Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-16
TWELVE KILLED.
Grand Trunk Express coIIides With
Freight Near Toronto, Ont.
Cars IeIcscoped..12 Killed and Dozen 0,
More Seriously Injured.

Trenton, Ont, Nov. ia Grand
Trunk exress train, bound for Toronto
crashed into moving freight tram
near Murray Hill crossing. two miles
west of here, at $50 this morning, and
several cars were smashed almost to
splinters. So far as known IL people
were killed and dozen or more SER
iously injured.
A misplaced switch was the cause
OF the accident, the west bound train
taking the wrong track on which was
the east bound freight The train
which left Montreal, at o'clock last
night, consisted of express, mail and
baggage car, a second-class car, one
first-clasS coach and two Pullman
sleepers. The second-class car was
next to the baggage car and ahead OF
the first-class coach and sleepers II
was pretty well filled with people
there being 20 or more passengers in
without injury.
Between Belleville and Murray Hill
crossing the railroad is single tracked
the only single piece of track between
Toronto and Montreal. At MURRAY
Hill crossing the west bound express
usually leaves the single track and
takes the double track and it was
about l IL miles west of this pom,
that the accident occurred.
Whether the signals were right o,
not will never be known from the engl-
neer or fireman of the wrecked train
for they are both dead. Both engines
were totally destroyed and the freight
engine was thrown completely over
the passenger engine into the ditch be-
yond. The engineer and fireman OF
the freight engine. Thomas Ivans and
Alex Toppin, both of Toronto, jumped
and escaped with slight injuries. W.
H. Brady, engineer, of Belleville, and
John Mcdonald, fireman, of Belle
vile, who were in charge of the pas
senSer engine, was killed
The greatest destruction was
wrought in the second-class car, which
was full of passengers, a number of
cattlemen and Poles. The baggage car
was driven into and almost complete
ly through it, the passengers being
crushed and mangled underneath the
timbers of the car. The mail car was
forced right on top of the baggage
car and the express car was partially
wrecked. The first-class car was un-
injured. as were also the two sleepers,
although the passengers We're awaken
ed by the shock. The work Of pulling
out the dead and injured was com
menced Immediately, but it was late
this morning before all the bodies We're
taken out. Some of them were so hor-
ms n lad not al
most impossible. The injured were
taken the hospital at Bellevlle.
The dead-Wm. Luness. cattle drover,
Toronto: Charles Goodchild, cattle
Toronto; John Casey. engineer, off
duty. Belleville: VIM. Brady. engin-
eer, Montreal express, Belleville; Marie
c. Kern, native of Russia; George Ha-
bruch, and Katy n. Habruch natives
of Russia: Three other Russians, man.
woman and female child, all unidenti-
fed unknown man. legs and part of
trunk only recovered, all the Russian
party had through tickets to Cincin-
natl. They arrived at Quebec, last
week on the steamer Laurentin.
The injured-Wm. Kinnear, Prescott,
wounded about head John Newman,
baggagemaster, Toronto, bad scalp
wounds; Leon La Blanc, baggageman,
Montreal, slightly wounded; John Nc
Namara, fireman, Brockville, condition
critical; Albert Tracey, Toronto, legs
injured; A. p. Walker. fireman, Belle
vile, face injured; Frederick Cohen,
German immigrant, thigh fractured
and skull thought to be: c. Paulin,
Chesley, injured slightly; A. Carey. Co
burg, shoulder fractured: B. Backus,
Brockville, face lacerated.