Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-30
Cars Telesc oped and Overturned
Imprisoning the Occupants.
ASSISTANCE IS SENT FROM LONDON
Wrecked Cars Take Fire and Only Ex-
tinguished by Heroic Efforts of In
Injured Observation-Disclosures Suffer
From Wounds and Severe Cold.

collision occurred last night between
q westbound passenger and an east
bound freight on the Grand Trunk
railroad at Wanstead Station, on the
Sarnia branch, and according to the
latest reports thirty-seven persons
were killed and thirty-eight injured
The passenger train was running at
high rate of speed. The freight was
under slow Roadway and was to have
taken the switch at Wenstead to allow
the passenger to pass.
Did Not See Danger.
Apparently neither engineer saw the
danger in time to avert the accident
for the engines came together with
frightful crash, overturning into the
ditch
Cars TeIescoped.
The baggage and express cars tele-
,scoped into the smoker with appalling
results. The wreck was complete and
1t is thought that hardly a single pas
senger in the smoker escaped injury.
The other cars of the passenger re-
mained on the track.
Help Arrives.
w d was quickly sent to the this
city and doctors were soon on the
scene The work of removing the
dead and injured then proceeded.
The Dead.
Among the known dead are:
EDWARD BOYSE, of Prescott, Ont.
MISS NELLIE GEDDES, of Sarnia.
Mr.. BURRELL, of London.
NICHOLAS JEFFRIES, of London.
MRS. j. b. BARNES, of Woodstock,
Ontario
MR.. SMITH, a trainman of Sarnia.
EDWARD DEBEAN.
MR. and MRS. ALEXANDER
STEWART, Petrolis, Ont.
A RICKETTS,, Sarnia Tunnel, fire
man.
j. GILES, Sarnia Tunnel, engineer.
MRS TROTTER, Petrolis.
MR.. LAWRENCE, Waterford, Ont.
f. S. FREEMAN, Oil Springs, Ont.
MR.. JEFFREY. London.
GLEN PODLEY, Port Huron Mich.
x. GAY, Debenira, Ticketed to La
Crosse, Washington.
DIR. PENWARDEN, ticketed to Pc
trolls
A WOMAN, supposed to be Pen
wardens wife.
j. H. BROCK, Brucefield
o. b. BURWELL, Port Huron.
WILSON MORTON, Chicago.
FIFTEEN BODIES, UNIDENTI-.
FLED.
The Injured.
The injured are:
Alexander M. Stewart of Wingham,
Ont.
j. j. Cuthbertson and wife, of Port
huron, Mich.
Flossie Cuthbertson of Port Huron
Jas. P. Ramblin, of Toronto
Mrs. Samuel Cummings, of Port HUI
ron.
Hattie Nothri, of Peterboro, Ont.
Nellie Coutts, of Chicago.
Frank E. Baker, of London, Ont.
w. N. Morse, wife and three chill
dren of Sarnia.
Thomas Coutts Of Chicago.
Geo. Stacey, of Wanstead.
Edward Deeyens, of Prescott, Ont.
DR.. Basil Harvey, of Chicago.
Mrs. j. M. Stewart and child, of Osh
kosh.
James Banes, of Woodstock.
Russell Quinn, of Chicago.
Carl Stewart, of Oshkosh.
Beatrice Geddes, of Sarnia.
Lottie Lynch, of Port Huron.
John Bierd, of Chicago.
Albert Limont, of Wyoming, Ont.
Mrs. w. Colt and Margaret Colt, c
u London.
j. F. Shawles, of Strathroy, Ont.
w. H. Cole and wife, of Flint, Micl
B. K Mcdonald, of Strathroy.
Mrs. T. N. Byrnes, of Sarnia.
Anna Sinclair of Komoka, Ont.
Mrs. Pughsley, of London.
Robert Jackson of Petrolia.
Robert Stewart of Oshkosh.
IOf the trainmen, the fireman of I'll
express was killed, Engineer McKe
zie, escaping. The engineer and fir
man of the freight train are missing.
The Inflated express consisted
two baggage cars, a smoker, two fir
class coaches and two Pullmans. I'll