Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-09-16
misunderstanding of Orders
Responsible for FdghtfuI
Head-on Collision on Boston
and Maine in Vermont.
VICTIMS CRUSHED TO
DEATH IN FRAlL COACH
Flying Express DaShes Into
Heavy Freight on Straight
Track; Mist Hides Headlight
of III Fated Train.

Nnlte River junction, W., sept. 10.
AT least twenty-five people were
killed in a frightful head-on collision
between the southbound Quebec ex-
press and a nOrthbound freight train
on the Concord division of the Boston
and Maine railroad early today. The
accident occurred about four miles
north of Canaan station, and was due
to mistake in the train dispatcher's
orders.
From one Of the demolished coaches
was taken out twenty-five dead and
dying passengers. while twenty-seven
other persons are-more or less seri
ously injured. Nearly all of those in
the death car were returning from
a fair at Sherbrooke. Quebec. sixty
miles north of the scene of the dis
aster.
The conductor of the freight train
had been given to understand that he
had plenty OF time TO reach siae-
track where he was to pass
senger train. The misunderstanding
was caused by the night operator at
Canaan, according to a statement of
the division superintendent a copy of
telegraph order from the dispatcher
at Concord, in which the operator
confused the train number 80 and "a.
The wreck occurred just after the
express train had rounded curve
onto the straight track. Owing to the
gineers saw the headlight of the
other until II was too late.
The Identified Dead.
Those identified up to o'clock to-
night are:
TIMOTHY sHAUGNEssY, Castle
Bar. Quebec.
MRS. SHAUGHNESSY.
MISS ANNA ST. PIERRE, Isle
Verte. Quebec.
FRED NJ. PELL, Ochiltree. Tex.
MRS. A. f. WARREN, Haverhifl.
MRS. F. c. BLAKE, south Co
rinth, VT.
MRS MARGARET LARGY. Man
chester N. II.
MISS BARRETT. Manchester, n. H
MRS. PHILLIP GAGON, Sher-
MISS ALvINA GIRoN, Nassau.
MRS. WEBSTER, dressmaker, liv-
ing in Massachusetts.
J. |. coNGRoTH. sommerville'
Mass.
INFANT CHILD of Irving clifford.
Concord. n H;,oos II; ,.. canan
JOHN q. DUNCAN. Bethel. VT.
The Unidentified Dead.
The unidentified dead include by
4 years old: a man, 40 years old;
woman, so years old; a woman nf
hb. and a man of So. Four ather bC 4
les are so badly mutilated as to reno }r
it Impossible. % estimate their age.
The Injured. Agol
The most seriously injured were {
taken to the Margaret Hitchcock
hospital at Hanover, N. III, Among
the victims taken TO the hospital are
an unknown boy With both legs pro
ken. one arm wrenched from it, |
socket. and badly injured about the |
head, removed from the wreckage In /
dying condition. The names of the /
injured as far as can be ascertained.
are:
Samuel saunders. Nassau. n. H.; !
legs and arm injured.
Mrs. $. Saunders. Nassau. head and
back injured.
Mrs. c. NJ Saunders. Nassau; two
wounds on head.
Miss ID. Saunders Nassau; internal
ininries.
Miss c. Saunders. Nassau. confusion
of face.
Fred Saunders, Nassau; shoulder in
Miss Hester Saunders. Brauton.
Mass: head and back injured.
Charles ST. Pierre. Isle Nerta, Que
bee: internal injuries. -
r. A. BatcheIder. Sommerville,
Mass: ankle broken.
Philip Gagnen. Sherbrooke. que
bee: Internal injuries.
John Barrett. Manchester. y. H..
head and breast Injured.
Miss A. Jansen. Nassau; broken
frontal bone.
The southbound train was made 40
az Sherbrooke. Quebec. last evening,
where It picked np two sleepers from
the city OF Quebec and two more on {
the way south n consisted OF bag
gage car. passenger coach and smok-
ing car Ia that order. with the four I
sleepers attached TO the rear. Tne
train left White River Junction this
morning at 3.5O. forty minutes late, {
and was followed twenty minutes later ,
by the Montreal express over the Cen I
iral Vermont railroad. The quebec
train Is known a. No. 30 and the Mon q
ireal train a. No. -. In the mean q
lime the northbound train. known as Z
last freight No. 2s7. had arrived AZ [
Canaan. eighteen miles down the line
lt 4:1o on time. Accordingly TO DiNl- !.
sion superintendent W. r. Ray. J. X
Crowley. night train dispatcher az 4
Concord. sent a dispatch 20 John ?
Greeley. night operator that No. -
vas an hour and ten minutes late-a '
The order which Conductor Lawrence
q the freight showed after ths acci- -
lent distinctly states that No 30 IN
,iead Of No "a was an hour and ten
minutes lateu| Conductor Lawrence.
believing he had sufficient time IN
ne hour and ten minutes 10 reach q