The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-09-19
Is DIE IN A WRECK
Excursion Train on the Concord
Division Of the Boston o Maine
Railroad Crashes Into . Freight
With Terrible Results.

White River Junction, VI, Special
A fearful head-on collision between
the southbound Quebec express and q
northbound freight train on the Con
ffHdrdiEi,siQp. of the Boston l. Maine
station early Sunday, due TO mis-
take in train dispaieher's orders anu
from a demolished passenger coach
there were taken "A dead and dying
and y other passengers, most OF
them seriously wounded. Nearly All
those who were in the death car were
returning from fair at Sherhrooke,
Quebec. I60 miles north.
The conductor of the freight tram
vas gwen TO understand that he had
pleniv of time TO reach SIDING by
| the night operator at Canaan s'a-
ton. receiving, according to the su-
perintendent of the division, a copy
of the telegraph order from the train
| disyatcLer at Concord which confus-
ed the train Nos. 80 and "a. The
! wreck occurred just after the express
| had rounded into a straight stretch
cf track. but owing TO the early morn
ing mist neither engineer saw ths
others Lead light until it was toe
late.
The List of the Dead.
Those identified up to e O'Clock a
night were as follows:
Timothy Shaughnessey, Castle Bar
Quebec.
Mrs. Shaughnessey.
Miss Annie St. Pierre, Verte, Que
bee
Fred NJ. Phelps, Ocbiltree, Texas:
Mrs. A. E. Warren, Haverhll
Mass.
Mrs. F. C. Blake, South Corintl
VT.
Mrs. Maragret Largy, Mancheste
n. H.
Mrs. Philip Gagnon, Sherbrooke.
Miss Barrett, Manchester, n. III.
: Miss Alvira Giron, Nashua.
, Mrs. Webster. a dressmaker livir
. | in Massachusetts,.
J. l.. Conron, Somerville, Mass.
Infant child of Irving Clifford, Coz
+ cord, n. H.
). Mrs. E. L. Briggs, West Canaa
John G.. Duncan, DerneI,
The unidentified include boy
years old, a man 40 years old, W
man Of 80 years, man of 30, al
+ four others.
- Those Seriously Injured.
! The most seriously injured, W
were taken to the Margaret Hltc
cock Hospital at Hanover, n. H.,
;, cludes an unknown boy with both le
broken, arm torn out and head
iured, dying. The other known
jured are: Mrs. S. Saunders, he
and back injured; Mrs. c. n. Sa,
au ders, Nashua, wounds on head; NJ
a C. Saunders, Nashua, eontusions
:, face; Miss D. Saunders, Nashua,
ternal injuries; Fred Saunders, Ma
u. ua, shoulder injured; Mrs. Hes
OF Saunders, Brocton. Mass, head
III. back injured; Charles st. Pierre i
nj verte, Que, internal injuries: Art
,os Jacques, Millbury, internal injuri
q" E. A. Batchelder, Somerville, an
az broken; Philip Gagnon Sherbroc
10 internal injuries; John Barrett, N
tG rd- chester, n. H, head and breast
th' jured; Miss Abby Jansen, Nasl
ION broken frontal bone.
by The soptbhound train was made
TX at Sherbrooke, where it picked
the two sleepers from Quebec and
on more on the way down. 1t cons
at ed Of the baggage car, passel
t" coach and smoking ear in that or
FOR with the sleepers in the rear.
re- train left White River junction
$. $50 a. m., 40 minutes late and
.u lowed 90 minutes later by the !
49, ,s treal express over the Central
'nn mont. The Quebec express Is kn
he as No. 80 and the Montreal tral
on.l No. "a.
QUO Qua Meantime a northbound FRI
sa ~ train known as No. 267, had ar
,tn.J at Canaan, Is miles down the
I'D at 4:10 a. m, on time. Accol
I anJ to W. R. Ray, Jr., division sup
al" "h tendent, J. r. Crowley, the
o' train dispatcher at Concord, sc
dispatch to John Greeley, the
operator at Canaan that No. "a
OUT. one hour and 10 minutes late.
IA order which Conductor Lawrent
ex;co the freight train, showed afte
accident distinctly states that
a'io" 80 instead of No. "a was an
the and 10 minutes late. Conc
atino, Lawrence, believing thai he ha'
IN of fcient time in the hour ana tef
bola utes to reach the sidetraek at
Canaan, four miles beyond,
L, naine No. 80 reached it, ordered his
.rship. an anes a. ane;dsnt was due to I'll
!, Iol- take in placing a cipher aft
amber | ;nnta.d - of four ;,