Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-09-16
ADDITIONAL
OVER A SCORE WERE
KILLED IN A WRECK

White River Junction, VT, Sept is.
"A fearful head-on collision between
the south bound Quebec express and
a north bound freight train on the
Concord division of the Boston &
Maine railroad occurred four miles
north of Canaan Station early today.
due 10 a mistake in train dispatchers'
orders, and from a demolished pas
senger coach there were taken out
twenty-four dead and dying and TWEEN
ty-seven other passengers, most OF
them seriously injured Nearly all of
those who we're in the car were re
turning from a fair at Sherbrooke.
| Quebec.
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
receiving. according to the superin-
tendent of the division, a copy of a
telegraph order from the train dis
patcher at Concord. which confused
the train numbers 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 other headlight until too late.
The dead identified up to tonight
were as follows:
Mrs. Shaughnessy.
Miss Annie St Pierre. Isle verte.
Quebec.
Fred NJ. Phelps, Oci1ltree, Texas.
Mrs. A. +. Warren, Haverhill. Mass.
Mrs. F. o. Blake. South Corinth. VT
Mrs. Margaret Largy, Manchester,
n. II.
Miss Barrett, Manchester. N. H.
Mrs. Philip GagnOn. SherbTOOke.
Miss Alvina Goron, Nashua.
Mrs. Webster, a dressmaker living
in Massachusetts,.
J. l.. Congrot, Somerville. Mass.
Infant child of Irving Clifford. Con
cord. y. H.
Mrs. f. L. Briggs. West Canaan, n.
H.
John c. Duncan. Methel. VT.
The unidentified include boy |
years old. a man forty years old. a |
woman thirty years old. a man thirty |
five years old. a man fifty-five years |
old, man thirty-five years old. and |
four others
Twenty-Five OF the bodies we're re-
lAAONth " NhAANDlu huNinE AllE udNs
The most seriously injured. who /
we're taken to the Margaret Hitch
cock Hospital at HanoYer.-N H.
-. q, -I-,s,frf.d. Srssr
: $3.50. is0tfIIu TIN was rrTrSIc up
1t Sherbrooke last evening, where it
picked up sleepers from Quebec and
Two more on the way down. II con-
sisted of the baggage car, passenger
coach and smoking car in that order,
with the sleepers in the rear.
The train left White River Junction
at $3.50 today, forty minutes late, and
was followed twenty minutes later by
The Montreal Express over the Cen
ral Vermont railroad The Quebec
train is known as No. 80 and the /
Montreal train as No. "a
In the meantime the north bound |
train. known as No. 267. had arrived
at Canaan, eighteen miles down the
road, at 4:10 a. m, on time, according /
to the division superintendent w. r. /
Wray. Jr. J. r. Crowley. the night /
train dispatcher at Concord. sent a /
dispatch TO John VI. Greeley. the night /
operator at Canaan. that No. "a was /
one hour and ten minutes late. The /
order which Conductor Lawrence Of
the freight train showed after the ac-
cident distinctly states that No. 30. /
instead Of No. "a. was one hour and
ten minutes late Conductor Law
renee. believing that he had sufficient
time I'm the hour and ten minutes to |
reach the sidetrack at West Canaan.
four miles beyond. before No. 30 |
reached II. ordered his train ahead.
The superintendent declared that the
accident was due to the mistake in
placing a cipher after the three in the
of the train instead of four.