The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-16
MANY LIVES LOST.
tcontlnued from Third page.l

AANO AlAJ than fifty people. Shortly before the accident few of the men had gone back into the smoking car in the rear, leaving the women to get little sleep in the straight seats One of those who escaped said that as the train was rounding 8 curve some one in the front of the car began to sing, so that nearly every one was awake when the crash came.
 Those who were in the other cars recovered their dazed senses, jumped out to- the side of the track and hur- ried to the demolished passenger coach, where groans, cries and shrieks were rending the air.
 Fortunately with the engines off to one side, the wreckaga did not take fire and add further horror to the al- ready dreadful scene. The train hands, ably seconded by the passengers from the sleeping cars, groped their way among the ruins and began the work of rescue. The bodies of the dead were laid beside the track, quickly but ten derly, while the rescuers turned their attention to those who needed aid Great beams were lifted, pieces of joists were thrown aside and the bleeding and mangled forms were dragged out and laid on the backs of broken seats or upon blankets from the sleeping cars. Wounds were hasti- ly bound up and deep cuts staunched by strips of bedding from the sleepers The little band worked diligently and faithfully in the dawning light before the doctors came.
 The nelghborhood Is sparsely set | tied one, but the few farmers were easily aroused and lent every aid to l the work of succor
 In the meantime, the word had been dispatched to this place and to Con- cord and Hanover, and within an hour a large force of physicians were hur- rying 10 the scene.
 The accident was not without it's heroes, and one of these was FTank Ryan, brakeman on the express. Ryan was caught in the wreck and had an artery severed. He was unconscious for nearly fifteen minutes and when he regained his senses his first thought was of the Montreal "1yer," an express which he knew was. laundering down on the wreck with no brakeman in the rear to wave warning signal. In a few husky words Ryan told of the approaching danger ana the Montreal express was stopped only quarter of a mile from the rear of the wrecked train.
 The following statement was given out by the Boston and Maine railroad officials in this city;
 'The collision was evidently due to a misunderstanding of train orders. Train 261 Qrelght) engine GA, engineer D. P. shurtleff, conductor B, J. Law renee, due to leave Boston via Southern division at 7:35 pm. Saturday left Con- cord at 12.45 thls a, m, and arrived at Canaan, N. H., at 4:10 on time.
 Train 3O consisting of engine 7S0, engineer J. P. Callahan, conductor F. O. Brown, with baggage car. coach, smoker and sleeping car, left White River Junction for Boston at S;55 a. m, forty-flve minutes late.
 Train 34 co. V. passenger) left White River Junction at a. m, one hour and Ithirty-six minutes late. At East An dover, twenty-seven miles south of Ca- nAan, an order was sent 267 (and the same order { trains 30 and 34 at White River Junction) giving the former (267) forty minutes on the time of train 30 and thirty minutes on the time of train IS4, these orders being repeated back land completed in the usual manner.
 ''At Canaan, orders were sent 267 Iannulling former order and giving them one hour and ten minutes tn the time of 34.
 The same order was given to S4 at White River Junction, both were re- lpeated back to the dispatcher, and &C., cording 10 the records, exactly as sent, lalthough for some as yet unexplained treason, the order which was delivered the engineer and conductor of 9e77 at Canaan gave them one hour and ten minutes over train 30, which had not then arrived at Canaan. This order should have read No. 3f and accord ing to the dispatchers' record 1t was so sent and repeated by the Canaan operator This discrepancy can only be cleared by thorough investlga- ton, which will be made at once.
 "The accident occurred on a straight line about one mile south of West Ca- naan -four miles north of Canaan at 4:26 this a. m.
 Tt was very foggy morning and the enginemen were not much more lthan two hundred feet apart when they came In sight of each other. Both lwere running fast, the freight on a down grade of about fifty feet to the mile, The engine of the passenger train telesceped the baggage car and coach, which was occupied largely by French Canadians on their way to the mills at Manchester, Nashua, Lowell land Fall River. Occupants of the smoker were so far as we can al pres ent learn, not seriously injured, and those in the Pullman car suffered only from the shock.
 "Wrecking trains with full crews promptly started from Concord and White River Junction, together with an abundance of doctors, nurses, etc., from Concord and the track was cleared at o'clock this afternoon"
 The passengers on the Montreal ex. press also assisted fin the work of res cue and the care of the wounded
 Among the west Canaan farmers was Benjamin Briggs, who was one of the first at the scene, and two hours later he drew out the body of woman On turning up the face Mir. Briggs looked into the features of his mother and, almost collapsed from grief. Mrs