The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-07-10
NOBLE WORK BY THE WOMEN
THEIR CARE FOR THE WOUNDED IN
 4 FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.

One Excursion Train Crashes Into Another
 and Thirteen Persons Were Killed and
 Several Injured-The Women Who Es-
 capped Tore Their Underclothng Into
 Pieces to Mako Bandages for the Wound
 ed.
 Craigs Road. Que, July 9.-In the early hours of this morning there oc- cured 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 annals.
 A special excursion passenger train, rushing along in the darkness of the early morning, crashed into another train of the same kind preceding 1t and killed thirteen and injured scores of others.
 The trains that came in collision were special excursion trains filled with pill grims en route from Sherbrooke, Rich mond and Windsor Mills to Lewis, where they were to cross over to Quebec and proceed to the shrine at St. Anne de Beaupre and were following one an- other with an interval of twenty min utes between them. The forward train was making good time, having left Richmond at 10 o'clock last night. On the rear of this train was a 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 oc- cured.
 The first train reached this station, which is fourteen miles west of Lewis, about o'clock, and stopped at the tank to take water. Due precautions were taken and the semaphore thrown to danger against the following train. Only the trainmen were out and about at tending to their duties. The Pullman i'm the rear was wrapped in silence and the sleepers were unaware of the terri ble fate that was rushing upon them. Suddenly there was a great crash the second train coming at full speed had dashed into the rear Pullman of the first section. So great was the impetus of the colliding train that the engine embedded itself in the palace car, and
 the latter plunged forward and partial l ly telescoped the first-class car immedi- ately 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 awoke to their horrible surroundings and position, maimed, bleeding and bruised, conscious of little else but the agony that racked them. It was an aw- | ful scene The cries of the wounded and the moans of the dying and the ioutpouring of passengers from the cars l that were not badly damaged, and tho hurrying forms of the uninjured train | men with their fiickering lanterns, al combined to make distressing sight. The work of rescue was begun as soor as possible. When the binding clouds of steam had subsided the trainmen l priests and others got together and the dead and wounded were taken from the ruins of the engine, Pullman ano first class car and removed to tenn porafy quarters, where the women o1 l the party ministered as best they coulc l to the wants of the maimed. They tore 1 off their underclothing and made ban dages for gaping wounds and tried, 1T l the absence of enough medical aid tc 20 round to staunch the flow of blood and properly cleanse the wounds. l Word was at once sent to Montrea and an order from there was sent tc l Lewis to send out a force of doctors l from Quebec to attend to the wondet and a force of men to clear the track | The special train reached here at ar early hour and all of the wounded that could be moved were placed aboart and sent east to Lewis, where they could l be cared for in hospitals It is hart 1 to say where the blame for the acci l dent rests It has been suggested tha | Engineer Mcleod might have faller asleep and thus have missed seeing tht warning semaphore and was uncon l scious of his whereabouts. Indeed this would seem to be the only theory tha
 can be advanced, but strict investi | gation will be held at once to deter
 mine where the responsibility rests. l Lewis, Ore, July 9.-The scene in tht
 Hotel Dieu after the arrival Of thu | wounded from the Craig's road wreci
 was something which an eyewitness car never forget. The unf or.unate p!l grims all occupid beds in the ditfcren
 wards and were attended to by nun! and ladies' The cries Of some of then were fearful to hear.
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