DISASTER IN MICHIGAN.
Two Passenger Trains Collide While Running at Full Speed.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 15. -
The northbound Northland express, which left this city at 4:05 a.m., and southbound passenger train No. 2, due here at 6 a.m., collided in the dense fog of the early morning at Pierson, twenty-nine miles north of Grand Rapids. Nine lives are supposed to have been lost and many passengers were injured, eight probably fatally. Both engines and the baggage care were completely demolished. The killed so far as known are:
THE DEAD:
LETTS, CHARLES M., Grand Rapids, conductor northbound train No.5.
GROETVELD, GILBERT, Grand Rapids, engineer No.5.
FISH, WILLIAM H., Grand Rapids, engineer No.2.
WOODHOUSE, LOUIS G., Grand Rapids, fireman No.5.
BOYLE, LOUIS G., Grand Rapids, fireman No.2.
PIERSON, C., passenger, of Franklin, Ind.
LEVAN, RALPH, son of Baggageman Levan, of Grand Rapids, who was in the car with his father.
BLOSSOM, MARK, Grand Rapids, news agent, base of skull fractured.
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Daily Illinois State Register; Springfield, Illinois.
August 17, 1900; Page Three.
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DISASTER IN MICHIGAN.
Two Passenger Trains Collide While Running at Full Speed.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 15. -
The northbound Northland express, which left this city at 4:05 a.m., and southbound passenger train No. 2, due here at 6 a.m., collided in the dense fog of the early morning at Pierson, twenty-nine miles north of Grand Rapids. Nine lives are supposed to have been lost and many passengers were injured, eight probably fatally. Both engines and the baggage care were completely demolished. The killed so far as known are:
THE DEAD:
LETTS, CHARLES M., Grand Rapids, conductor northbound train No.5.
GROETVELD, GILBERT, Grand Rapids, engineer No.5.
FISH, WILLIAM H., Grand Rapids, engineer No.2.
WOODHOUSE, LOUIS G., Grand Rapids, fireman No.5.
BOYLE, LOUIS G., Grand Rapids, fireman No.2.
PIERSON, C., passenger, of Franklin, Ind.
LEVAN, RALPH, son of Baggageman Levan, of Grand Rapids, who was in the car with his father.
BLOSSOM, MARK, Grand Rapids, news agent, base of skull fractured.
...
Daily Illinois State Register; Springfield, Illinois.
August 17, 1900; Page Three.
dm wms (#47395868)
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