Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-21
TRAIN WRECKED
Sunrise Express DeraiIed
Near Durham, N. H.
Siz Seriously Injured and
Many Others Hurt.
st. John Express Was Making Up Time
A Defective Rail.

Durham. y. H.. Jan. % A broker
'a'i WIS responsible, for = serious train
week on IN" Western division Of IN,
Boston e. Maine Railroad here t,day
Wien four ears Alta he'd to tho. "Sun.
:l@e express. the fastest train running
i"tWt"il tnr maritime provinces anC
i''Stnh. We're dc. allied and d+nnlisnr,
ana ii persons were injured or thi,
Iumpri sIx We're injured serionsjv
nd one Of them may die.
The seriously injured:
Alder. Hall. Portland. Me. seycrel,
injured intcrnally ANA may die.
Mis- Eeile Donald. Hampton. y. f.
shoulder dislorai"'l ana severe iniurie%
10 head. Is considered put Of danger.
''harl"S Dunn, Jr.. Portland. No
h"ad ana hin injured recovered suffi-
''i"ntfy 10 bc taken To Portland tonight
len q. l:oWdoin. courei porter o,
Pullman car; head ;tnt; shoulders bad
y cN1 by being thrown through Il cai
window.
John Denton, Pullman porter. con-
'uS0nS and internal injuries.
tnl.nnMn Armenian Ntman, said Ia
bt.l"m.; i'll Providence. L. body. nr,lis
Hi'" th"u@.lt To W. in1r?I:ailv injured
With the exception Of Nh Hall. it il
thought that al Of the above Will re-
cover.
bthere whose Injuries were 50 serious
rs To noceSSitate medical attendance.
wire:
G"""@" Reed, Island Falls. Me-: iniu
i"S 70 : :,lp ANA arm.
Mrs SIlnn y f,.,rI- Nat,. N,,.ly n,
head bruised ANA face injured.
Caleb Cuc, Eockport. y. t.: head
hart.
". J. Gnindle. Eangor. Me-; wounds
- head.
Ge"rg" Navanaugh. Harvard. Mass. ;
injuries 10 head.
Toe Mv(;innis. Boston; also injure
about head.
AIRS. .>len Howard. Fredericton. \.
-; arm fractured.
susie Swan. Franklin. Nc. scalp
Wounds end scl'ls on head
calrh Reed. Bangor. Me. cheek cut
ma back Injured.
Gyms Weeks. Lynn. Mass, head and
iare cut.
Miss Mary Mesh. ;prirohill. y. s..
head and face cIt. elbow bone cracked
Miss Hannah cox. Spri.'Chll. \. :
cut on head and onnlI lcrs. and bruised
Brakemam \. II. Johnson. Som"ryille
I!ass.. scalp w"lnd.
Miss Neva s Randlctt. Belfast. Me.
ntad ana fac" clli by class
Mis-. Mary O!:rien. Meth Glasgow
\. s dis lu,.:.t-d shoulder.
MISS ISABEL . Briyn, her sister. badly
bruised.
Miss Nellie smith. Bangor. Me. scalp
wounds and tacc ERASED.
l.. j. Thibault. Sion, ton, y. b.. ankl"
srraii:cd ana severe scalp wounds.
CaHt. Mulrahy, stcl:n:hii, Eretria. in
jurcd righ; foot.
Harry Ross. It2nGor. Me. head cut
ard bruised.
Hon. George =. HAYES. Syracuse. y.
T., nose cut and knee injured.
about = dozen others received cuts
;nG bruises or minor injuries from the
sudden STOPPING Of the train. The Sun
rise "X:lesS left Halifax. y. s., for
poSton. nv way Of s.. John. \. r.. at \
Orlnc!; este duy morning. and depart
cd froT -. john nj & o'clock last night.
The train is scheduled To arrive in
I'oyton ut 30 A. NJ. but owing to de
luyS III northern Maine. last night. il
Was Just before s O'Clock when the ex-
l.fnes passed through this town, this
morning. TIL" tram was then running
AT Il high speed in an effort to make NJ
~ much as POSSIBLE Of the lost time.
TIL" train consisted of Il locomotive.
hd,.,-nG. car. tWo pullmnn sleeping cars
W I'd three coaches. As tn" express was
passing through 4 stone Culvcrt q short
distance In TIC rear Of the New Hamp-
shire STATE College of Agriculture Il
hrol<"n rail was encountered. The To-
,omotiyc. baggage car ana one Pull
man passed ovcr without leaving the
rails. but The four rear cars jumped the
tracks. shot through the air and We're
thrown int" the stone culVert. Their,
were mnje than 100 passengers on
hoard TIVE train ana nearly All in the
d"rail"d cars We're bruised. The en-
sine, I escaped injury.
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