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Fort Wayne (Ind.) Daily News
16 July 1909


         A Fatal Wreck
         
         Kalamazoo, Mich., July 16 - Two persons killed,
       three probably fatally injured, and several sus-
       taining serious bruises, is the result of a head-
       on collision on the Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw
       railroad, a branch of the Michigan Central, which
       occurred between a passenger and a freight train
       at Turpening Crossing, on half mile south of Shultz,
       a few miles north of Kalamazoo, late yesterday after-
       noon.
         The fatally injured were brought to this city
       last night on the relief train that was sent out
       from the yards in this city, as soon as the acci-
       dent became known. 
         DEAD:
         MELVINE MEAD, engineer, Kalamazoo
         SETH CHANDLER, fireman, Kalamazoo
         
         Probably fatally injured:
         FRED KRUSE, engineer, Kalamazoo, hip broken
         JOHN MILBECK, fireman, Kalamazoo, shoulder broken
         MRS. M. S. GOULD, passenger, Adrian, Mich., leg
           broken, injured internally.
         
         Injured:
         MRS. CHARLES BATCHELLOR, passenger, Hastings, Mich.
         MRS. HANNAH BATCHELLER, passenger, Hastings, Mich.
         E. A. BURTON, passenger, Hastings, Mich.
         MARTIN GOULD, passenger, Adrian, Mich.
         BENJAMIN VOORHEES, baggageman, Kalamazoon, Mich
         
         The blame for the accident is attached to BENJAMIN
       McMURRAY, agent and operator at Delton, who is
       alleged to have failed to deliver a meeting train
       order. The passenger train collided head-on with 
       the freight train it was to have met at Schultze.
       
         The coroner's jury meets today at Hastings, Mich.,
       to investigate the wreck, and the state railroad
       commissioner is on his way there to be present.
    
       
       
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