Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-01-05

graph operators error in delivering a
train order. The two Pullman sleep
ers remained on the track and were
converted into temporary hospitals.
In these the wounded were placed.
The Dead.
Alex. Stewart and Mrs. Stewart, Pc
trOlia, Ont.
A. Ricketts,, Sarnia Tunnel.
J. GiIIies, Sarnia Tunnel.
Mrs. Trotter, Petrolia.
H. B. Lawrence, Watford, Ont.
?. S. Freeman, Oil Springs, or Hen
sail
Nicholas Jeffrey, London.
Glen Roaley, Port Huron, Mich.
Guy De Pennier, La Crosse, Wash
ington.
DR.. and Mrs. Pennwarden, Oil
Springs, Mich,
J. H. Brock, Bruceield.
O. B. BurwelI. Port Huron, Mich.
Wilson Morton, Chicago.
Miss Nellie Geddes, Sarnia, Ont.
Alex. b. Cameron, PetrO1ia, Ont.
Edward Boyce died in London hos
pital.
Smith, trainman.
Miss Lottie Lynch, Port Huron, died
in London hospital.
Ed Debaus, Prescott, Ont, died in
London hospital.
Mrs. J. B. Barnes, Woodstock, Ont.
Robert Stevenson, Wyoming.
Archie Douglas, Alvinston Col.
Mrs. Rodley, Port Huron.
George BurkholdCr, Sarnia.
William John Lucas, StrathrOy, Ont.
Violet Brock, aged II, Chicago.
Injured.
Alex NJ Stewart, Chicago.
Mrs. J. J. Cuthbertson, Port HUI
ron, Mich.
James J. Ramplin, Toronto.
Mrs. Samuel Cummings, Port Huron.
James r. Matte, North PetersbOro.
Mrs Cott, Chicago.
Frank E. Baker, London.
w. NJ. Morris, wife and child, Sar-
MIA
Thomas Cote, London.
George Stacey, Wanstead.
DR.. Basil Harvey Chicago.
Mrs. J. M. Stewart and two children,
Oshkosh, Wis.
Russell Quinn, Chicago.
James Barnes, Woodstock, Ont.
Beatrice Geddes, Sarnia, Ont.
J. J. Cuthbertson, Port Huron.
John Bird, Chicago.
J. A. Lamont, Wyoming, Ont.
Mrs. ". Colt and daughter, London.
J. Shawlock, Strathroy.
w. H. Cole and wife, Flint, Mich.
R. K. Mcdonald, Strathroy.
Mrs. I. n. Byrnes, Sarnia.
Annie Sinclair Kokoma, Ont.
Miss Flossie Cuthbertson, Port
Huron.
Mrs. Pugsley, London.
r. Jackson, PetrOlia, Ont.
The train was crowded with people
returning from holiday trips. The ex-
press was running fully SO miles an
hour through blizzard when at the
Wanstead siding the headlight Of the
freight engine doomed up through the
snow. 1t was impossible to see 100
feet ahead because Of the snow and
the trains crashed together almost
before the engine crews realized a col
lision was imminent. The impact
threw the engines from the track. The
rear of the baggage car was driven
into the coach three-fOurths OF it's
length and Immediately a score of the
occupants were killed and two score
more pinned down in the wreckage. A
little fame broke out but the unin-
jured passengers eXtinguished it with
snow and then turned their attention
to the work of rescue. The bitter cold
wind and snow added to the suffering
of the injured who were taken from
the wreck and placed in the Pullman
cars and given all attention possible.
Surgeons arrived on special trains
and took charge Of the wounded peo-
pie. AS soon as all the dead and in
jured were removed from the wreck
they were brought to London. Here
the injured were taken to the hos
pitfalls. The dead were placed in cot
fins in the train shed and then re
moved to the morgue where all but
one were identified.
Conductor McAuliffe of the express
said yesterday that the freight crew
had opened the Wanstead switch and
the train had started to move into it