Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-10
DEATH STOLE UPON SLEEP Appalling Railway Accident at
 Craig'S Road, Quebec. AT LEAST A SCORE SLAIN
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 Crashes lr!o he First
PILGRIMS BOUND 10 ST. ANsE's SHRINE
Tae~o Was Igo Warming Before the Iron Monster Planged Through tlle Sleeper. Tho-hceident Cannot Be Ac-
 counted for-The Dead.

Craigs Road, Que, July a--In the early hours of this morning there occurred an accident on the Grand Trunk railroad at the station here that has seldom been equaled in horror by any similar event in Canadian railway circles.
 A special excursion passenger train rushing along in the darkness of the early morning crashed into another train of the same kind preceding it and killed just how many is not clearly known at present. but some twenty people are be- lieved to be dead, and the wounded are numbered in the vicinity of two scores. At this writing exact figures are impos- sble to obtain, nor can the full list of names of the victims be had.
 The trains that came into 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 Baupre, 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 Of the lass of life occurred The. first train reached this station, which Is fourteen rniles west of Lewis, about ; clock, and stopped at the tank to take water. Due precautions were taken and tiIe sernaphore thrown to danger against the following train.
 Only the trainmen were out and about attending to their duties. The Pullman, in the rear, Nyas 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 dashed into the rear Pullman of the first section. So great was the impetus of the colliding train that the engine imbedded itself in the palace car and the latter plunged forward and partially telescoped the first car immediately in front. Ev- cry 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 sur roundngs and position mamed, bleeding and bruised conscious of little else but the agony that racked them. Il was an awful scene The cries of the wounded and moans of the dying and the outpour ing of passengers froT cars that were not badly damaged and the hurrying forms of the uninjured trainmen, with their flickering lanterns, all combined to make a sight seldom experienced in it's tragic horrors.
 The work of rescue was begun as soon as possible. When the binding clonds of steam had subsided the trainmen priests and others got together and the dead and wounded were taken from the ruins of the engine, the Pullman and the first-claas car and removed to temporary quarters, where the women of the party ministered as best they could to the wants of the maimed pilgrims. Th4y tore off their underclothing and made the bandages for gaping wounds in the absence of enough medical aid to go around to staunch the flow of blood and properly cleanse the wounds. Word was at once sent to Montreal and an order from there was sent to Lewis to send out a force of doctors from Quebec to attend to the wounded and a force of men to clear the track. The special train from there reached here at an early hour and all of the wounded that could be moved were placed on board and sent east to Lewis, where they could be cared for in hospitals.
 It is hard to say where the blame for the accident rests. It has been suggest ed that Engineer Mcleod might have dosed off to sleep and thus missed seeing the warning semaphore, and was not conscious of his whereabouts. Indeed this would seem to be the only theory that can be advanced, but q strict in- vestiga tion will be held at once to deter mine where the responsibility rests. The following are all the names of the killed that can be obtained at this writing:
 Rev Father Merceri, Richmond.
 Charles Hedard, mail clerk. and daughter, Richmond.
 Miss Valin. St. Joseph de Lewis.
 Miss Phaneuf, St. Joseph de Lewis.
 Richard Perkins, fireman. Richmond.
 Mrs. c. Canyer Danville.
 Hector McLeon, engineer, Richmond.
 Two ladies from Eli, Shefford county, names unlEiwn.
 Two other ladies, unidentified.
 Father Dignon, Windsor Mills. is thought to be fatally injured.
 Rev. Father DesRosiers has leg and arm broken, and is otherwise badly in- jured.
 The colored porter of the Pullman car Balmoral received fearful injuries. and has since died