Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-09-19
RAILWAY TRAINS MEET INTHE
NEW HAMPSHIRE MOUNTAINS.
MANY MORE ARE INJURED
Freight and Passenger Collide in Early
Misty Morning-Operator Makes
Fatal Mistake-Engineer Reverses
Engine and Jumps Before the
Crash.

White River Junction, Vt, Sept
ia fearful head-on collision be-
tween the south bound Quebec express
and north bound freight train on the
| Concord division of the Boston and
Maine railroad, occurred four miles
north of Canaan station early today
due to mistake in train despatcher's
orders. From demolished passenger
coach there were taken twenty-five
dead and dying persons, and twenty.
seven other passengers, most of them
seriously injured. Nearly all those
who were in the death car were re
turning from a fair at Sherbrooke
Quebec, sixty miles north
Train Numbers Confused.
The conductor of the freight train
was given to understand that he had
| plenty of time to reach a siding by the
night operator at Canaan station. re-
teiving, according to the superintendent
| OF the division, a copy of telegraph
order from the train dispatcher at
Concord which confused the train
! NUMBER 80 and "a.
The wreck occurred just after the
express had rounded into a straight
stretch of track, but owing to the early
morning mist neither engineer saw
the others headlight until too late.
List of the Dead.
The identified dead are as follows:
Timothy Shaughnessy, Castle Bar,
Que.
Mrs. Shaughnessy, Castle Bar, Que.
Miss Annie st. Pierre, Isle Verte,
Que.
Fred NJ. Phelps, Ochiltree, Tex.
Mrs. 4. E. Warren, Haverhill, Mass.
Mrs. F. G. Blake, South Corinth, VT.
Mrs. Margaret Largy, Manchester,
N. H.
Miss Barrett, Manchester, N. H.
Mrs. Philip Gagnon, Sherbrooke.
Miss Alvina Giron, Nashua.
Mrs. Webster. a dressmaker living
in Massachusetts.
j. l.. Congret, Somerville, Mass.
Infant child of Irving Clifford, Con-
cord, N. H.
Mrs. e. L. Briggs, West Canaan.
N. H.
John c. Duncan, Bethel VT.
Twenty-Five of the bodies were re-
moved to Concord during the day.
Many Are Injured.
The most seriously injured. who
were taken to the Margaret Hitch
cock hotel at Hanover, N H., include:
Saunders, Nashua, N. H.; legs
and arm injured.
Mrs. s. Saunders, Nashua: head and
back injured.
Mrs. c. N. Saunders, Nashua;
wounds on head.
Miss c. Saunders, Nashua: contus.
ions on face.
Miss d. Saunders, Nashua; Internal
injuries
Fred Saunders, Nashua; shoulders
injured.
Mrs. Hester Saunders, Brockton,
Mass: head and back injured.
Charles st. Pierre. Isle Verte.
Que; internal injuries.
Arthur Jacques, Millbury; internal
injuries.
E. A. Batchelder, Somersville:
ankle broken.
Philip Magnon, Sherbrooke; intern
al injuries.
John Barrett. Manchester N. H.;
head and breast injured.
Miss Abby Jansen Nashua: broken
frontal bone.
Due to Operators Mistake.
The order which Conductor Law.
renee of the freight train showed az
ter the accident distinctly states that
No. 30, instead of No. 81 was an hour
and ten minutes late. Conductor Law
renee believing that he had sufficient
time in the hour and ten minutes to
reach the side track at West Canaan,
four miles beyond, before No. so
reached il, ordered his train ahead.
The superintendent declared that the
accident was due to the mistake in
placing a cipher after the three in the
number OF the traia instead of a four
The morning was duh and misty i'm
the western New Hampshire noun
tains and the long freight train with
score of heavily laden cars numbered
up the long grade towad West Canaan
at the usual speed. On the other side
OF the curve moved the Quebec ex-
press, sliding down the single track
with its load of passenger cars and
the four heavy sleepers in the rear.
Engineers Reverse and Jump.
The freight train was on a straight
piece of track about mile in length
and the Quebec express had rounded
the curve into this stretch when the
two engineers saw the headlight of
the opposite train burst out of the
fog. Both engineers set their brakes
and then jumped while the two great
locomotives crashed into Each other
and locked in a firm embrace, rolled
into the ditch.
The baggage car in the rear was