New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-12-31
THIRTY DEAD Wreck.
Thirt I've 0thors Recsive Injuries
il Collision On the Grand
Trunk Road
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London, Ont. Dec. 80 One OF the
most frightful5 railway disasters ii tile
history OF Canada occurred at 10: 10
o'clock Friiday mig ct AWanstead, u
station On the Sarnia branch Of the
/ Grand TRUNK, miles from this city,
when express s, known as the
Pacific express, flying westward ut
the rate Of SO miles an hour and
crowded to its capacity with pass
ssengersS returning to their homes
from holiday visits crashed into an
east-bonnd freight.
Il The latest estimate Of the fatal
tiles is 80 killed, and as or more i'm
jured.
List Of the Dead.
flowing is q partial and official
list Of identified dead: Alex Stew
art, Petrolia, Ont. Mrs. Alex Stew
art, Petrolia, Ont; AZ Ricketts,, Sar-
MIA Tunnel, fireman; y Gillies, SaT-
mia, tunnel engineer Mrs. Trotter,
Petrolia, Ont; Mr.. Lawrence, Wat
ford, Ont; r. s. Freeman, Oil Springs
or HensalI, Ont; y - Jeffrey, Lon
don, Ont; Glenn Podley, Port Huron,
Mich; Gay Debenier, ticketed to- La
Crosse, Wash; DR.. Penwarden, tick
eted to Petrolia, Ont; woman, sup
posed to be Penwarden's wife; . AZ.
Brock, Brucefeld; O. B. Burwel1, Port
Huron; Wilson Morton, Chicago.
In addition to the above, Is bodies
remain to be identified. 3
Miss Lottie Lynch, Port Huron,
Mich, about % years old, died u
hospital, London. .S% II .Sls
List Of Injured.
The injured as far as known are as
] follows: Alexander M. Stewart, Wing
I ham, Ont; J J. Cut hbertson and wife,
Port Huron, Mich; Flossie Cuthbert-
Ram bin, Toronto, Ont; Mrs. Samuel
4 Cummings, Port Huron, Mich; Hattie
{ Northey, Peterboro, Ont; James r.
/ Northey, Peterboro, Ont; Nellie
#Coote, Chicago; Frank 3. Baker,
London, Ont; w. N. Morse, wife and
three children, sarnia; Thomas
Coote, Chicago; George Stacey, Wan
stead, Ont; Edward Deevans, Pres
colt, Ont; DR.. Basil Harvey, Chicago;
Mrs. 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
cage; Albert Limont, Wyoming Ont !;
Mrs. w. Colt and Margaret Colt, Lon
don, Ont; J. r.. ShaWles, Strathroy,
Ont; w. H.sCole and wife, Flint, Mich;
B. e. Mcdonald, Strathroy, Ont; Mrs.
L. N. Byrnes, Sarnia,. Ont; Annie Sim
clair, Komoka, Ont; Mrs. Pugsley,
London, Ont; Carl Stewart, Oshkosh,
Wis. 81 55 #
Robert jackson, Petrolia; Hobart
Stewart, Oshkosh, Wis; James
Baines, Woodstock, Ont. s5 s
The darkness of night and the rag
ing of a blizzard added horrors 4,
the wreck. Fortunately the fire hor-
ror was averted. A fire broke out in
the Wreckage of the5day coach, but il
was smothered with snow and coats.
which were thrown on it before il
gained Roadway. + &2 /.
The Pacific express is a 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
" 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 approach ching, apparently.
and the freight had just commenced
to pull in upon the siding when the
passenger train came up.
Ii. {. Il, J. s5 Awful shock. t5 81
ss The shock was aWff VI. The trains
came together quarely head-on. In
= second the baggage and express
cars of the passenger train tele-
scoped into the day coach. This day
coach was reduced to splinters aud
fra gments back to the last three win
doWs As 1T was crowded, the re-
suits were terrible. Fire that broke
out was quickly ssmot hered, but the
fire was scarcely worse danger than
the cold, however. For three hours
or more wounded and maimed passens
gers were pinned 1nde rneath wreck
age, crying pite ously for help while
they suffered from exposure to the
elements. Il
Exposure und oubted1y FASTENED the,
death Of some of the more seriously
injured and caused the death Of son.<
Of those who might have been saved
if it had been only question Of
extricating them from the swreckage.
The Pullman cars stayed on the
track and were comparative unin-
,jured although the passengers in
them were severely shaken IN ting
shock. q
Relief Train Semi.
& AS soon as possible word was sent ]