Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-07-13
A RAILWAY HORROR.
Terrible Accident on the Grand
Trunk Road in Canada.
A Pullman Sleeping Car Is Teiescoped
and Thirteen Persons Are Killed and
Twenty-nine Injured - Pilgrims
Journeying to Famous
Shrine Meet an
Awful Fate.

CRAIa's ROAD, Que, July 10.-In the
early hours yesterday morning there
occurred an accident on the Grand
Trunk road at the station here that has
seldom been excelled in horror by any
similar event in Canadian railway an
mails.
A special excursion passenger train,
rushing along in the darkness of the
early morning, crashed into another
train of the same kind preceding it,
killing eleven persons and wounding
about thirty others.
The trains that came in collision were
special excursion trains filled with pill
grims en- route from SherbroolSe, Rich
mond and Windsor Mills to Lewis,
where they were to cross over to Que
bee and proceed to the shrine of ST.
Anne de Beaupre and were following
one another with an interval of some
twenty minutes between them.
The forward train was making good
time, ,.having left Richmond at 10 o'clock
the night before. On the rear of this
train was Pullman in which were the
priests and others in charge of the
party, and it was in this car that most
train reached this station, which is
fourteen miles west of Lewis, about
o'clock, and stopped at the tank to take
water. The usual, precautions were
taken and the semaphore thrown to
danger against the following train.
Only the trainmen were out and about,
attending to their duties. The Pull
man in the rear was wrapped in silence
and the sleepers were unaware of the
| terrible fate that was rushing upon
them.
Suddenly there was a great crash
the second train coming at full speed
and dashing into the rear Pullmap of
the first section. So great was the i'm
petus of the co,liding train that the en-
CINE imbedded itself in the palace car
and the latter plunged forward and
partially telescoped the first-class car
Immediately in front. Every berth in
the Pullman was wrecked and some of
the occupants who were killed never
knew what happened to them. They
died sleeping. Others awolSe to their
horrible surroundings and positions
MANNED, bleeding and bruised, con-
scious of little else but the agony
| UndU rdcheu Jueu. IL WAS du dWluA
| scene.
The cries of the wounded and the
means of the dying and the outpour-
ing of passengers from cars that were
not badly damaged and the hurrying
forms of the uninjured trainmen with
their fiickering lanterns all combined
to make a sight seldom exceeded in its
tragic horrors. The work of rescue
was begun as soon as possible. When
the binding steam had subsidized the
trainmen, priests and others got to-
gether and the dead and wounded were
taken from the ruins of the engine, the
Pullman and the first-class car and re-
moved to temporary quarters.
The following are all the names OF
the killed that can be obtained at this
writing:
Rev. Father Mercier, Richmond.
Charles Bedard, mail clerk, and daughter
Richmond.
Miss Valin, st. Joseph de Lewis.
Miss Phaneuf, ST. Joseph de Lewis
Richard Perkins, fireman, Richmond.
Mrs. c. Cayer, Danville
Hector Mcleod, engineer, Richmond.
Two ladies from Eli county, Shefford, names
unknown.
Two other ladies', unidentified.
Father Dignon, Windsor Mills.
Rev Father Des Rosters has q leg and an arm
broken, and is otherwise badly injured.
moral" received fatal injuries and has since
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