The Penn's Grove record., 1907-09-20
ON COLLISION
SPLITS CROWDED TRAIN
Quebec Express Wrecked Near
Canaan Station, N. H.
so KILLED AND WOUNDED
Night Operator, Who Became Con-
fused and Wrote "No. 80" in
Place of mo. 81" Blamed For
thc Disaster,

TIC DlSdStets
White River Junction, Vt.-Plung-
.ng into each other at forty miles an
hour, the Boston and Maine Rail
roads Quebec express and a freight
rain at daybreak met in a crash that
killed twenty-five persons and injured
more than thirty. Twenty-seven of
The wounded were in such dangerous
condition that they were rushed to
he hospital at Hanover after being
Drought to this town. Many OF those
killed were women and several were
children. The express was running
south with a full load of holiday
makers returning from a fair in Sher-
brooke, Quebec. Most of the victims
were Americans, a few being Can
adams on their way to points in this
State and New Hampshire. None
had a chance of escape. The head
On collision drove the baggage a
IF the express back through a pas
senger coach carrying half q hundred
persons.
Most shocking of all the tragedies
was that in which Benjamin Briggs,
who has a prosperous farm near West
Canaan, was an actor. Briggs was
one of the first of the farmers to go
to the rescue. He helped to take sey-
eral bodies and half a dozen injured
persons out of the wreck in the first
two hours he was on the spot. Then
he lifted from under a pile of timbers
the body of a woman. AS he turned
the body to get a better hold he found
himself looking into the dead face Of
his mother. Mrs. Briggs had been
visiting friends north of this town and
was going to Boston. Her son, when
he Joined the rescuers, did not know
she had travelled as a passenger on
the wrecked train. When he recog-
nized her he swooned with her body
in his arms.
The killed are: Miss Barrett, Man
chester; Mrs. c. f. Blake, South Cor.
NTH, VT; Mrs. E. T. Briggs, West Ca.
man, N. H; Mrs. Adolph Boisvert.
Concord, N. H.; Richard F. Clarkson.
Lebanon, N. H.; ]. L. Congdon, Som.
crville, Mass; John G. Duncan, Beth
ell, VT; Mrs. Philip Gagnon, Sher.
brooke; Clifford, infant child of Irv-
ing Clifford, Concord, N. f.; Miss AL
VIVA Giron, Nashua; Fred M. Phelps.
Ochiltree, Texas; Austin Roger, Man.
chester, n. H.; Timothy Shaughnessy,
Castle Bar, Quebec; Mrs. Shaughnes.
sy; George l.. Southwick, No. 6 Lin
den street, Worcester; Mrs. Annie St
Pierre, Isle Ferre, Quebec; Mrs. A. E
Warren, Hayerhill, Mass; Mrs. Webs.
ter, a dressmaker living in Massachu.
sets.
There arc seven bodies unidenti
fed.
The injured are:
John Barrett, Manchester, n. H;
head and breast injured; E. A. Batch
elder, Somerville; ankle broken;
William Cunningham, Hamilton,
Mass: back and chest injured; Mrs.
c. A. Dewey, Manchester; right side
injured; Philip Gagnon, S~herbrooke;
internal injuries; Arthur Jacques.
Millbury, internal injuries; Miss Jen.
ME jameson, Nashua; hip %wrenched;
Hiss Abby Janson, Nashua; broken
frontal bone; Miss Della Moran. Man.
chester, n. H; bruised
Moran, Nashua; wrist bruised; Mrs.
+OAe @No0Luo3 NOlSuoolOA VI ASdu,
Miss Juno Moves, North Somerset.
Vt; head and back injured; Miss
Rosa Reagan, Manchester; bruised
face; Frank Ryan, brakeman, White
River Junction; right arm bruised
and leg cut; S. Saunders, Nashua, N
left leg and wrist injured; Mrs.
S. Saunders, Nashua; head and back
injured; Mrs G. N. Saunders
Nashua, N. H.; scalp wounds; Miss
{. Saunders, Nashua; Commissions on
face: Miss D. Saunders, Nashua; in,
ternal injuries; Fred Saunders.
Nashua, shoulders injured; Mrs. Hes
ter Saunders. Brockton, Mass; head
and back injured; Charles st. Pierre.
Isle Verte, Quebec; internal injuries;
Miss Ella Vintumen, Lisbon, N. H.;
clavical bone broken; three children
cut and bruised bot seriously.