The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-01
NINE PERSONS KILLED: TWENTY.THREE INJURED
SHOCKING COLLISION ON GRAND
 TRUNK RAILROAD.

Excursion and Passenger Trains Crash
 Together Head-On-Crew of Former
 Said to be ResponsiBIe-NegIect
 Orders-Ensineers and Firemen Af-
 ter Reversing Their Engines Jump
 and Save Their Lives.
 Montreal, Aug. s1.-Nine people were killed and twenty-three others were in- jured in a head-on collision on the Grand Trunk railway near Richmond, Que, to-day. The trains involved were a special excursion from Montreal bound for Sherbroke and passenger train No. 5. running between Island Pond, Vt, ana Montreal. The collision it is claimed, was due to neglect of or ders on the part of train crew of the excursion train, which let Richmond without waiting the arrival of the pass enger train.
 The latest official list of dead and in jured is as follows:
 The dead: Fred Bowring, South Dur ham, yue,; T. H. Hackett, Montreal; unknown man of Belceil. Que; ". T. Mountain of Montreal, boy named Du- ford from Arthabaska; Ephriam Gau- dette of Acton, Que; J. B. Blanchet, M. lP., of St. Hyacinthe; Charles A. Sim ard, St Hyacinthe; A. Theodore Rich ard, Lisgar, Que.
 The injured: l.. T. Cayon, St. Hya- Ieinthe; Cloa Arsilla, St. Hyancnthe; Emerson Fee. St. Hyacinthe; Gustave Daigneault, Salem, Mass; Gordon Richmond, South Durham, Que; Joseph Trudeau, Upton, Que; Paul Deguire, Rougemont. Que: Albert Gunter, South Durham, Que; Charles Gunter, Lisgar, Que; Felix Payette, road foreman, Grand Trunk railway, Montreal; Uldeze Tousson, St. Theodore de Acton; Fay Webb, mail clerk, Richmond; Thomas E. Feeaney, messenger, Canadian Ex- press company. Montreal: Allan Me Manus. Ulverton, Que; Alex. Gauvit, St. Theodore de Acton: Edward NJ. Gagnon, Montreal; Arch Walker Gore Que; !. A. Denault, Montreal; Colonel A. St. Debis, St Hyacinthe; Recher Pa iquet, Rougemont, Que; Engineer Pa Equette, Rougemont; Willis Lipton, Lis gar, Que.
 The excursion train was running as 1.-the first section of the regular Grand Trunk Portland express. which usually crosses the Island Pond train at Rich 1mond and was running on it's time. This makes 1t all the more inexpiicable las to why Conductor Atkinson, in charge os the excursion train, did not wait to make the usual crossing. Atkin- .tson, who lives in Melbourne, right Iacross the river from where the wreck took place, has not been seen since the ] first few minutes after the wreck,
 The excursion train was made up of Iten coaches and a baggage car. On board were about 1000 persons bound flor the exhibition at Sherbrooke. The Island Pond train was made up of five coaches and baggage car and did not have a great number of people on board. The excursion train had but barely cleared the Richmond yard when rounding q curve it met the Island Pond train, running at a high rate of speed. Both engineers reversed and with their tirenaen jumped, escaping with only minor injuries. The shock of Ithe collision was plainly heard in Rich n1ond, more than a mile away. Both lenSines were locked firmly together. The baggage car of the excursion train was picked up and dropped on top of the car following. it, a smoker, and it Twas in these two cars that the greater number of fatalities occurred.