Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-12-30
THIRTY DEAD N. WRECK.
Thirty-Five Others Receive Injuries
in Collision on the Grand
Trunk Road.
AWFUL COLLISION At wAAs1EAO, ONT.
p.c,nc Express, we1t bound, Crashes
Into Freight While Running at
Full speed-Most of Killed Are
Mangled beyond Recognition =
Dead and Injured Taken to London.

Into Fre18nt Wmlle Nun1Am& AZ
Full speed-Most of Killed Are
Mangled beyond Recognition II
Dead and Injured Taken to London.
London, Ont, Dec. Bone of the
mostfrightful railway disasters in the
history of Canada occurred at 1910
o'clock Friday night at Wanstead,
station on the Sarnia branch of the
Grand Trunk, 40 miles from this city,
when express No. 5, known as the
Pacific express, flying westward at
the rate of so miles an hour, and
crowded to it's capacity with pas
sengers returning to their homes
from holiday visits, crashed into AN
east-bound freight.
The latest estimate of the fatal
tiles is 80 killed, and IS or more in
jured.
List of the Dead.
Following is partial and official
list of identified dead: Alex Stew
art, Petrolia, Ont; Mrs. Alex Stew.
art, Petrolia, Ont; A. Ricketts,, Sar-
mia Tunnel, fireman; J. Gillies. SaY-
mia, tunnel engineer; Mrs. Trotter,
Petrolia, Ont; Mr.. Lawrence, Wat
ford, Ont; F. s. Freeman, Oil Springs
OF Hensall, Ont; Jeffrey, Lon-
don, Ont; Glen Podley, Port Huron,
Mich; Gay Debenier, ticketed to La
Crosse, Wash; DIR. Penwarden, tick
eted to Petrolia, Ont; woman, sup
posed to be Penwarden's wife; j. II.
Brock, Brucefeld; O. B. Burwell, Port
Huron; Wilson Morton, Chicago.
In addition to the above, is bodies
remain to be identified.
Miss Lottie Lynch, Port Huron,
Mich, about 20 years old, died in
hospital, London.
List Of Injured.
The injured as far as known are as
follows: Alexander NJ. Stewart, Wing
ham, Ont; j. j. Cuthbertson and wife,
Port Huron, Mich; Flossie Cuthbert-
son, Port Huron, Mich; James p.
Kamblin, Toronto, Ont; Mrs. Samuel
Cummings, Port Huron, Mich; Hattie
Northey, Peterboro, Ont; James r.
Northey, Peterboro, Ont; Nellie
Coote, Chicago; Frank Z. Baker,
London, Ont; W. N. Morse, wife and
three children, Sarnia; Thomas
Coote, Chicago; George Stacey, Wan
stead. Ont: Edward Deevans. Pres
colt, Ont; DIR. Basil Harvey, Clicago;
Mrs. J. M. Stewart and child, Oshkosh,
Wis; Russell Quinn, Chicago; James
Banes,. Woodstock, Ont; Beatrice
Geddes, Sarnia, Ont; Lottie Lynch,
Port Huron, Mich; John Bierd, Chi
cago; Albert Limont, Wyoming, Ont;
Mrs. w. Colt and Margaret Colt, Lon
don, Ont; j. +. Shawles, Strathroy,
Ont; w. H. Cole and wife, Flint, Mich;
b. X. Mcdonald, Strathroy, Ont; Mrs.
L. N. Byrnes, Sarnia, Ont; Annie Sin
clair, Komoka, Ont; Mrs. Pugsley,
London, Ont; Carl Stewart, Oshkosh,
Wis.
Robert Jackson, Petrolia; Hobart
Stewart, Oshkosh, Wis; James
Baines, Woodstock, Ont.
The darkness of night and the rag
ing of blizzard added horrors 10
the wreck. Fortunately, the fire hor-
TOR was averted. A fire broke out i'll
the wreckage of the day coach, but it
was smothered with snow and coats.
which were thrown on it before ii
gained Roadway.
The Pacific express is fast train.
Friday night it was delayed two
hours by the heavy travel, and at
Wanstead it was speeding to make up
time. The freight was working slow
1y east under orders to take the
switch at Wanstead, and allow the
express to pass. In the binding
snowstorm neither engineer saw the
other train approaching, apparently.
and the freight had just commenced
to pull in upon the siding when the
passenger train came up.
Awful Shock.
The shock was awful. The trains
came together squarely head-on. In
a second the baggage and express
cars of the passenger train tele-
scoped into the day coach. This day
coach was reduced to splinters aud
fragments back to the last three win
dows. AS it was crowded, the re-
suits were terrible. Fire that broke
out was quickly smothered. but; the
fire was scarcely worse danger than
the cold, however. For three hours
OF more wounded and MANNED passen-
gers were pinned underneath wreck
age, crying piteously for help, while
they suffered from exposure to the
elements.
Exposure undoubtedly hastened the
death of some of the more seriously
injured and caused the death of sonic
of those who might have been saved
if it had been only a question of
extricating them from the wreckage.
The Pullman cars stayed on the
track and were comparatively unin-
jured although the passengers in
them were severely shaken in the
shock.
Relief Train Sent.
As soon as possible word was sent
to this city of the wreck and relief
train with dozen London doctors
was dispatched to the scene. The
work of removing the dead and IN
cured was at once begun. Halt al
dozen bodies were recovered within a
short time and a number of wounded
removed from the wreckage. Trains
were made up to send the wounded to
London hospitals.
Pihful scehea.
Efforts to identity the Wounded and
dead were attended with difficulty
The dead bodies taken from the wreck
werA trightfully maneled, some ~