Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1907-09-19
Twenty fIVE DIE
IN RAILWAY Wreck
TERRIBLE HEAD-oN COLLISION
OCCURS NEAR CANAAN STA
TON, VT.
The Injured Number 27-Passenger
Trains on the Boston & Maine
Crash Experimentation of Or
ders Blamed for the Disaster.

ders Blamed for the Disaster.
White River Junction, VT, Sept 16
"A fearful head-on collision between
the south bound Quebec express and a
north bound freight train on the Con-
cord division Of the Boston & Names
! railroad occurred four miles north of
Canaan Station early Sunday, due to a
mistake in train dispatchers orders,
and from demolished passenger
coach there were taken out Is dead
and dying and 27 other passengers,
most of them seriously wounded.
Nearly all those who were in the
death car were returning from a fair
at Sherbrooke, Quebec, 60 miles
north. ~~+ .:~' -
The conductor of the freight train
was given to understand that he had
plenty of time to reach siding by
the night operator at Canaan Station,
receiving, according to the superin-
tendent of the division, copy, of a
telegraph order from the train dis
patcher at Concord which confused
the train numbers 80 and 81.
The wreck occurred just after the
express had rounded into straight
early morning mist neither engineer
saw the others headlight until it was
too late.
Names of Identified Dead.
Those identified up to six o'clock
Sunday night were as follows: q.
Timothy Shaughnessey, Castle Bar,
Quebec; Mrs. Shaughnessey; Miss
Annie St. Pierre, Isle Verte, Quebec;
Fred NJ Phelps, Ochiltree, Tex; Mrs.
A. E. Warren, Haverhill, Mass; Mrs.
F. G. Blake, South Corinth, VT; Mrs.
Margaret Largy, Manchester, N. H.;
Miss Barrett, Manchester; Mrs. Phil
lip Gagnom, SherbrCCke; Minis Alvina
Giron, Nashua; Mrs Webster, dress
maker living in ASA chusetts; J. L.
CFongrot, Somerv;lle, Mass; infant
child of Irving Clifford, Concord, N. H.
child of Irving Clifford Ccncorn, N. H.. !;
Mrs. E. L. Briggs, West Canaan, N.
H.; John G. Duncan, Bethel, VT
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 each
engineer saw the headlights of the
opposite train burst out of the fog.
Both 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.
Crowded Car Telescoped.
The baggage car in the rear was
hurled back into the passenger coach
like great ram, and tore it asunder
from end to end. The Inflated pas
senger coach was crowded with more
than SO people. Shortly before the ac-
cident few of the men had gone
back into the smoking car in the rear,
leaving the women to get a little sleep
in the straight seats. One of those
who escaped said that as the train
was rounding curve some one in the
front of the car began to sing, so that
nearly everyone was awake when the
crash came. Those who were in the
other car hurried to the demolished
| puassenger coach, where grOans, cries
and shrieks were rendtng the air. :
Fortunately, with the engines off to
one side, the wreckage did not take
fire. The train hands, ably seconded
by the passengers from the sleeping
car, CROPPED their way among the
ruins and began to the work of rescue.
Wounds were hastily bound up and
cuts stauuehed by strips of bedding
from the sleepers. The little band
worked diligently in the dawning light
| before the doctors came. r
The neighborhood is a sparsely set
tied one, but the few farmers were
aroused and lent every aid to the work,
Of succor. In the meantime word had
been dispatched to this place and to
Concord and Hanover and within an
hour large force of physicians was
on their way to the wreck, =
Montreal Express Saved.
The accident was not without it's
heroes and one of these was Frank
Ryan, a brakeman on the express.
Ryan was caught in the wreck and
had an artery severed. He was un-
conscious for nearly IS minutes and
when he regained his senses his first
thought was of the Montreal express,
which he knew was laundering down
on the wreck, with no brakeman in
the rear to wave warning signal. In
a few words Ryan told of the approach
ing danger and the Montreal express
was stopped only a, quarter of mile
from the rear of the wrecked train.
Farmer Finds Mothers Body.
Among the West Canaan farmers
who aided was Benjamin Briggs, who