Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-16

speed, the freight on a down grade of
fifty feet to the mile. The engine of the
passenger train telescoped the baggage
car, day coach and part of smoking car
ranging behind it in that order. The en-
CINE and six cars of the freight were piled
in a heap.
day coach of the passenger train. right be-
hind the baggage car. The occupants of
this coach were for the most part French
Canadians bound from Manchester,
Nashau and Lowell to work in the mines.
AS soon news of the wreck reached
this city two working trains were made up
and hurried to the scene. On them were
sent all the doctors and nurses available.
The accident occurred in a very sparsely
settled region and there We're no places to
b2stow the injured With the arrival of the
Wrecking trains a lot of them We're hurried
to this city. The most seriously injured
were taken to the hospital at Hanover.
Homes of Victims.
The French Canadians killed and injured
in the wreck nearly all came from towns
in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
They had been up to the Sherbrooke fair
in eastern Canada, and were returning on
the last day that their tickets We're good
Two coaches filled with these people had
been added on to the regular train from
Quebec. These French Canadians all cane
originally from around Sherbrooke ana vi
clnlty and the fair each year is the occa-
sion for family reunions.
The occupants of a combination smoking
car and of sleeping car on the rear of the
train escaped with only shaking up Those
in the first coach behind the baggage car
were all killed. This car crumpled up like
paper wher. telescopad by the baggage car
and engine, and escape for the occupants
was impossible.
The railroad officials gave out long
statement here to explain the accident
and announced that rigid investigation
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blame.
Nearby Towns Help.
Physicians and residents, of Canaan,
White River Junction. Hanover and other
towns in the vicinity and the farmers from
the adjacent territory made for the scene
of the wreck in all sorts of conveyances
soon they learned of the accident
Fortunately another passenger train from
Quebec wasn't far behind the W ,ecked one
This train. No. "a, left White River juno
ton a few minutes after 3 o'clock with
physicians and others anxious to ala the in
jured The track between the scene of the
wreck and the Junction was Ike pit clear. and
the second passenger train was thus able
to bring the badly wounded back to White
River Junction and tAen on to the hospital
al Hanover.
The dead were all removed to Concord
Many of the bodies in such condition
that identification is difficult if not impos-
sible.
List of the Dead.
The wrecked passenger tain left White
River Junction at $50 o'clock in the morn
ing. 1t was forty-fve minutes late and be-
Ing behind time is responsible for the
shifting of the orders. The freight was
on time. The collision occurred on a
stretch of straight track. Had the morning
been clear the engine crews would have
seen each other and very likely the wreck
would have been averted.
The wreck tied up the railroad complete
ly for almost the entire day 1t was 2
o'clock in the afternoon before the track
was cleared sufficiently to permit the first
train to pass
List of dead: