Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-09-21
WRECK
KILLS "a
QUEBEC EXPRESS COL
LIDES WITH FREIGHT.
FOUR NILES Morris oF CANAAN.
STATION ~ NEW HANP-
SHIRE.

White River Junction. VI. septls
a fearful head-on collision between
the s0uthbouaa Quebec express aBd =
nurthbound freiKht train % The Con
cord dirision x the Boston q Mains
Z railway Occurred four miles north %
Canaan station early yesterday. due 70
mistake in train dispatcher's orders.
and fruEn . demolished passenger
coach there Nere taken ouI - dead
and dying and - other passengers.
most - them serioufly wounded.
4 Nearly al q those who Were Ia tie
death car were returning from q fair
q. sherbT0oke. Quebec. 80 uliies
north
The conductor - the fYe3ght train
was given Ia understand that be had
plenty - time 90 reach a siding b.
he night operator az Canaan. receiy-
nag. according 10 the superintendent
( q the division. copy ~ a telegraph
order froU the train dispatcher e.
. Concord. which confused the trains
numbers So and So
TIE wreck Occurred fast after the
express had rounded into strairhr
stretch ~ track bur owing to the
early morning mist uetthar engineer
sas TIE others headlight until ID vac
too late Those ldsnuaed up to C
4 O'Clock sunday night were as follows
LIST o. TIRE Cead.
Timothy shaughnessy. Castle bar.
Quebec
Nrs. shaughnessy.
Miss Anna 81 Pierre. Isle yerte
Quebec
PRED - Pefts OchHtree. Texas.
Mr. A r Warren. HaverhW Mass
Mrs r c. Blake. South Coruth. VI
Airs Margaret Larry. Manchester
y n.
Miss Barrett. Manchester.
Mrs Philip Gagon. sherbrooke.
Quebec.
Miss Alvina Garon. Nassau.
Mrs. Webster a dressmaker living
in Massachusetts,
J. J. COncroJh. somerviIIe. Mass.
Infant child Of Irving CLIFFORD. Con
cord.
Nrs Z T Briggs. West Canaan. y
II
John G. Duncan Bethel. VI
The unidentified include q boy
years Of age and a man a. years old
q woman o. 81 years. another q IS.
a man u 50 years and four others
Twenty-tgo 81 the bodies were re-
moved 60 Concord during the night
- - A. -
The passenger train had left here
bound for Concord about an hour late
The track 20 the south Is a single one
90 Franklin. SO miles distant. with 9
few sidiugs. q abouuds ia curves
while the greatest pau ~ t from
Canaan is down grade The freight
train pulled out % a siding some
miles 20 the south and started % the
track for this place a. 4 O'Clock
The train Dispatcher sheet 81 Con
cord Is declared 10 show that the
freight crew disobeyed orders "a do
.ng So There are no signals on the
raad and The trains are directed from
station % station Going north Ii IS
long straight track from Canaan
Co The curve where fhe accident hap
pcned and the freight vas making
good time when she passenger train
came around the curve % is esiI-
mated both trains were going a.
speed q from So 70 g. miles an hour
There vas time O. pat OF the brakes
and both engine creEs Jumped an6
F escaped injurg
F Early Ia the afternoon. although -
Of the 80 freight cars which had CON
F posed that train we're deralied. and
E the track was torn up for a quarter
F oi a mile. the work o. rescue had been
E completed. and O. became known that
F the number 81 dead vas "a. Twenty
tWo % them were taken by train o.
E Concord. ana TAO were sent 10 this
place
{ Before fhe removal q the bodies Il
had been Identified
THREE HUNDRED LIVES LOST.