In 1901, 135,996 Italians arrived in the United States to start a new life full of hope. Some were never heard from again. It was the Eve of Thanksgiving, November 27,1901, 115 years ago. Two trains, number 4 and number 13, collided head on at 6:46 pm between Seneca and Sand Creek, Michigan, in what became known as the “Wreck of the Wabash,” after a book by Laurie (Dickens) Perkins, a local historian from Adrian, Mi. Number 4 was heading east to Detroit and carrying passengers returning home for the family gatherings the next day. It was the “Continental Express” in Montpelier, Ohio made up of the engine, six coaches and two sleepers, one a restaurant, and another the luggage car. The second, the number 13, was traveling west full of hope.