The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-28
28 Killed and 30 Others
 Wounded.
PASSENGER HITS FREIGHT
Operator Failed to Deliver
 Train Orders.
Pullman Cars Turned Into Hospitals to Care for the Wounded-Im- pact Threw the Two Engines
 Clear of the Track.

CkohI oI tne @AoSA'
 London, Ont, Dec. 27.-During blind ing snow storm last night twenty eight persons were killed and thirty others in- jured in a head-on collision between west bound through passenger and a freight train near wenstead on the Grand Trunk Railway. The wreck was due to conflicting orders. Some of the injured may die.
 The Pacific Express was two hours late and running at high speed when it struck . freight as the latter was about to side track according to orders. The locomo- tives 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 it is believed to have been due to telegraph operator who gave an order to pass No. 5. the Pa- cihc Express, at Wanstead and failed to duplicate the order to and give a copy of 1t to the conductor and engineer of the express. 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 binding storm which was raving rem dered object invisible at the distance of few feet. The operator at Wanstead is not usually on duty at night. but last evening he was in the office for short time.
 He was going out at the door when he heard the telegraph instrument click and immediately call repeatedly the massage "stop No &" stop No. s.~ SeizfnB. q lantern the operator dashed for the door and as he closed 1t behind him hs heard the crash of the collision up the track. There was not house at hand to which the injured could be carried. The two Pullman cars on the train were converted into a temporary hospital. The injured were placed in the berths and everything possible done to ease their sufferings-
 List of the Dead.
 Alexander stewart, Petrolia, Ont.
 Mrs. Alexander Stewart, Petrolia.
 A. Ricketts, Sarnia Tunnel. fireman T J Gfllies sarnla Tunnel engineer freight ..
 Mrs. J. Trotter, Petrolia. Ont.
 H. B. Lawrence. Watford. Ont.
 F. s. Freeman, oil Springs. or Hensau' Ont,
 Nicholas Jeffrey, London, Ont.
 Guy de Penier, Ticketed La Crosse. Washington. . Dr. Penwarden, ticketed Petrolia, Ont. woman supposed to be wife of Dr. Pen warden.
 J. H. Brock, Brucefeid, Ont.
 O. B. Burwell. Port Huron, Mich' Clem Bodley. Port Huron.
 Wilson Morton, Chicago.
 Alexander Cameron, Strathroy. Ont
 Miss Geddes, Sarnia. Ont.
 Ed. De Beaus, Prescott, Ont. (Died at hospital9 .
 Mrs. Bodley, Port Huron. Mich.
 I,ottie Lynch, Port Huron.
 George Burkholder. Sarnia' ont-
 A Douglas, Alvinston, Ont.
 w. John Lucas, Strathroy ont.
 yaobert Stevenson of Wyoming.
 1rnIdentified man about 40 years Of age we'll dressed. ..,.o .orro- eriy of Bruceheld. Ont. ~. Unidentified woman, about So years oi sse ,,.,a.d woman. about 60 years of
 List of Injured.
 rha ,,iured: Alex M. Stewart, Chicago, ..ce bruised: Mrs. J. J. Cuthbertson, Fo.t Hnron, Mich, face, head ana han9. hr,hsed: ]. J. Ramplin, toronto n~ruiesu' ~ A.. Samuel Cummings, Port Huron .ush+ cuts: Hattie Northey. Peterooro' Ont. slightly injured; J. R. NollneS' IyI ferboro, Ont, bruised; Mrs. Cooie' ..- caeo bruised; F. B. Baker LonuoA' -,so iocatad shoulder; William Morse "ile and child. Sarnia; MT. Morse fractured srr Mrs. Morse not serious, child snSht- S, iniured. Thomas Coole, Chicago, mp ;ntnred: George Stacey. Wanstead, ont Uuzhtlv iniured; Dr. Basil Harvey, ChI- caSo Iacerated wound in head; Mrs. d. M stewart and two children, Oshkosh. Wis. Mrs. Stewart fractured jaw, Ear hroken arm and collar bone, Hobart trac- tured hip Russell Quiln' Chlcago' burns m hands. scalp wound, considered serl- ous. Price Geddes, Sarnla, Ont, eslightly InIured: J. J. CuthbertSon, Port Huron, Mich. fractured jaw, bruises. eonsidered serious; John Bird Chicago, fractured arm. injured back, scalp wounds ana iaceration; J. A..Lamont. Wyoming ont, fractured leg and decorations; Mrs. w. Gott and Miss Gott London, slightly m tured; J. Shawlock, Strathroy shghuy Mich. slightly injured; R. h' McDonsiu' ss,e strathroy, slightly injured; Annie Sin- clair, Kokomo. Ont, slightly injured; Miss Flossie Cuthbertson. Port Huron; ; Mrs, Pugsley, London. slightly injured; R. Jackson. Petrolia, ont, slightly injured.
 Mistake at watford.
 According to Master of Transportation x,rica of this city 1t was the agent and onsrator at Watford, the next statlon ssst of Wanstead, who failed to deliver to inc train crew of No. their orders to nsss the freight at wanstead. lrainInas- Fer Price says that in explanation of the mistake that brought such terrible re. ,'it. tba operator says he understood tbe dispatcher to Kill the orders for No. to pass the freight at Wanstead, but n ia denied in the dispatcher's office here that the order was killed.
 The Pacific Express was crowoed With vsonIs returning from holiday trip. No. 5 was running fully fifty miles an hour through the blizzard when at the Wan stead siding the headlight of the freight engtne loomed through the snow It was