The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-19
Grand TRUNK collision.
Eleven Persons Killed and a Num-
Der Injured, Some Fatally, Near
Murray Hill, Ont.
EXPRESS CoLLIDED WITH A FREIGHT.
VIE Accident Occurred at a Place Called
Diamond Crossing, Two Miles from
Trenton-The Express Ran Intoan Open
Switch and Dashed Into the Freight
Train.

Trenton. Ont, Nov. ia Grand
! Trunk express train, bound LOT 10
ronto. crashed into a moving freight
train near Murray Hill crossing, TWO
miles west of here at $3.50 yesterday
morning, and several cars were
smashed TO splinters. So far as known
II persons were killed and a dozen or
more seriously injured.
The Dead.
w. II. Brady, of Belleville; engineer
of express.
John Mcdonald, Belleville; fireman
of express.
James G~oodchild, driver of Toronto.
Unknown child, German.
William L.unness, Toronto
John Riley, engineer.
Fireman of freight train, name not
known.
Two passengers. names
A. Neary, of Coburg.
Albert Tracey, of Prescott.
The Injured.
Three names unknown,
were fatally injured.
Twenty passengers. most OF them
being in The Pullman cars, were more
or less seriously hurt. Among them
are:
John Casey. engineer, of Brockville.
George PauIin, cattle dealer, of To-
ronto.
John Mcnamara. of Brockville.
L. Lebance. of Montreal.
w. Kenner. of Prescott
A. p. Walker, of Belleville.
Fred Cain. of Wickland.
James Newman. of Toronto.
\ misplaced switch was the cause OF
the accident, the w~est-bound traintak--
ing the wrong track, on which was the
east-bound freight.
The train. which left Montreal at
eight o'clock Sunday night, consisted
of express, mail and baggage cars, a
sceond-class car. one first-class coach
and two Pullman sleepers. The Sec
ond-class car was next to the baggage
car and ahead of the first-class coach
and sleepcrs. 1t was pretty well filled
with people, there being 20 or more
passengers in it, and hardly any of
them escaped without injury.
Between Belleville and Murray Hill
crossing The road is single tracked, the
only piece of single track between To-
ronto and Montreal. At Murray Hill
crossing the west-bound express uSu-
ally leaves the single track and takes.
the double track, and it was about a.
mile and 4 half west of this point
where the accident occurred. Whether
the signals were right or not will
never be known from the engineer or
fireman of the wrecked train, for they
are both dead. Both engines were
totally destroyed, and the freight en-
CINE was thrown completely over the.
passenger engine into the ditch be-
yond.
The engineer and fireman of the
freight engine, Thomas Ivens and Alex
ander Toppin, both of Toronto,
jumped and escaped with slight in
juries. w. H. Brady, engineer, Of
Belleyille. and John Mcdonald, fire.
man, of Belleville, who were in charge.
of the passenger engine, were killed.
IL SItGtcSI was
wrought in the ~second-class car. The
baggage ear was driven into and al
most completely drought it, the pas
sengers Deing crushed and mangled
underneath the timbers of the car.
The mai car was forced right on top
OF the baggage car, and the express
ear was wrecked. The first-cIass car
was uninjured, as were also the two
sleepers, although the passengers were
awakened by the shock.
The work of pulling out the dead
and injured was commenced immedi-
ately, but it was late yesterday MORN
ing before all the bodies were got out.
Some Of them were so horribly
mangled that recognition was almost
impossible. The injured were taken
to the hospital at BeIleville.