The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26
TELESCOPEO IN
BREVAL TUNNEL
Transatlantic Train Carrying
Many Americans Meets With
Disaster in France.
WRECK DUE TO NEGLIGENCE
RED SIGNAL WAS UP AT THE
ENTRANCE.

nantes, France, Sept. 5.-The TranS-At-
iantic train carrying first-class passengers
from Paris to Cherbourg, where they were
to embark on the White Star steamer Ad-
riatic. was telescoped today in the Bre-
val tunnel. Nineteen Of the persons were
injured. but none fatally. The names of
the injured are not Obtainable- Several
passengers suffer from broken limbs.
1t was miracle that no one was killed
The train taking passengers to Cherbourg
for embarkation on the North German
Lloyd steamer Crown Prince Wilhelm.
which was following the train having on
board the Adriatic passengers. proceeded
to her destination by another route
Due to Negligence.
The disaster is said to have been due
to negligence Of the crew of the train
carrying the transatlantic passengers as
no lights were burning on me rear end of
the train, and no tOrpedoes were placed
on the track behind it as required by the
regulations when a train halts i'm a tUn-
mel. This negligence caused another train
TO run into the passenger train bound
for Cherbourg
The train with Adriatic passengers left
Paris in two sections. The first contain
ing the Second-claSS baggage stODDed inst
beyond the BrevaI tunnel. Owing to an
accident to the locomotive. the second
section containing the first-class passen-
gers was stopped by signal when in the
middle of the tunnel.
keo signal Was Up.
The regular train from Rouen followed
the second section of the passenger train
for CherbOur2 and although there was a
red signal up at the entrance of the tun-
mel, IL was only reduced in speed and
entered while going at the rate Of TWEEN
ty-tive miles an hour. The collision fol-
lowed The train crashed into the rear
of the transatlantic train, causing a
horrible wreck. Tine locomotive of the
ROuen train completely telescOped the
rear coach of the transatlantic train
and in the smoke and darkness an awful
panic ensued. Nineteen injured persons
We're taken out of the wreckage, several
of them suffering from broken limbs, but
not one was fatally hurt.
Pinned In Wreckage.
An American girl who was going home
with her mother, was caught in the
wreckage and pinned down by some iron
work. Hours elapsed before the girl was
extricated from her painful position. Her
mother escaped uninjured. The Adriatic's
male passengers, after they had recover
ed from the panic following the collision,
went to work in aiding the rest of the
injured who were taken to the hospital
at Nantes and Bonnieras
Thanks TO the efforts of the project of
Nantes and the railroad authorities, a
new train was soon made up and the Ad-
riatics uninjured passengers proceeded 10
Cherbourg.
The officers of the railroad and the
" HilS Quar- Lille IN 1dElS were DeSleEeC
this afternoon with inquiries for details
All accounts agree that at the outside
not more than ten passengers on the spe-
cial were hurt, and that their injuries
were not great.
Steamship Passengers.
The only thing to be had at the office
of the steamship company was a list of
passengers in the coach that was tele-
scoped. This follows:
Mrs. Herbert H Barnes.
Miss Eleanore Redway-
Miss Grace Redway.
Samuel Baldwin and wife
L. A. Jones and wife.
Walter Phelps Dodge and wife.
Mrs. E. A. Kemph.
Harold w. Bell.
Mrs. f. A. Constable and daughter
Mrs. L. Harris and maid
Mrs. c. r. Shepherd and daughter
Harry w. Earne and wife.
n. h. Day and wife.
James Wilson and wife.
The collision was due to the negligence
of the crew of the special in failing to
place either lights or tOrpedOes on the
track behind the train as required by the
regulations when a train halts in a tun-
mel.