The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-16
TWELVE WERE KILLED
FRIGHTFULLY FATAL COLLISION
On THE GRAND TRUNK NEAR
TRENTON, ONTARIO
MANY ARE BADLY INJURED
An Express Train Bound for Tor
onto Crashed Into a Freight
Misplaced Switch Was the Cause
of the Accident-SeveraI Cars
Practically Reduced to SpIinters
-Trainmen Dead.

TRENTON, Ont, Nov. IA Grand
Trunk express train, bound for To-
ronto, crashed into a moving freight
train near Murray Hill crossing, two
miles west Of here. at 3:3s this morning.
ana several cars were smashed almost
10 spllnters- So far as known twelve
persons We're killed and a dozen or
more seriously injured A misplaced
switch was the cause of the accident,
the westbound train taking the wrong
track, on which was the eastbound
freight. The train, which left Montreal
at O'Clock last night, consisted of ex-
press, mail and baggage cars, a sec
oEd-claSS car, one firSt-claSs coach and
two Pullman sleepers. The second
class car was next to the baggage car
ana ahead Of the first-class coach and
sIeepers. 1t was pretty we'll filed with
people, there being twenty or more
passengers in it, and hardly any of
them escaped without injury. Be
tween Bentonville 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 westbound express usual
~ leaves the single track and takes the
double track, and it was about a mile
and half west of this point where
the accident occurred. Whether the
SAShdiS were IISHl OF not Will never De
known from the engineer or fireman of
the wrecked train, for they are both
dead. Both engines were totally de-
stroyed, and the freight engine was
thrown completely over the passenger
engine into the ditch beyond The en-
gineer and fireman of the freight train.
Thomas Ivens and Alexander Toppin.
both of Toronto both jumped and
escaped with slight injuries. w. H.
RTqAU pinanF Of Tot,w
Macdonald. fireman, Of Belleville, who
were in charge of the passenger en-
CINE, were killed. The greatest de-
struction was wrought in the second
class car. The baggage car was driven
into and almost completely through it,
the passengers being crushed and
mangled underneath the timbers of the
car. tThe mail car was forced on top
of the baggage car, and the express
car was partially wrecked. The first
class car was uninjured, as were also
the two sleepers, although the passen-
gers were awakened by the shock The
work Of pulling out the dead and in
jured was commenced Immediately, but
1t was late this morning before all the
bodies were gotten out Some Of them
were so horribly mangled that recog-
milton was almost impossible. The in
jured were taken to the hospital at
Belleville.
THE DEAD.
WILLIAM LUNNES, cattle drover, Toronto
CHARTS GooDCHILD, cattle drover,
Toronto.
JOHN CASEY. engineer. of duty. Belle
Vile.
WILLIAM BRADY, engineer, OF Montreal
express, Belleville.
JOHN MACDONALD fireman Of Montreal
express, Bellevile.
MERLE c. KERN, native of Russia.
GEORGE HARRICH, native Of Russia.
KATHERINE HARRICH, native Of Russia.
THREE OTHER RUSSIANS. man, woman
and female child, all unidentified.
UNKNOWN MAN, legs and part OF trunk
only recovered.
All Of the Russian party had through
tickets TO Cincinnati.
They arrived at New York last week IN
the steamship Laurentine.
THE INJURED.
William Kinner. postal clerk. wounded
about head.
James Newman. baggageman. Toronto, bad
scalp wounds.
Leon La Blanc. baggageman. Montreal,
slightly injured
John Mcnamara, fireman, Brockville. con-
dition critical.
Albert Tracy, Toronto, legs injured.
A. p. Walker, fireman. Belleville, face in
jured.
Frederick Cohen. German immigrant, thigh
fractured and skull thought to be crushed.
c. Paulin, Chesley, Ill, injuries slight.
A. Carey. Colburg, shoulder fractured.
b. Backus, Brockville, face lacerated.