Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-02-04
OVER THE BANK.
Interco!onial Express Wrecked
at Hunters Crossing, MS.
Two Dead--0ne Man Fatally Hurt
rs Others Injured.
Express Was En- Route to Boston
from Halifax.

tiers Crossing, 40 miles from Halifax,
at 10 o'clock, this morning Practically
| every one of the 80 passengers wera
hurt, most of them only slightly so,
| besides more or less serious injuries
| were sustained by 10 members Of the
train crew.
| The names of the dead and seriously
injured is rs follows:
! The dead:
| Mrs. John Classy, Halifax.
| Conductor Robert Duncan.
! The injured:
| L. J. Hudd, c. p. +. T.. car inspec-
| tor, Halifax, seriously injured.
| o. C. Campbell and Mrs. Campbell,
Halifax slightly injured
| Miss Bently, Halifax, slightly in
| jured.
! G. w. Marsh, Toronto, injured about
head.
| Miss Vance, Halifax, slightly injured
| Mr.. Halstead. residence unknown,
badly injured about head.
| Mrs. a. f. Pyche bound to Victoria,
3. e., seriously injured.
| A. 2. Barton, ST. John, ". B., slight
| ly injured.
| j. P. Frawley, st. John. slightly in
| jured.
F. a. Eustin, st. John, express mes
scnger, leg broken.
! An Armenian peddler. name I'M
| known, badly, probably fatally injured.
| H. Hilchey, Stewincke, head cut.
| Theodore Appleby, news agent, head
and shoulder injured.
| Peter Kelley, brakeman, face cut and
| leg injured.
George Bcssell, ST. John, ribs brok-
en-.
| john Reford. HalifoX, head cut.
| J. s. Mcdonald, Halifax, head and
shoulder cut.
NJ. Utter, d London, Eng, perfumery
| traveller. cut about head; and two
Italians, one with a broken rib and
another with & scalp wound.
| j. p Blair, Truro. cut about the
head, and suffering from loss of blood.
| The train left Halifax about five
minutes late. II consisted of an Inter-
colonial locomotive and five passenger
coaches, IL small car and baggage
car. all owned by the Canadian Pacific
Railroad. Conductor Robert Duncan,
one OF the oldset employees of the In
| tercolonial Railroad, was in charge Of
! the train.
The express, which does not stop at
! Milford, had just passed the station
Il few minutes before 10 o'clock, when
| without any warning, all the cars left
| the iron and plunged down an en-
| bankmont. The locomotive did not
leave the rails, the couplings having
| broken when the forward car left the
| track.
| All the passengers and train hands
in the cars were thrown violently from
their seats and many were badly in
iurcd as some of the cars turned over
lii their descent. Among these injured
was Conductor Duncan.
| Great confusion prevailed ana it re-
quired an hour before all the injured
had been taken from beneath the
,,reckacc. Persons living in the vicin
ity of the accident assisted those who
escaped serious injury and everything
| possible was done TO relieve the suffer-
ing of those taken from the wreck.
The cars in crashing down the cm-
| bankment. carried away the telegraph
| lines and it was impossible to commun-
icate directly by wire with Halifax.
| The engineer of the locomotive drove
| his engine at full speed to Shubena-
| cede, the neares. telegraph station
which il; five miles north of the scene
| Of the wreck and the place where the
| first stop vas to have been made after
passing Milford. From Shubenaccdie
| notifications of the disaster was wired
to this city.
| Information was also sent to Truro.
division headquarters, and to MOncton,
| the principal headquarters Of the In
! tercolonial Railroad. From Moncton
orders We're sent to both Halifax and
Truro to send wrecking trains and to
transfer the injured to the hospital at
| Halifax. All the doctors in Shubena-
| cedie were taken to the scene OF the
| accident by the locomotive and at
noon relief train was made up and
started for this city with the injured
| passenger; and train hands.
| Mrs. John Classy, wife of the junior
partner of the firm of Kelley &; Glas-
soy OF Halifax, was killed. Mrs. Glas-
sey was on her way to Truro, to visit
relatives Her body was found pinned
| beneath q pile Of wreckage and it is
thought that death was instantaneous.
a train bearing the body Of Mrs.
| Classy, who was killed in the wreck.
and ten Of the persons most badly in
jured. arrived, tonight. from the
wreck scene where the track has been
| reopencd for traffic and broken tele-
graph wires restored.
| The injured were conveyed to hos
pitfalls. Robert Duncan, the conductor
of the Inflated train, fingered between
| life and death with head crushed, leg
| broken and otherwise injured, and
| died at midnight. He had been
running between Halifax and Mon
! treal for so years and up to the
time of leaving Halifax at the usual
| hour. today. could boast of a long ca
reer unmarried by a single accident.
The other persons whose condition
! is grave. is an Italian peddler. who was
| in The second-class car. Beside the con-
ductor and the peddler. Baggagemaster
]. E. Blair is in a critical condition,
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