The evening world., 1902-12-27
THIRTY DEAD IN BLAZING
WRECK OF FAST TRAIN.
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thrown m top of the hrstclass coach, instantly killing a great many and
|pinning about fifty other passengers in the debris.
THE screams, means and prayers of the injured we're heartrendins
One poor woman begged that her child be saved As sh" was dying. The
little thing was carefully taken from the wreck and will probably recover
The mother va arerward released and taken to the other car, but only to
"one woman died singing, Nearer, My God. to Thee, while another
died in her husbands arms. singing. Jesus, Lover of My Soul
THE trainmen, a well a every passenger. did all they could to relieve
the surenngs of tho victims"
The freight was under slow Roadway and was tt have taken the side
track at Wansead to allow the passenger train to pass. Apparently neither
engineer saw the danger ahead in time to avoid the accident. for the two
engines came together near the west switch with a fighuul crash, over
turning into the ditch.
The baggage and express cars telscoped into the smoker with appalling
results The wreck "a complete, and it is thought that hardly a single.
passenger in the smoker escaped injury The other cars of the passenger
train remained on the track. AS roon a the accident occurred word was
sent to his city and doctors we're soon on the seen The work of remov-
ing the dead and injured as then proceeded with. Among the known dead
are Engineer Gllhes, of sarnia. and the fireman of engine $50 of the express
RUNNING AT HIGH PEE
When the Pacific flyer left this city shortly after midnight 1t was speed
ing along at ahy miles an hour as it reached wanstead. No stop is made
by the express at this point and the engineer. intent o catching up with
his schedule, sen the train along at full Roadway.
AS he nearec the town he sighted the headlight of the fast freight
straight ahead and rushing toward him. He should have passed it at strath.
While he looked ahead he noticed that the freight "a o the same
track with the express. and Immediately he whistled down brakes and at
tempted to reverse his engine to avert a collision.
But while he tugged and strained the freight came laundering along, and
the two trains, still at high speed. crashed together.
Most of the passengers in the sleepers we're thrown from their berths.
and those who could scrambled out of the cars, thmy clad.
The weather was at zero point and haste was made to carry the injured
into the rear coaches. where they were cared for while news of the wreck
was telegraphed to this city,
DEAD ARE TO ONDOM
When the train bearing the dead, consisting of an engine, a passenger
coach, freight caboose and a Pullman coach. the blinds of the latter drawn.
reached this city and pulled up at the Grand Trunk freight sheds, a
CHASTITY sight wa presented. Down both sides of the aisle of the Pullman
battered bodies lay in blood and slence-old, middleaged and young;
mothers, fathers and little ones, alike victims of the terrible disaster.
There we're twenty-five bodies in the car. Some were crushed beyond
human resemblance, some were swollen and bruised and some lay with
mouths open Is If death came upon them in the midst Of their horror
stricken cries. Within the freight-house twenty-five coffin boxes were in
readiness.
All the undertakers in the city we're called into service, and Immediately
upon the arrival Of the train the work Of removal began.
The bodies yer taken from the IA through one Of the windows and
one Of the doors, and were carried on box-hds into the shed, where they
were ranged in a ow for identification. There were seventeen men, six
women we'll advanced in years, one young woman about twenty-five, and
one little eleven-year-old girl,
The faces were sc covered with blood that 1T seemed impossible ito iden-
tiv hon Several were recognized by their pocket papers, however, butt
there are still about ten who are rs yet unknown.