Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-09-16
misunderstanding Of Orders
Responsible for FrightfuI
Head on Collision on Boston
and Maine in Vermont,
VICTIMS CRUSHED TO
DEATH IN FRAIL COACH
Flying Express Dashes Into
Heavy Freight on Straight
Track Mist Hides Headlight
Of vi Fated Train,

White River Junction, VT, Sept Is.
AT least twenty-five people were
killed in a frightful head-on collision
between the southbound Quebec ex-
press and a northbound freight train
on the Concord division of the Boston
and Maine railroad early today. The
accident occurred about four miles
north of Canaan station, and was due
to a mistake In the train dispatcher's
orders
From one of the demolished coaches
was taken out twenty-five dead and
dying passengers, while twenty-seven
other persons are more or less seri-
ously injured. Nearly all of those in
the death car were returning from
fair at Sherbrooke, Quebec, sixty
miles north of the scene of the dis
aster.
The conductor of the freight train
had been given to understand that he
had plenty of time to reach side
track whore he was to pass the pas
senger train. The misunderstanding
was caused by the night operator al
Canaan, according to a statement of
the division superintendent, copy of
a telegraph order from the dispatcher
at Concord, in which the operator
confused the train number 80 and 34
The wreck occurred just after the
express train had rounded curve
/. onto the straight track Owing to the
early morning mist. neither of the en-
gineers saw the headlight of the
other until Il was too late
The Identified Dead
Those Identified up to o'clock to-
night are:
TIMOTHY sHAUGNEssY, Castle
Bar Quebec.
MRS. SHAUGHNEssY.
MISS ANNA ST. PIERRE, Isle
Verte, Quebec
FRED M. PELL, Oehiltree, Tex
MRS. A. e. WARREN, Haverhill,
MRS. F. c. BLAKE. South Co
rinth, VT.
MRS. MARGARET LARGY, Man
chester, N. II.
MISS BARRETT, Manchester, N. H.
MRS. PHILLIP GAGoN, Sher-
brooke, Quebec.
MISS ALVINA GlRON, Nassau.
MRS. WEBSTER, dressmaker, liv-
ing in Massachusetts,.
]. l. CoNGRoTH, sommerville'
Mass.
INFANT. CHILD Of Irving Clifford,
Concord, N. H.
MRS. e. BRIGGS, West Canaan.
JOHN q. DUNCAN. Bethel. VT.
Tile Unidentified Dead
The unidentified dead include b. y
years old: man, 40 years old; a
woman, 80 years old; a woman II
55. and a man Of 35. Four other boar
les are so 'badiy mutilated as to render
II impossible to estimate their age
The most seriously injured were
hospital al Hanover NJ III. Among
the victims taken TO the hospital are
an unknown boy with both legs bro
ken. one arm wrenched from Its
socket, and badly injured about the
head removed from the wreckage In
dying condition. The names of the
injured as far as can be ascertained'
are:
Samuel Saunders, Nassau, N. H.;
legs and arm injured.
Mrs. s. Saunders, Nassau. head and
back injured
Miss b. Saunders, Nassau internal
injuries.
Miss c. Saunders, Nassau. confusion
of face.
Fred Saunders, Nassau; shoulder In
jured.
Miss Hester Saunders. Brauton,
Mass: head and back injured.
Charles 81. Pierre. Isle Verta. Que
bee; internal injuries.
Arthur Jacques, Millbury, N. H.;
internal injuries.
Il. A. Batchelder, Sommerville,
Mass: ankle broken.
Philip Gagnen, Sherbrooke, que
bee: internal injuries.
John Barrett. Manchester N. H.;
head and breast injured.
Miss A. Jansen, Nassau; broken
frontal bone. as Nit fhH
The southbouKd train was made up
at SherbroOke,u q Quebec. last evening"
where II picked up two sleepers from
the city Of Quebec and two more on
the way south. II consisted Of a bag
gage car passenger coach and smok-
ing car In that order, with the four
sleepers attached to the rear. the
train left white River Junction this
morning at $3.50 forty minutes late,
and was followed twenty minutes later
by the Montreal express over the Gem
tral Vermont railroad. The Quebec
train Is known as No. 30 and the Mon
treal train as No. "a. In the mean
time the northbound train, known as
fast freight No. 267, had arrived at
Canaan, eighteen miles down the line,
at 4:fO on time. According to Divl-
sion superintendent W. r. Ray j. r.
Crowley. night train dispatcher at
Concord, sent q dlepatch to John
Greeley, night operator that No. 81
was an hour and ten minutes late.
The order which Conductor Lawrence
Of the freight showed after the aeelr
dent. distinctly states that No. 30. In
stead OF No.taA vas an hourfand ten
minutes late. COnqnctora Yawrence,
believing be hadh sufficient time n
the hour and ten minutes TO reach