Instantly Killed

Battle Creek, Sept. 28.- A terrib rear end collision occurred at Belleva 12 miles east of here Wednesday morí ing, in which two people lost the lives and two inore will probably di Passenger train No. 5, with niño car heavily loaded with world's fair vis tors, and the special car of H. G. Mer dith, paymaster of the road, was th rear car on the train. Meredith, h wife and his wife's father and mother Mr. and Mrs. H„ A. Newland, an( colored porter and eook, all of Detroi were occupants of the car. No. 9 le: Charlotte 10 minutes behind No. 5, anc only had four cars. They were ais heavily loaded with world's fair vis tors. No. 5 stopped at Olivec froin a signa order to take on a passenger. The trai liad just finished its work at Bellevu and was puiling out slowly, when No 9, which was running about 40 miles a hour, crashed into it. Mr. Meredith' private coach teleseoped, the roof wa hurled into the ticketoffice, completel} demolishing it, leaving only the tele graph instruments. The operator wa outside and thus escaped. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Newland were in stantly killed, and Meredith and wif badly bruiséd. The colored butler was injured in ternally, and a large piece of wood, foot long, was driven into his groin The doctors say he cannot recover. Fireman Jemison of No. 9 was badly but not fatally, scalded. The car, with ths exception of th roof, was broken into splinters. Th rear end of the sleeper, next to the Meredith car, was crushed in, but no one in it was hurt. The engine of No. 9 was slightly wrecked, but was able to pull the train into this city. Both of the trains were behind time. No. 5 was due here at 1 o'clqck and No. 9 at 1:35. They were running f ast to make up time. The first train was in charge of Conductor J. W. Reed and Engineer Skene. No. 9 was in charge of Conductor J. W. MiCarthy and Engineer Desmond, all of Port Huron. As there was no operator at Olivet there was no way to signal the ap proaching train of the stop made a that station. A dense fog hutig over the river at the time, and the engineer of the approaching train could not see the lights ahead of him. Detroit, Sept. 28. - The special train bearing the remains reached here a 10 o'clock Wednesday evening. When the train drew into the depot a great crowd was assembled there. The space between the ticket offices and the railing were fairly packed and many o: the nurnber were Mr. Newland's ern ployes. On the street at the depot en trance there were also many people At first it had been the intention to take the remains to the Grosse Pointe residence and a steam vacht was wait ing at the foot of Bru6h street, bui afterwards it was decided to take them to the Fort street residence. Two Grace hospital ambulances were waiting at the depot. Mr. and Mrs. Meredith were taken to the residence oi James F. Joy, where the latest reports show that they are resting comfortably.