Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-27

London, Ontario. Dec. PA fright
f1l collision occurred last night between
q west bound passenger and an east
bound freight on the Grand Trunk rail-
road at Wanstead, a station on the
Sarnia branch and according to the
latest reports thirty persons were killed
and thirty-five injured. The pas
senger train was running at q high rate
OF speed. The freight under slow
headway was to have taken the switch
at Wanstead to allow the passenger to
pass.
Apparently neither of the engineers
eaw the danger in time to avoid the ac-
cident, for the engines came together
wiki frightful crash, oveuturning in
50 the ditch. The baggage and express
cars were, telescoped into the smoker
with appalling results. The wreck was
so complete 1t is thought hardly a sim
gle passenger In the smoker escaped
Injury. The other cars of the passen-
ger train remained on the track. The
work Of removing the dead and injured
was then proceeded with. Among the
known dead are: Engineer Gillies, of
SaInia Tttnnel, and the fireman Of the
express engine.
The ill-,fated express consisted of two
Baggage cars, q sfhoker two first-class
coaches and two Pullmans. The snlok-
er, which was telescoped by coach
4 behind it. had the sides knocked out of
Il. the roof falling and imprisoning the
passengers. It was in this car the
most awful havoc and loss of life oc-
CURED. The wreck shortly after the
collision caught fire and but for the
heroic effsrts of a brigade of passen-
gers organized and led by an old man
the disaster might have been more dis
asircns. BY heroic efforts this brigade
put out tie fire by throwing snow on
the flames with their hats and hands.
They then turned their efforts to get
ting out the wounded. who had their
sufferings Increased by the binding
storm, with the mercury near zero. The
dead and injured are arriving in London
b q special train this morning and the
work OF identifying the dead and car
ing for the sufferers is being hurried as.
fast as possible.
The dead:
Alexander Stewart and wife. Petro-
lla, Ont.
"A Ricketts,, Sarnia, tunnel fireman.
Giliies, Sarnia. tunnel engineer.
Mrs. Trotter, Petrolia.
Mr.. Lawrence, Watford, Ont.
r. S. Freeman, Oil Springs. Ont.
Mr.. Jeffry, London.
Glenn Bodley, PORT Huron, Mich.
Gay Dehenier, ticketed to Lacrosse,
Wash.
DR.. Penwarden, ticketed to Petrolia.
Woman. supposed TO be Penwarden $
wife.
]. IA. Brock. Brucefieid
O. b. Burwell, Port Huron.
Wilson Morton, Chicago.
FYfteen bodies remain unidentified. 1t
IL believed all the injured will recover.
Exposure to the raging blizzard un-5
doubtedly hastened the death or some
ff the seriously injured and caused the
aaath Of some of those who might nave
been saved if it had been only Dues
linn Of extracting them from the
Xr rac,sage. The dead bodies taken from
4ha wreck are frightfully mangled,
Some of them are almost beyond recog-
milton. Ea,vara
.,ovse,a Prescott, Ont; Miss Nelle
Ssa5das sarnia: Mr.. Burrell, London:
+ lrJicbnlas Jeffries, London; Mrs j. p.
Ysarnes. woodstock, Ont; Alexander
! Cameron. Petrolia; and Mr.. smith,
trainman. Sarnia.
s The injured:
T. Cuthbertson and wife Fort
Huron, Mich
Iau,es p. Ramblit, TORONTO.
T7lossie Cuthbertson. Port huron.
Mrs samuel Cummings, Port Huron.
Hattie Northry. Peterboro, Ont
Nellie Coutts, Chicago.
Era,,k %, Baker, London, ont.
~ II Morse, wife and three children
Earnia.
Thomas Coutts, Chicago.
George Stacey, Wanstead.
Tdward Deevans. Prescott, Ont.
T,r Basil Harvey, Chicago.
Mrs r MI, Stewart and child, osh-
kosh, Wis.
James Banes, Woodstock
Russell Quinn, Chicago.
Carl stewart, Oshkosh, VII
Beatrice Geddes, Sarnia.
T,otfie Lynch, Port Huron
John Bierd Chicago.
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Mrs w. Cott and Margaret Cott
london.
I. =. shawles, Strathroy, Ont.
70. Fl. Cole and wife, Flint. Mich.
R. K. Mcdonald, Strathroy.
Mrs. T. N. Barnes, Sarnia.
Annie Sinclair, Komoka, Ont.
Mrs. Pughley, London.
l or the trainnen, the fireman OF the
txpress was killed, Engineer Mckenzie
escaping. The engineer and fireman OF
the freight train are missing
Robert Jackson, Petrolia.
Hobarts Stewart, Oshkosh.
The accident is said to be due to the
failure of the operator to give orders
"a the express train to meet the freight
at the station.
one of the passengers describes the
accident as follows
we were running at about forty