but even with the assistance of steam cranes at each end, it will be 12 hours before it can definitely be stated whether all the bodies are out. The passenger engine was completely wrecked and its crew killed, but in some miraculous manner the engineer and fireman of the freight engine escaped with their lives. A majority of the killed were men, who were seated in the smoking car. Farmer Saw Wreck. The trains met in a cut which is In the arch of a four-mile long curve in the track, and the banks run up for ten feet above the rails at the point of collision. E. E. Smith, a farmor living near the crossing, was at work in his field, and saw the two trains bearing down upon each other. Both of them dashed into the cut and out of his range of vision. Just the tops of the smoke stacks were visibly as they rushed along under the ten feet banks to destruction. He saw the stacks come together and then the two engines reared up above the banks and fell back as the roar of the collision came to his ears. Shrieks Filled the Air. Almost before he realized what had happened the air was pierced with screams of the wounded and dying people, staggering out from the wrecked cars. Mr. Smith with dozens of other farmers in the neighborhood, rushed to their assistance. Many of the farmers brought bedding and bandages for the injured and as the hours wore on, sent to their homes for food for the suffering people The scene about the wreck as the wreckers delved among the shattered cars was pitiful. Men, women and children weeping and moaning wandered about searching for missing friends and relatives. Scores Injured. In addition to the 75 to 100 people who were severely injured, there are scores more who were cut and bruised by being thrown about in the uninjured cars when the trains collided. Nearly every person in the first half dozen coaches needed some medical attention. The most severely hurt were first looked after by the surgeons. Their wounds were hastily dressed, and hemorrhages stopped, after which they were carried to the wrecking train from Detroit and laid on cots to be brought to Detroit hospitals for further treatment. Probing Bank's Condition. Gallatin, Tenn., July 19.-The doors of the Peoples' National bank are closed pending an investigation of
