The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-28
OPERATOR THOUGHT HIS
 ORDERS HAD BEEN KILLED
Pullman Cars Converted Into Temper ary Hospital, Where Injured Men Were TenderIy Carried and
 Finally Taken to City.
N oNDoN, December A.-During KV binding snow storm last night,
 k@-- twenty-three persons were killed

= E-m twenty-three persons were killed and thirty others injureud in a head-on collision between a westbound through passenger and a freight train near Wan stead on the Grand Trunk railway. The wreck was due to conflicting orders. The Pacific express was two hours late and running at high speed when 1t struck a freight as the latter was about to side track according to orders. The locomo- lives reared their pilots high in the air and fell into the ditch The baggage car telescoped the smoker and here the death list was made.
 The Pullman sleepers did not leave the rails and their occupants escaped except for bruises
 The responsibility for the accident has not been definitely fixed, but 1t is believed to have been due to a telegraph operator who gave an order to pass No. 5, the Pa cific Express, at Wanstead and failed to duplicate the order and give a copy of 1t to the conductor and engineer of the ex- press Instead of this the conductor of the express received a clearance order, telling him to run right through. The freight train stopped at Wanstead to side track and was telescoped by the express. The blinding storm which was raging rendered objects invisible at the distance of a few feet The operator at Wanstead is not usually on duty at night, but last evening he was in the office for a short time. He was going out at the door when he heard the telegraph instrument click and immediately call repeatedly the mes sage: Stop No. g." Stop No. D." Seizing his lantern the operator dashed out of the door and as he closed 1t behind him he heard tho crash of the ' sion up the track. se. There was not a house at hand to which the injured could be carried. The two Pullman cars were converted into tenn porary hospital. The injured were placed in the berths and everything possible done to ease their suffering.
 THE DEAD. ALEXANDER STEWART, Petrolia, Ont.
 MRS. ALEXANDER STEWART, Pe- trolia.
 A. RICKETTS, Sarnia Tunnel, fireman Mo- 5.
 J. GILLIEs, sarnia Tunnel engineer of freight
 MRS. J. TROTTER, Petrolia, Ont.
 
 H. S. FREEMAN, oil Springs, or Hen sall Ont
 NICHOLAS JEFFREY, London, Ont, GUY DE PENSER, ticketed La Crosse. Wash.
 DIR. fENwARDEN. ticketed Petrolia, Ont.
 WOMAN, supposed to be wife of Dr. Penwarden.
 J. H. BROCK, Brucefield Ont. o. B. BURWELL, Port Huron, Mich. CHEM BODLEY, Port Huron. WILSON MORTON, Chicago. ALEXANDER CAMERON, Strathroy, Ont.
 MISS GEDDIS, Sarnia, Ont. ED DE BEUS, Prescott, Ont, (died at hospital.
 MRS. BODLEY, Port Huron Mich LOTTIE LYNCH, Port Huron, Mich. GEORGE BURHOLDER, Sarnia, Ont. A. DOUGLASS, Alvinston, Ont. JOHN LUCAS, Strathroy, Ont. ROBERT STEVENSON, of Wyoming. UNIDENTIFIED man about 40 years old well dressed.
 VIOLETT BROCK, aged Il, of Chicago, formerly of Brucefield Ont. UNIDENTIFIED woman about 25 years old
 MRS. JULIA BARNES. woodstock, Ont.
 The Injured. Alexander M. Stewart Chicago, face bruised.
 Mrs. J. J. Cuthbertson, Port Huron. Mich, face, head and hands bruised. J. J. Ramplin. Toronto, bruised. Mrs. Samuel Cummins, Port Huron, Slight cuts.
 Hattie Northory, Peterboro, Ont, slight cuts
 J. R. Northery, Peterboro, Ont, bruised. MT. William Morse fractured arm; Mrs. Morse, his wife, not serious; their child, Sa1nia Morse, slightly injured Thomas Coote, Chicago hip injured. George Stacy. Wanstead, Ont, slightly ir jured.
 ;or. Basil Harvey, Chicago, lacerated wound in head.
 Mrs. J. M. stewart and two children. Oshkosh, Wis. Mrs. Stewart, fractured jaw; Earle, broken arm and coll9rbone; Hobart, fractured hip.
 Russell Quinton, burned hands. scalp wounds; considered serious. J. Barnes. Woodstock, Ont, injuries not serious.
 Brice Geddies, Brice, Ont, slightly in- jured
 ]. J. Cuthbertson. Ontario, fractured law bruises; considered serious John Bird, Chicago. fractured arm, in- tured back, scalp wound and decorations. J. A. Lamont, Wyoming. ont, frac- tured leg and decorations.
 Mrs. Gcttis and Mrs. Gotti. slightly in- :ured
 J. Shawlock Strathrcy, slightly injured. w. II. Cole and wife. Flint, Mich, slightly injured
 R. .. Mcdonald Strathroy, slightly iii- ;ured.
 Annie Sinclair, 1zokomo, Ont, slightly Injured.
 Miss Flossle Cuthbertson, Port Huron, slightly injured.
 Mrs. Hrstis, slightly injured. R. Jackson, Petrolia, Ont, slightly fn- Iured.
 Failed to Deliver Orders. According to Master of Transportation Price of this city, 1t was the agent and operator at Watford. the next station east ef Wanst cad, who failed to deliver to the rain crew of No. 5 their orders to pass
 
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