The record-union., 1895-07-10
RAILWAY HORROR IN CANADA.
Frightful Accident on the Grand
Trunk Line at Craigs Road.
A SPECIAL EXCURSION CRASHES
INTO ANOTHER TRAIN.

The Engine of the Second PIunges at
High Rate of Speed Into Pullman
| Sleeper on the Rear End of the
Forward Train. wrecking Every
Berth and Partially Telescoping the
Coach Immediately In Front-Thir-
teen People Killed Outright and
Thirty Others Injured.
CRAIGs ROAD Quebec, July 9.-In the
early hours this morning there was an
accident on the Grand Trunk Road at the
| station here that has seldom been ex-
| celied IN horror by any similar event in
Canada. A special excursion passenger
train rushing along in the darkness
crashed into another train of the same
! kind preceding il, and killed thirteen
people and injured thirty others.
The dead are: Charles BeGard mail
clerk. Miss Bedard, Hector Mcleod (en-
gineerl. Richard l.. Perkins (fireman),
Rev. j. l.. Morcier, Coogan, all of
Richmond; Rev. L. ?. Dignau, Windsor
Mills; Miss Vslin. ST. Joseph DeLevis;
Miss Phaneuf of the same town; Mrs. J.
B. Cayer, Danville; Miss Delcourte, Shelf
geld; aunt of Miss Valin, name un-
known. st. Joseph DeLevis; John O'Far-
rell Capleton.
Iniured-John Cadieux, J. b. Cayer,
Seraphlne Cayer, joseph Cayer, Louis
I 4 t'nx- all
ter, Broughton; Frances Fontaine,
Broughton; Louis Caudel, Artha baska-
Vile; Patrick McHugh, Capleton; Pierre
Alard, Richmond; Antonio Barri, Ar
thabaskaville; HercuIos Descoteau, wife
and two sons, Danville; Rev. +. Desro-
sler Broughton Qegs and arm broken);
j. Qunitan, Montreal; Cyrille Remilard
and Delina Crosseline Sherbrooke; Mr.
aud Mrs. Hamel, Danville; Mrs. Louis
MorIn, Divine Morin, Windsor; Mrs.
frank Cayer and six-year-old daughter,
Danville; Mrs. Seraphine Lantin, Wind
sor Mills; Lazare Codabout Windsor
Mills; Joseph Richard, Brompton Falls;
Cleophas Charest, Coaticooke; Bennett
Bassler pullman car porter, Toronto.
| The trains that collided were special
excursion trains filled with pilgrims en-
route from Sherbrooke, Richmond, to
| Lewis. Where they were to cross over TO
| Quebec and proceed to the shrine of St.
one another with an interval OF twenty
minutes. 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 1t was in this car that most of
| The loss OF life occurred.
| The first train reached this station, four
| teen miles west of Lewis, about o. clock,
! and stopped at the tank 10 take water.
| The usual precautions were taken against
| the following train. Only the trainmen
were out and attending to their duties.
| The Pullman in the rear was in silence,
and the sleepers were unaware OF the
terrible fate that was rushing upon them.
Suddenly there was great crash. The
second train coming at full speed dashed
| into the rear of the Pullman OF the first
section. So great was its impetus that the
engine was embedded in the palace car,
and the latter plunged forward and par
TALLY telescoped the frst-class car imme-
diately in front. Every berth in the
| Pullman was wrecked, and some of the
occupants were killed, never knowing
what happened to them. They died
| sleeping. Others awoke TO their horrible
surroundings and position, manned,
! bleeding and bruised, conscious OF little
| else but the agony that racked them.
1t was an awful scene. The cries of
the wounded and the means OF the dying
and the outpouring of passengers from
cars that were not badly damaged and
the hurrying forms of the uninjured
trainmerswiih their fiickering lam terms, all
com blned 10 make a sight seldom ex-
ceeded in trsglc horror.
The work OF rescue was begun as sooD
as possible. When the binding clouds
of steam had subsidized, the trainmen,
priests and others got to work, and thu
injured were taken out of the Pullman
and first-class car and removed to tenn
porary quarters, where the women OF the
party attended as beat they could to the
wants of the manned pilgrims They
tore OFT their underclothlng and made
bandages for gaping wounds, and tried in
the absence OF enough medical aid to go
round to stop the flow OF blood and
properly cleanse the wounds. Word was
at once sent TO Montreal, and orders from
there were sent to LevS to send out doc
tors from Quebec to attend to the
wounded and force OF men 10 clear tho
track.
The special train reached here at an
carly hour, and all the wounded were
they could be cared for.
1t is hard to say whore the blame for
the accident rests. 1t has been suggested
that Engineer Mcleod might have dozed
of to sleep, and thus. having missed see
ing the warning light, was unconscious
of his whereabouts. Indeed, this would
seem to be the only theory that can be
advanced, but strict investigation Will
be held at once to determine where the
responsibility rests.