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£\/L PAGES \JP*^i 8 PARTS / fOC XXXVI. ■p'RlfT^* BY CARRIER tf\ ft f^AJI^C! NUMBER 108. 1 JVi^JCj . PER MONTH *U CJlliM IC> 'ANTI' BILLS TO SET LEGISLATIVE KETTLE BOILING LIVELY LINEUP OF FORCES DUE THIS WEEK REPORTS ON VITAL MEASURES ARE SCHEDULED Japanese Exclusion and Race Track Laws Are Those Expected to Precipitate Bitter Con. tests [Special to The Herald. 1 SACRAMENTO, Jan. 16.—1n the Cali fornia legislature the coming- week anti-Japanese, railroad rate, elec tion, anti-race track, anti-gambling and labor legislation will be the paramount issues. In the case of nearly all of these sub jects committee hearings have been scheduled. So far no vote clearly defining the "lineup" of any two factions for or against measures of general public in terest has been taken, although the as sembly roll call on the adoption of the rules early In the week was claimed as a victory against the "old organization" by friends of the anti-nice bill, while the latter claim also twenty-three out of forty votes in the senate. Among the measures indorsel by both branches were the Hetch-Hetchy water resolution, the memorial to congress for better roads in Yosemite park, the bill making February 12, the centennial of Lincoln's birthday, a legal holiday, and several emergency appropriation measures to pay the expenses of legis lation during the thirty-eighth session. More than 1000 bills have been intro duced, and the state printer has been unable to keep pace with the legisla tors, with the result that consideration of numerous bills has been delayed; but it is expected that when the members take their seats again Monday the files will be complete. In the committee on common carriers the question of reciprocal demurrage will be thrashed out and large delega tions will appear for or against various railroad measures pending. Whether or not the demurage laws In Texas and Oregon, of which duplicates are before the legislature, are constitu tional will be one of the points raised by their opponents. Friends of the measure assert that while the supreme court of the United States has held it to be unconstitu tional, as applied to interstate com merce, the Texas law is being enforced between points within that state. Laws of other states upon other sub jects are before the law makers. The Walker-Otis anti-race track bill Is vir tually a reproduction of the measure enacted through the efforts of Governor Hughes of New York, and the bill In troduced in the assembly by Grove L. Johnson at the request of the woman suffragists is the same as the law of Colorado. The Oklahoma graduated income tax law will be presented in the senate on Monday by J. B. Sanford. More characteristic of California, however, is the legislation proposed by Assemblymen Johnson of Sacramento and Drew of Fresno, who have revived the movement against the Japanese that gained an impetus during the school segregation in San Francisco two years ago. Governor Gillett used his influence with the legislature to smother these measures at the last session, at the urgent request of President Roosevelt; but while he is investigating the four measures proposed (segregating school children, segregating all aliens, deny ing aliens the right to be directors of corporations and denying them the right to own land) he has received so far no overtures from Washington to stop them and is non-committal as to their merits. The 1000 bills introduced during the last week affect everything from freight rates to art, and call for appropriations aggregating nearly $4,000,000. Japanese Outlines Land Laws Governor Gillett has received a let ter from the Japanese consul general at San Francisco outlining the laws of his country affecting the ownership of land by aliens. This was at the re quest of the governor, made when the consul visited him to protest against proposed legislation against Japanese holding property in this state. A. M. Drew of Fresno. introduced early in the session a measure provid ing that aliens may hold lands for five years after they shall have reached the age of 21, but if at the end of that time the lands shall not have been conveyed to bona fide purchasers they shall be sold by the state. It also provides that no contract, agreement or lease of real estate shall be made to an alien for longer period than one year. In order £p determine what action to take when the bill should come to him for signature, the governor asked the representative of Japan to furnish him with information of the treatment accorded aliens in the islands, and the reply shows that Drew's bill is more drastic than the Japanese law. In that country aliens are not allowed to own land on account of the crowded con dition of tho islands, but corporations may lease property for 100 years, giv ing them all the rights, except actual ownership, allowed to natives. The governor said today he had not completed his investigations and was not ready to pronounce an opinion of the merits of the proposed measure. Bakers to Send Delegation The California Bakers' association has notified Chairman Charles A. Nel son of the assembly committee on la bo- and capital that it will send a I delegation to this city to appear' against Transue's bill providing for in spection of bakeries and denying cer tificates of sanitation to those located in basements. Chairman Nelson himself has a bill which does not disturb cellar bakeries already established, but prohibiting them in future. Another bill of great importance to labor which will be considered by this committee Monday at 10 o'clock is Coghlan's measure introduced at the request of Labor Commissioner J. D. Mackenzie, creating the office of sta tistician in the state labor bureau and giving the commissioner and his as sistants all powers and authority of sheriffs to make arrests for violations of the act establishing the bureau. Deputy Commissioner F. C. Jones, representative of the State Federation of Labor. Stein Francisco Labor coun cil, SacrameVito Federated Trades and (Continued on Face Two) LOS ANGELES HERALD NOTED AVIATOR IN WRECK IN EUROPE AEROPLANIST AND SISTER IN WRECK, BUT BOTH ESCAPE Fast Trains Crash Near Entrance to Tunnel in France—Ten Per sons Injured, Four Seriously PAU, France, Jan. 16.—Orvtlle Wright, the American aeroplanist, and his sister, Miss Katherine Wright, and Mrs. Hart Q. Berg, wife of the Euro pean manager of the Wright brothers, were in a wreck near Habas, in the Landas district, today. None of them sustained injury, but ten of the passengers on the train were hurt, four of them seriously. The Wright party was on the express train from Paris. The express ran into an accommodation train bound from Dax just before entering: the Habas tunnel. Both engines were destroyed and all the passengers were shaken up. The journey was resumed on another train, which brought the Americans in this afternoon. THE NEWS SUMMARY FORECAST For Los Angeles and vicinity: Fair Sunday; light west wind. Maximum temperature yesterday, 71 degrees; minimum, 46 degrees. LOCAL Interstate Commerce Commissioner F. K. I.ane, in address before City club, makes plea for purity in civic affairs. Important bank d^al is closed by which Los Angeles and Mexico interests are allied. Home for neglected children on West Angre leno street is named after incident which hap pned at time of Edinburgh earthquake. Threatened contest over will of Susan G. Mitchell precluded by contents of her last tes tament. Physician wants state medical board forced to give him license to practice. Citizens to review municipal affairs at meet ing to be held next Wednesday at Symphony hall. Veteran western actor tells of his surprise of growth of Los Angeles in twenty years. Y. W. C. A. teacher talks of her efforts to give woman healthy life by educating her to look after her physical condition. Program for convention of live stock men issued and grazing laws will be discussed at length. Men rowing in boat at Westlake park find body of man floating in water. Mcther and son engage in legal contest over pioperty Interests. Authorities claim prisoner at county jail has confessed to aiding in robbery of State bank at Eurbank. Hearing before nterstate commerce commis sion on charges of $2.00 for switching cars at Los Angeles develops fact that if railroads win, companies will have right to impose like charges anywhere in United States. COAST River at Sacramento reaches highest stage in history, and flood crest is expected to be passed this morning; great damage and tre mendous floods reported from many sections. Two masked g^n enter bank at Kiamath Falls, Ore., ana hold up officials and cus tomers, making escape with $3000; one of high waymen captured. Robber in Oakland robs cash register and is captured only after patrolman fires three shots at him. Safe robbers in Stockton defy police; blow open several vaults and wage battle with of ficers when latter go out in patrol wagon to arrest them. Many "anti" bills to be reported by com mittees at - Sacramento this week, including race track, gambling and labor legislation; expected to precipitate lively battles. EASTERN Thirty thousand dollars urged as appropria tion" for purchase of automobiles to be used by President-elect Taft. E. H. Harriman gives advice to students, and says high school graduates make more successful railway men than college graduates. Harry K. Thaw to be given another trial in New York to determine his sanity, and judge concludes to try case without Jury. Publishers of New York World subpoenaed and entire staff sunynoned to appear before federal grand jury which will probe charges preferred at instigation of president, who says newspapers have been guilty of criminal libek in connection with Panama canal scandals. Twenty-one persons meet dsath, many being completely decapitated, in wreck of passenger train on Denver & Rio Grande railroad in Colorado; several Angelenos among those In jured. Captain Peter Hams, brother of author just acquitted on charge of slaying William Annis at Long Island ' acht club house, to answer to similar charge next March. l^hicago city treasury loses over $75,000 as result of old trick worked by bidders on pav ing contracts. Society people nf Chicago have costly dance at which serpents and many monsters, with weird light effects, are principal features. Senate leaders at Washington to oppose statehood for Arizona and New Mexico be cause of so-called "question" as to character of population. FOREIGN Bodies of Consul Cheney and his wife found in ruins of consulate at Messina, and will be brought to United States. Populace of Catania alarmed by report that specter of St. Agatha was s«en on Mt. Ktna. Orville Wright, American aeroplanist, in train wreck with eistcr near Paris, b.(*t both escape uninjured. SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1909. RIVER HIGHEST IN HISTORY AT SACRAMENTO CAPITAL CITY IN DANGER OF PASSING FLOOD WATER RISES INCH AN HOUR; SETS NEW HIGH MARK Great Damage Reported from Other Districts, but Elsewhere Storm Seems Over—Many Trains Delayed [By Associated Press.] SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16.—After an almost continuous downpour for six days, indications tonight are that the storm which has been hover ing over the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys and extending to the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada for the last week, carrying away bridges, bursting levees and demoralizing traffic on the northern and eastern railroad routes, is broken and the flood situa tion shows considerable improvement. With the exception of Sacramento, where the Sacramento river is rising at the rate of an inch an hour, reports from the central portions of the stace are that the Sacramento, San Joaquin and Feather rivers and their tributaries are falling rapidly. The principal danger point tonight'ls at Sacramento, the crest of the flood waters from the north being expected by morning. The river already is pouring over the levees at three places, but up to a late hour no breaks had occurred. Repairing Progreses Rapidly The work of repairing the numerous washouts on the Shasta and Ogden routes of the Southern Pacific lines progressed rapidly all day and is pro ceeding tonight wherever possible. Three northbound passenger trains on the Shasta route, which for three days had been stalled at Red Bluff, passed over temporary tracks laid near Kennett at 8 o'clock tonight, bound for Portland. At the offices of the Southern Pacific, on the Oakland Mole, it wais stated that the first of the Ogden detoured trains would reach San Francisco tomorrow morning, having come from Salt Lake over the San Pedro via Dagget and Mojave. Officials said they hoped to open the direct eastern line to Ogden some time tomorrow. As for the replacing of several spans of the Southern Pacific bridge across the American river, just east of Sacra mento, this work will occupy two weeks. Hundreds of men "were put to work laying temporary track to connect with the Northern Electric line. Commencing tomorrow evening it is the intention of the Southern Pacific to run its eastern trains across the American river over the Northern Elec tric company's bridge. Aside from the damage suffered by the railroad company, reports tonight indicate that the loss from the high water will not exceed $200,000. RIVER NEARLY INCH HIGHER THAN EVER REPORTED BEFORE SACRAMENTO, Jan. 16.—At 9:30 to night the water in the Sacramento river at this city reached the 29.3 mark, eight-tenths of a foot higher than ever before. The city is safe, though in one place the levee was only six inches above the water line. The levee at the Chickeringr & Snyder ranch, on the Yolo side, three and a half miles below Sacramento, went out tonight, leaving a gap of 200 yards wide, through which the current rushes ' with tremendous force, slightly reduc ing the stage of water at this point. The break will gradually widen and the relief to points above and below this city will be permanent. The territory that will be flooded from the Snyder break will reach from the town of Washington, across the river from this city, barring a couple of levees, to Merritt island, nearly twenty miles to the south. The flood of the American river has gone down, and this city is not threat ened from that direction. The crest of the Sacramento river flood is now be tween Red Bluff and Colusa, andVill not reach this city until tomorrow. It is in the form of a great swell and is fifty miles long. MARYSVILLE ENTIRELY CUT OFF FROM OUTSIDE WORLD MARYSVILLE, Cal., Jan. 16.—Marys ville is cut off from communication with the outside world by telegraph and transportation lines. No train has been operated over the Southern Pacific, nor have any of the suburban cars on the Northern Electric company's lines been operated. During the night the Yuba river sub sided six inches, and during the great er part of the day the floor remained I stationary. Less than a quarter of an inch of rain fell during the night at this city, but in the canyons of the Yuba and Feather rivers and in the foothill regions, the storm was heavy. The danger stage on the Yuba river levee is twenty-six feet, but it is not thought likely that this depth will be approached. There was a rise of five inches in the Feather and some excitement was created today by the discovery that water was seeping through the levee L on the north side of the city, but there was no cause for general alarm, ialthough all precautions against crumb ling embankments are being taken. Three Trains Leave Redding REDDING, Jan. 16.—The washout between Coram and Kennet was re paired today and three northbound passengers, which have been stalled at Red Bluff, passed through Redding at a late hour tonight. The first mail for three days reached Shasta county points. The storm is over and the Sac ramento river has receded below the danger point. Grass Valley Damaged GRASS VALLEY, Jan. 16.—The worst storm in the history of this sec tion of the state broke this afternoon. It has been raining almost since New- Year's day and the rainfall for Janu ary has reached the unprecedented mark of 30 inches, making a total oi" (Continued on Page Two) IS VICE PROTECTED IN LOS ANGELES?—X Showing How Promotion of Ed. Kern from Chief of Police to Board of Public Works Was "Requested" by Walter Parker and How His Confirmation by the Council Was Arranged PEOPLE of the city of Los Angeles have always been exceedingly jealous of the control of those two great departments of the city—the Water Department and the Board of Public Works, ever since they were created, for it has been gen erally recognized that they were the two most important business departments of the City Government. • This feeling on the part of citizens has, previous to the administration of Mayor Har per, resulted in securing excellent men to control both of these important Departments Mayor Harper is the first executive of the city who, in making an appointment to control either one of these departments, has dared run counter to the best sentiment of the com munity which has demanded that only standards of ability and integrity shall eovern in these appointments. & The advantage which has accrued to the city from the care that has been taken in the past in selecting the proper men for positions upon both of these important Boards is shown in the record which has heretofore been made in the operation of both of them' Since the city took over its water supply and the Water Department came under the control of the excellent business men who have managed it, it has made a most re markable record. , While lowering the price of water to consumers until our people now pay meter rates little more than one-third those rates charged the citizens of Oakland and San Francisco, the department out of its earnings has entirely reconstructed the water sys tem ; secured new sources of water supply; extended the system to fully accommodate the necessities of the most rapidly growing city in America; paid all of the interest on the purchase bonds, and in addition it has been able to contribute over $800000 in cash to carrying on the Owens River Aqueduct. In 1907 the Department made the remark able record of taking in $1,033,660 with an expenditure for operating expenses of $193 -031 leaving $840,629 net income. The showing for 1908 The Herald does not have in de tail, but is informed that it is equally as good. This remarkable result, it must be borne in mind by our readers, was accomplished by a Board which was entirely free from politics and controlled by business men of the highest character. Citizens will recall that when Mayor McAleer was called upon to appoint the first Board of Public Works, the citizens so firmly asserted their determination to have proper men selected that the selection was finally put into the hands of the Chamber of Commerce, the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association and the Municipal League with the result that three business men of excellent reputation, honesty and efficiency were selected. One of those men has been succeeded by Gen. Chaffee. an appointee o"f Mayor Harper's, which The Herald takes pleasure in saying i s an excellent appointment. Ihe result of the care taken to keep this great municipal department out of politics is shown, among other things, by the result of the work of the Owens River Aqueduct project. A good deal of this work has been done at a cost of a little more than 50 per cent of the estimate, and there is every reason to believe that if it can be kept out of the control of politicians and political gangsters, the same record may be made until it is completed. It has been properly believed, however, for a long time that the local Southern Pa cific Republican political machine has been looking with longing eyes to this project ne cessitating the expenditure of $25,000,000 of funds, and has determined to secure con trol of it, if possible. The opportunity to accomplish this seems to have been provided by Mayor Harper's election to the office of Mayor, which, as shown by The Herald on yesterday, was the result of a plan formed and carried out by certain Democratic Southern Pacific politicians in connection with the local Republican Southern Pacific machine. It is believed that Mr. Kern was originally slated by the Southern Pacific Machine to succeed Mr. Anderson on the Board of Public Works and would have been appointed but for the intervention in favor of the appointment of Gen. Chaffee of a Republican morning newspaper of this city. If "this is true, then the good people of the city are un der obligations for this intervention, and it can 'only be regretted that some influence equally effective did not intervene when the Mayor'had an opportunity of filling the sec ond vacancy upon the Board of Public Works. When the question arose of selecting a successor to Mr. Edwards on the Board of Public Works, the unqualified expression of all the best elements of the city was direct ly opposed to the appointment of Mr. Ker n . Mayor Harper's attention was called to the fact that Mr. Kern while in the position of city councilman had made himself subserv ient to the interests represented by Mr. Walter Parker and served by the Southern Pa cific political machine which he controlled. It was stated, however, by men close to the Mayor and supposed to be in his confidence that he had promised to appoint Mr. Kern and proposed to make his promise good. Certain it is that no amount of protest and ob jection in any way appeared to affect the Mayor, and the result was Mr. Kern's appoint ment. Since the appointment was made, The Herald has obtained evidence which entirely convinces it that the appointment of Mr. Kern was dictated by Mr Walter Parker. The evidence is that Mr. Parker, a short time before the appointment was made, in a conversation with an individual interested in local politics, concerning the appointment of a successor to Mr. Edwards stated "T have asked the appointment of Mr. Kern and I will furnish the votes of five councilmen to confirm him when he is appointed." I The Herald has no doubt that Mr. Parker did make this statement, because the evi dence in its possession proving it is too direct and positive to admit of any doubt. There also appears no reason to doubt that Mr. Kern in his past official career has served the interests which Mr. Parker represents and that he received and retained his appointment as Chief of Police as a reward for such service on his part. One notable in stance of his service to the interests which Mr. Parker represents was his voting to grant the Riverbed Franchise without adequate consideration, after he knew that the attempt had been made to secure it under false pretenses and by false statements. In the light of The Herald's exposures of Mr. Kern's actions and affilia tions while Chief of Police, it cannot be doubted that he permitted his individ ual interests to interfere with the discharging of his official duties while in the position of Chief of Police. With this sort of a record behind him as a public official in two positions which he has heretofore occupied, and owing his appointment to political influences desirous of controlling the enormous expenditure to be made in carrying out the greatest enterprise that Los Angeles ever had, or ever will have, can there be any doubt as to how he will use his position as a member of the Board of Public Works? It is stated by the friends of Mr. Hubbard, the third member of the Board of Pub lic Works, that his health is far from good. It is quite within the bounds of possibility that this may force his retirement from the Board before the end of his term. Should this calamity occur, can there be any question in the minds of honest citizens, with the record which Mayor Harper has made before them, that the same influences which in duced him to appoint Mr. Kern against the protests of so many good citizens will also induce him to appoint another man of like character? And, with a second man on the Board of the same character as Mr. Kern, can there b«^any doubt that Los Angeles' greatest enterprise will be absolutely at the mercy of the same unscrupulous political machine whom the county has to thank for the late ""Solid Three" of the Board of Super visors and the infamous record which that trio made? The Herald regards the situation as one pregnant with the most vital issues for the city. It believes that it has fully established the fact that in Mr. Kern's appointment a radical departure has been made from the vital rule heretofore- followed in selecting members of the Board of Public Works to select only men of the highest character, who are afsolutelr free from all possibility of control by designing politicians and unscrup ulous political machines. The Herald believes, too, that in what it has shown of the influences responsible for Mayor Harper's election and which appear co have influenced him in the past in the se lection of many of his appointments and in the discharge of other duties of his office, it has demonstrated that he is not to be relied on to guard and protect the interests of the city in any matter relating to the Board of Public Works which may again come before him. In the chapters which The Herald has heretofore published under the caption "Is Vice Protected in Los Angeles?" it has given facts which indicate the existence in Los Angeles of conditions which must be considered very grave by every good citizen. The Herald believes that the influences responsible for these conditions are very deep seated and sometimes not entirely apparent. It will endeavor to show what these influences are in tomorrow's issue. CENTS SIiNGLK COPIES: gj?^&s sV p 21 MEET DEATH IN TRAIN WRECK ON D. & R. G. RY. MANY SERIOUSLY INJURED AND SEVERAL FATALLY ANGELENOS ARE AMONG PASSEN GERS HURT Collision Near Dotsero Declared to Have Been Due to Misunder. standing of Orders by Engineer DEAD IDENTIFIED J. D. MAHON, Princeton, Ind. _ A. A. HAMILTON, Polo, 111. W. C. KETTLE, Ashton, Neb. MRS. MATTIE KETTLE, Ashton, Neb. MRS. MATTIE EZELL, Williston, N. D. J. W. OLESON, St. Louis, Mo. OR. ARVILLA A. OLSON, from either Hildreth, Neb., or Axtell, Neb. REV. L. R. MEILEY, from either Brooklyn, N. V., or Mechanlcsburg, Pa. CLARENCE A. GOODING, Washin^on JOHN WILLIAMS, Clarkg, Neb. J. C. DAVIS of l>avis-Brighain Drug company, Denver. HENRY DUNN, St. Louis. * The unidentified dead are all women and children whose bodies are badly mangled. Among Hie injured are W. D. Maxey, 1433 Walnut street, Los Angeles, and Mrs. A. W. McCauley and child, Los An geles. [By Associated Press.] rjLENVVOOD SPRINGS, Colo., Jan. IT 16.—Twenty-one persons were killed and thirty injured, many of them seriously, in a head-on collision between westbound passenger train No. 5 and an eastbound freight train bu the Denver & Rio Grande railroad be tween Dotsero and Spruce Creek, twenty-two miles from Glenwood Springs, at 9:36 o'clock last night. While nothing official has been given out as to the cause of the wreck it is said to have been due to a misunder standing of orders on the part of .En gineer Gustaf Olson of the passenger train. Olson, however, claims that he un derstood his instructions perfectly, but that he misread his watch, thus en croaching on the time of the freight train, which was being drawn by two locomotives, the first of which was in charge of his brother, Sig Olson. When news of the catastrophe reached Glenwood Springs every avail able physician and nurse in the city was pressed into service and a relief train was soon on the scene, never to be forgotten in its gruesomeness and horror. Task Seems Unending Body after body was taken from the wreckage, and for a time it appeared as though the heartrending task would never be completed. As the bodies were taken from the ruins they were laid side by side on a bier amid the agonizing shrieks of husband and wife, child and parent, as they searched among the dead for their' loved ones, many of whom were man gled beyond recognition. A pathetic feature of the accident was the killing of a father and mother, leaving two small children, the elder 4 and the younger 2 years old. The elder boy told a nurse at the sanitarium that his father called him Bennie, and this is all he will say. From a fellow passenger it was learned that the family was en routu to Grand Junction to visit relatives. It is supposed Mr. and Mrs. Kettle whose names appear among the dead, were the parents of these two little ones, who are badly injured. Entire Family Killed Another sad case was the destruction of an entire family, with the exception of an infant of 3 months. This helpless child was taken care of by a family at Shoshone, which in tends to adopt the sole survivor of a once happy family. One of the remarkable incidents of the wreck was the marvelous escape from the ill-fated chair car of Mr. Stall of Pueblo, Colo., salesman for a commission company of that city. Mr. Stall escaped without a scratch, but soon afterward suffered a severe nervous shock and is thought tonight to be on the verge of nervous collapse. Another heartbreaking 1 scene was en acted in the wreck zone when kindly hands gently lifted a pretty 4-year-old girl from the death clasp of her moth er's arms. Nearby lay the body of her father, decapitated, and on every side were lifeless bodies. The body of a woman was found ly-" ing a dozen yards from the wreckage, close to the banks of the Grand river, both-arms missing and otherwise hor ribly mangled. Injured Arrive at Springs A trainload of thirty injured men and women who had barely escaped with their lives arrived in Glenwood Springs at 7 o'clock this morning. Carriages and wagonettes were wait ing at the Rio Grande depot. The injured were taken to the county hospital and to the sanitarium, and when the cots and wards had been filled rooms were engaged in the hotels of Glenwood Springs for the maimed. It was found at an early hour that there was a shortage of surgeons, and only first aid could be administered until late this afternoon surgeons from all the -urrounding cities began to pour into Glenwood Springs. A woman died of her injuries on the relief train while on her way here. It Is expected that at least a dozen or more who were brought here will suc cumb. Train No. 5 was made up of engine and tender, baggage car, smoking car, chair car, tourist sleeping car and full complement of Pullman sleepers and a dining car. The locomotives are up on end and joined together as one piece of mech anism. Their wheels were rolled down Into the Grand river and pieces of machin ery are scattered throughout the scene of the wreck. The smoking: car was only partly de railed, while the rhair car immediately following was completely telescoped by the tourist sleeper. None of the Pulman sleepers left the track and no one was killed or In jured in these cars. Most of the dead and injured were removed from the ruins of the chair car, which was split 1^ iTi , o f^