Evening journal., 1890-12-19
DASHED INTO ETERNITY.
A Fatal Wreck on the Inter
!. colonial Railway.
EIGHT PERSONS REPORTED DEAD.
An Express Train Jumps tho Track Near
ST. Joseph, Que. Runs zoo Yards Along
an Embanisment and Crashes Into an
Abutment with Terrific Force.

St. Joseph. Que, Runs zoo Yards AIon,
an Embanlsment and Crashes Into AN
Abutment with Terrific Force.
QUEBEC, Que, Dec. 19-The express
train from Halifax on the Intercoloniai
railway, which was due at Lewis at 1l:4C
a. m, met with frsghtful accident about
three miles from its destination, by which
at least eight people were killed and many
others fatally or seriously injured.
Crashed Into an Abutment.
The scene Of tho wreck is an embank-
mont at st. Joseph. The train was made
up of a baggage car, mail car, one second
class, one first class aud one sleeping car.
1t was running at a high speed, and after
passing the St Joseph station the second
class car appears to have jumped the track
at the end Of the station siding on a curve
and to have dragged the first GLASS car and
the sleeper with it, and also TO have de-
rallied the mail car and baggage car ahead
OF it. The three passenger cars ran dag
onally along the embankment for 200
yards, the second class car striking the
western abutment OF the bridge which car
ried the track over the public highway at
this point.
Smashed to Atoms.
It was in this car that the sacrifice of
life occurred the front Of the car being
smashed TO atoms against the solid stone
abutments. The three cars turned over.
the first class car being badly shattered.
Fortunately the curve on which they were
running threw the cars away from each
other, and though the heavy sleeper was
carried half the length of the first class
car it ran alongside Of 1t instead Of crush
ing through, as IL would have done on a
straight line. The sleeper was not so badly
smashed as the other cars. The engine.
still drawing the baggage aud mail cars,
passed over the bridge, tho timbers of
which were badly broken up by the two
cars derailed by the plunge Of those in the
reS-. After passing the bridge the mail
car went down the embankment, having
apparently turned completely over in its
descent. The engine and the derailed
baggage car continued on, passing over
second road bridge safely. and were
brought to a standstill a few hundred yards
further on.
Eight Bodies IN the Wreck.
Eight persons are believed TO have been
killed. Five bodies have already been re-
covered. The names OF the five are: Di-
onne, Gauvin, Blals, lie Claire and Winner.
The latter was news agent on the road.
The conductor, Walker, was badly hurt.
and very few of the passengers escaped
without more or less injury. Mr.. Gauvin
was resident Of st. Charles. lie Claire
was young resident Of Lewis. Following
Is list of the injured: Mrs. and Miss Full
Ter, Halifax, severe internal injuries; Mr..
Fuller, fatally hurt; Michael Lewis, news
boy, badly bruised; Thomas Foley, Hall
fax, large hole in his head aud badly
bruised about the body; Miss Foley, his
daughter, slightly bruised; Michael Lebet,
aged 1s years, of Kansuraska fatally in
jnred; Brakeman Beaulieu, fatally hurt;
Evariste Coyette, Of St. Claire, seriously
injured about the body and internally;
Mrs. G. Gagnon, of Lewis, right leg badly
crushed and internal injuries; Dionne,
merchant from St. Denis, contusions about
head and body and internal injuries:
Simpson, Montreal lying unconscious
at hospital; Mr. and Mrs. Benulieu, Of st.
Anne de La Pocatiere, severely i-.tnred
about head; 7. Wilson, NoEs Scotia. right
leg fractured and face b.>'uised; Mrs. Beau
, SIlua, " oe' EeUr.tue, injured internally,
lgg broken and face horribly mangled,
tlernlpe- e-.de Gagnon. St. Feleclte, leg
3roF-en and head cut in several places. y.
=. Farrell, Dundas, Ont, internally in
1ured, removed to Jeffery Hale hospital;
Holstein. of Nova Scotia, and DR.. Merits
settle, Of St. Hendine, bruised; Alfred Dob
son, Of Cambellton, ~ b., legs broken:
Thomas Pelleter, scalp wound; Dr. Tan
ceny, OF St. Gervais, bruised on face and
legs; Abel Migneault, OF Sandy Bay. ribs
broken and internal injuries, will die; -
AreseneRult, Of St. Louis, badly bruised;
a priest Of the Redemptorist order. badly
cut about head; Alfred Ansen, leg fract-
ured in several places; Mrs Carson, OF st.
Claire, scalp wound; George Walker, con
ductor of the train, bruised; Ferdinand
Merceau, scalp wound aud broken hands;
NJ. Latoire, baggageman, disiocated shoul-
der; Eugene Robitalle, OF Lorette, hand
smashed and broken leg.