Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-11-17
IL KILLED.
A Grand Trunk Express
Crashes Into a Moving
Freight Train.
A MISPLACED SWITCH
Was the Cause of tho Accident which
Occurred Near Murray Hin, Ontario,
A Dozen or More Seriously In
jured-Severai Cars smash
ed to Splinters.
A MISPLACED SWITCH

Trenton, Ont, Nov. ia Grand Trunk
express train bound for Toronto crashed
into moving freight train near Murray
Hill crossing. two miles west of here ut
$3.50 this morning and several cars were
smashed almost to spinters. So far as
known IL people were killed and dozen
or more seriously injured.
A misplaced switch was the cause of The
accident. the west bound train taking the
wrong track on which was the eastbound
freight.
The train which left Montreal At $
o'clock last night consisted of express,
mail and baggage cars, Il second class car
one first class and two Pullman slCepcrs.
Inc second class car was next to the bag
gage car and ahead of the first coach and
sieepers. 1t was pretty we'll filled with
people there being ~ OF more passengers
in it and hardly any of them escaped III
jury.
Between Bellevllle and Murray Hin
crossing the road is single tracked, the
only piece of single track between Tor
onto and NJ lntreal Al Murray Hill cross
ing the west bound express usually leaves
tie single track and takes the double
track and It was about mile and hail
west of this point that the accident oc-
Cured
Whether the signals were right or not
this morning will never be known from
the engineer or fireman OF the Wrecked
train for they are both dead. Both en-
slnes were totally destroyed and the
freight engine was thrown completely
over the passenger engine into the ditch
beyond.
The engineer and fireman of the freight
engine. Thomas Ivens and Alex Toppln,
both of Toronto, jumped and escaped with
slight injuries. W. ii. Brady, engineer OF
Belleville and John Mcdonald, fireman,
of Relleville. who We're in charge or the
passenger engine. were killed.
The greatest destruction was wrought
in the second class car, which was fuU Of
passengers, including a number OF cattle
men and a party of Poles. The baggage
ear was driven into and almost complete
ly through IL, the passengers being crush
ed and mangled beneath the ttmhers or
the car. Tho mail car was forced rign,
on top OF the baggage car and the cN-
press car was partially wrecked. The nrst
class 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 Immediately, but II was late
this morning before all the bodies We're
got out. Some OF them were so horribly
mangled that recognition was almost i'm
possible The injured We're taken 10 the
hospital at BelleVille.
TIE DEAD AND WOUNDED.
The dead:
| Nllnam lOnnesS, CaNl1e uEoNS', io' NH-
to.
Charles Goodchild. cattle drover Toron-
to.
John Casey. engineer on duty, Beleville'
William Brady, engineer of Montreal eN-
, press, Relleville.
John Macdonald, firemen Of Montreal
4 express, Relleville.
Merle c. Kern. native OF Russia.
, George Habrich. native OF Russia.
o Eatrine Habrich, native Of Russia
Three other Russians, man, woman and
| female child all unidentified.
n Unknown man, legs and part OF trunh
[ only recovered
v All the Russian party had through tick
e cts to Cincinnati, They arrived at Suehs>
: last week on the steamship Laurentian.
e The injured:
o William Kinnear. Prescott, wounded
$ about head.
4 James Newman baggage man. Toronto
e bad scalp wound.
e Leon la Blanc. baggage man, Montreal
slightly injured.
: John Mcnamara, fireman. Brockville
I condition critical.
I Albert Tracey, Toronto, legs injured,
A. p. Walker, fireman, Belleville, face
4 injured.
Frederick Cohen. German immigrant
r thigh fractured and skull thought To b,
a crushed.
q c. Paulin, Chesley. injuries slight,
{ A. Carey, Cobourg, shoulder fractured
B. Bsckus, Rockville, face lacerated.