New-York tribune., 1904-09-01
THIRTEEN DEAD IN WRECK
CRASH on GRAND TRUNK.
Orders OuerIookcd, FrightfM Head
on Collision Results.
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Montreal. Aug. 31.-At least thirteen persons
were killed and more than twenty were injured,
some probably fatally. in a frightful head-on
collision on the Grand Trunk Railway near
Richmond, Quebec seventy-one miles east Of
Montreal at !: 80 o'clock this afternoon Nine
bodies of the dead have been recovered from the
wreckage and at least four still missing.
The victims include:
BLANcHETTE. J. b. member OF Parliament for St
BoWRING. FREDERICK South Durham. Quebec
DUBORD. ----, fifteen years Old Athabasca. quebec.
GAUDETTE. EPHRAIM. st. Theodore. Quebec.
HAcKETE = H. routing clerk. Canadian Express
MOUNTAIN. " +. traveller Montreal.
RICHARD A THEODORE. Lissar. Quebec.
SIMARD CHARLES 4. st Hyacinthe. quebec
Unidentified Man. aged forty-hye. Beloeil. Quebec
Among the injured are Thomas f. Feeney. cx-
press messenger. of Montreal; /. L. PayoH.
Claude Arsile and Emerson Fee. of st. Hya-
cinthe: Gustave Daigneault Salem. Mass; Allan
McNanus. Ulverton. quebec; Alexander Gauvit.
St. Theodore. Quebec; Frederick \. Nj. Gagnies
and j. A. Denaul:, Montreal: Archibald Walker,
Gore. Quebec; Colonel A. 81. Denis. ST. Hya-
cinthe; Ernest Richard, Lisgar. Quebec; Richard
Paquette and Paul Deguire Rougemont quebec:
Willis Upton ana Charles Gunter. Lisgar. Que
bee: Gordon Richmond and Albert Gunter, South
Durham. Quebec Joseph Trudeau, Upton, Que
bee; Felix Payette. track foreman. Grand Trunk
Railway Montreal: UIdeze Tousseau. St. Thco-
dore, and Fay Webb. mail clerk Richmond
The trains which came together were No =.
an express from Portland. due at Montreal at l
O'Clock this afternoon, and special excursion
train which left this ois-- at = O'Clock this morn
ing bound for the Sherbrooke Fair The crew
of the specia. train had received orders TO meet
No. Richmond. but both conductor and
engineer overlooked this fact. and when mile
Ia
the Portland train came into sight two hundred
yards away. The engineers OF both trains ap
piled the air brakes and reversed their engines.
but they had scarcely time 10 jump when the
locomotives came together with tremendous im-
pact Both boilers were torn from their fasten-
ings and rolled off their trucks at the side OF the
track. The baggage cars and smokers OF both
trains were broken to pieces. and II was these
in which the persons killed were rldiug. some
of the victims were almost beheadec. Ihe
bodies Of others were found with arms and legs
missing.
The Tescucrs were greatly retarded in their
work through fear that the boilers. from which
clouds Of steam were escaping, would explode
sent promptly from Sherbrooke, and doctors
and undertakers from Richmond were at the
scene OF the wreck in less than an hour. Ihe
more seriously injured were taken TO SherpTooke
Hospital, and those not so badly hurt Were
quartered by the company at Richmond hotels
Among the dead is J. b. Blanchette. member
of th. Dominion House for ST. Hyacnthe.
few minutes before the accident he LETT his sea;
in the rear coach Of the express, saying 10
Maurice Ioerrault "A member OF the Quebec Leg
islature, who a fellow passenger that he
would go into the smoker and enjoy Cigar.
Five minutes later MI. Perrault assisted Ia re-
covering his friends mutilated body from the
pile Of broken timbers and twisted iron.
The most graphic account OF what followed
1 ne collision is given by J. A. Denault q Mon
treal banker who seated in the smoker
Of The excursion train
when the shock came" he said, ! was hit
- and stunned.
rate everything for a moment appeared to me
black white and red. When l came to my
senses. appeared 10 lie lying underneath pile
Of kindling wood, from which could not re
lease myself The cries OF the wounded began
They were pitiable. felt something wet sat
,rating one leg Of my trousers, and for a mo-
UenC thought that ! had been badly wounded
Looking down. / that the body OF a man
was lying across my feet. He was groanlne-
soon he began TO cry out that he was injured,
2 nd I'm a minute or two that he was dying. Then
he was still. Soon those who were in the rear
carg of our train and the trainmen came ana
pulled him out from beneath me. He was dead
/ was lucky enough TO escape with only Few
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