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Detroit Free Press
Monday, 28 December, 1903

         [Victim of Dec. 26, 1903 Pere Marquette head-on train wreck]
         
         Killed While Making His Third Trip
         
         WILLIAM J. BURNS Was In Line For Promotion
         
         It was while returning from his third trip over the road
       that WILLIAM J. BURNS, of Detroit, acting fireman on the
       east-bound Pere Marquette train, met his death. MR. BURNS,
       though only 23 years of age, was a locomotive engineer in
       the Detroit yards, the youngest of the corps, and showed
       great ability in his chosen work. He had been in the employ
       of the company since his fifteenth year, and it was with a
       view to giving him a run as engineer on the line between
       Detroit and Grand Rapids that he was sent out temporarily
       as a fireman. He had made one trip to Grand Ledge and one
       to Grand Rapids and was returning from a second run to the
       latter city when he was killed.
       
         The deceased lived with his mother, MRS. CATHERINE BURNS,
       at 647 Howard street, and the first news of the wreck re-
       ceived by her Saturday night simply announced that her son
       was missing. It was not till yesterday morning that the
       suspense of waiting ended in a sad certaintly. Deceased 
       was a member of Wayne lodge No. 104, K.P.
       
         He is survived by his mother, one brother and five sisters,
       JOHN E. BURNS, Miss JULIA BURNS, Mrs. H. A. HOEFLEIR, Mrs.
       H. C. CALDWELL, Mrs. W. E. KRAUSE, all of Detroit, and Mrs.
       HENRY MOORE, of Brighton, Mich. Arrangements for the funeral
       are not complete.
       
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