The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-01-11
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
Terrible Collision On a Canadian
Railroad.
About Thirty Men NHcd---Tbe VIC
tins All Workme0.

Below VIII be found pa tculars of the ter
rible collision which occurred on the Grant
Trunk railway at Humber, Canada, about
seven miles from 7, ronto, in which thirty
passengers were killed and number of
Others were severely in ,ured.
The suburban train left Union station, To-
ronto, at $40 o'coc in the morning. One
of the cars was filled with workmen en-
ployed in the bolt works, who live
in Toronto, and go out every morn
ing by this train to their labor. AT er
turning curve at Park ale boundary
fiei hit II, In was seen coming tyward on
the same track. Bo engineers reversed
their engines and sigma led down brakes, but
it was too late to overcome the impetus
they had gained, and the two trains crashed
to- ether, and in an instant the air was filed
with the grOans Of the wounded in the wreck
Those vino escaIed in. ury Immediately be-
gan the work of cXtricating their unfor-
tunae comrades They found hat many
were already killed, while numbers OF oilers
were injured so seriously as to Ien .cr their
+ recovery impossible.
The sufferings of the in ured Immediately
after the accident were frghtiu' aud this was
contributed to in no 81 all degree by the col Z,
the very blood which fowel from their
wounds being frozen on their bodies. The
erie; of the in iured were most agonzing AMI
could be heard above the loud Kissing of
es, aping steam and the rear OF the waves
of the stormy lake which dashed thu shore
in close vicinity to the S enc of the ac-
! cdent. The engine of the freight To-
| connective was plunged by n shock right
into tie passenger car, in which the work
| men were seated chatting together, and after
! rearing back from the shock of meeting the
dummy engine, it settled down on the crushed
| car among the Passengers, imprisuning the
/ men in the most horr BILE agony. In a few
moments it exploded. The men were hell
! among the wreck as firmly as if they had
| been placed in stocks, and LETT to Ire scalled
! with the escaping steam and roasted wi h
! the burning wood of the cars, which took fire
| and burne rapidly.
Death in many casas must have been in
staniane With Others the suiierngs
! were terrible to contGnp ate One man
| begged of Micl aol Iavcile, n conductor,
who had come down az a asseHpe' ON the
! freight ira II, to Tull him out of the debris
which lay around him and from which he
could not extricate himself The poor fellow
did not appear badly hurt lut Lavelle got
him on his bacl; ana carrie him to the r. ar
freight car, the man 81 aiing even cheer
fully to him the while. suddenly he looked
down and said with cry OF horror:
''Oh, God, my 'e-s are IT,
| The poor fellows legs were lurnt to
cinder, and he Lad been ign rant of the ex-
tent of his in iurits until the moment.
A special train took the wounded into the
/ city, where the eX 'iteMent was intense. News
of the disaster spread ia idly, AMI long b.
fore the train arrived in the city the station
was crowde with anX GUS people, VINO, with
! bauched faces. struggled t. yet glimpse of
the wounded as they were borne t. the an
bu anccs in waiting. \ blizzard was raging
| bu the fra i g women, without hats OF W a -
en-, braved the chilling b aStS and driving
snow waiting for news OF Il hus band, brother,
or father, while strong men Nept at me
fri.htCu SPEC acle which several of the
| bodies prps ed. As the form OF Il loved