The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-09-17
TWENTY KILLED
ExcurSionists Meet Awful Death
on Quebec Express.
FORTY OTHERS ARE INJURED
Error of One Figure In TeIegraphed
Order Said to Have Caused Disaster
on Boston and Maine RaiIroad-FIier
Hits FREIGHT Train.

mostly excurSiOniSts returning on thu
Quebec express from the Canadian
provinces, met death and many others
were injured at about daylight in {
fearful train wreck, due to head-oI
collision on the Concord division OF
the Boston and Maine railroad abou
four miles west of Canaan station
The badly injured numbered forty
some of whom, it is feared, may mo-
survive.
Twenty bodies have been taken from
the wreck, and at least one man is
missing. Fourteen of the bodies have
been identified. 1t is thought that q
misunderstanding of orders by the
crew of the freight train caused the
accident
The seemingly simple mistake of in
terpreting a cipher for number ~
caused the snuffing out of all these
lives. Instead of understanding that
train No. 30 would be an hour and ten
minutes late it is alleged that the OPP
orator and dispatcher at Canaan Sta
ton interpreted the number as "a.
The Identified Dead.
The following is a list of the identi-
fed dead Mrs. John Barrett, Man
chester, N. H.; Miss Annie Barrett,
Manchester, N. H.; Mrs. L. G. Blake,
West Somerville, Mass; Mrs. Adolphe
Boisevert, Concord, N. H.; Mrs. E. T.
Briggs, West Canaan, N. H.; Richard
Clarkson, Lebanon, N. H.; J. M. Con
don, Bethel, VT, John G.. Duncan,
Bethel, VT; Arthur Freeman, Canaan,
N. H.; Mrs. Philip Gagnon, Sherbrooke,
Que. infant child of Irving Clifford,
Concord, N. H.; Miss Alvina Giron,
Nashua, n. H.; Mrs. q. r. Griggs,
West Lebanon, N. H.; Mrs. Joseph La
vote, 90 Quebec street, Sherbrooke,
Que; Fred M. Phelps or Phillips, Och
iltree, Tex; Augustine Roger, Man
chester, N. H.; Timothy Shaughnessey,
Castle Bar, Que. Mrs. Bridget Shaugh-
nessey, Castle Bar, Que; George L.
Southwick, Worcester, Mass; Miss An
ME St Pierre, Isle Verte, Que; Mrs.
M. E. Warren, Haverhill, Mass. Mrs.
Webster, dressmaker, living in Mas
sachusetts.
The Injured.
The injured are as follows: Unknown
person, both legs broken, arm torn
out and head injured, dying; three
children cut and bruised not seriously;
John Barrett, Manchester, N. H., head
and breast injured; e. A. Batchelder,
Somerville, ankle broken; William
Cunningham, Hamilton, Mass, back
and chest injured Mrs. G. A. Quincy,
Manchester right side injured; Philip
Gagnon, Sherbrooke, internal injuries;
Arthur Jacques, Millbury, internal in
juries; Miss Jennie Jameson, Nashua,
hip wrenched; Miss Abby Janson,
Nashua, broken frontal bone; Miss
Della Moran Manchester, N. H.,
bruised face; Henry Moran, Nashua,
wrist bruised; Mrs Moran, Nashua,
concussion of head; Miss Juno Noyes,
North Somerset, VT, head and back
injured; Miss Rosa Reagan, Manches-
ter, bruised face; Frank Ryan, brake
man, White River Junction, right arm
bruised and leg cut; 8. Saunders,
Nashua, N. H, left leg and wrist in
jured; Mrs. s. Saunders, head and
back injured; Mrs. G. N. Saunders,
Nashua, N. H., scalp wounds; Miss G.
Saunders, Nashua, N. H., Commissions
ON face; Miss d. Saunders, Nashua,
N. H., internal injuries; Fred Saun-
ders, Nashua, N. H., shoulders injured;
Mrs. Hester Saunders, Brockton, Mass,
head and back injured; Charles st.
Pierre, Isle Verte, Que, internal in
juries; Miss Ella Vintumen, Lisbon
N H, clavicle bone broken
Filler Crashes Into Freight.
A train of four cars, well filled with
tired, sleepy excursionists, nearly all
of whom had been spending the day
at the fair at Sherbrooke, Que, 100
miles over the Canadian border to the
north, had rounded curve at lively
speed when the headlight of freight
locomotive flashed before the eyes of
the engineer. In another instant there
was a crash and both engines We're
lying together mass of wreckage in
the ditch beside the track The bag
gage car, next to the passenger loco
motive, had been driven back into the
passenger coach, telescoping it and
crushing the lives out Of half carload
of people At the same time nearly
every one else in that car was injured.
A few escaped, but those who were
in the sleeping car in the rear were
saved from death by the more sturdy
qualities Of their car.
The accident occurred just as the
dawn was showing in the east The
moment after it happened train hands
who had escaped injury and passen-
gers in the sleeping car We're looking
upon onef of the worst wrecks ever
seen in New Hampshire.
Cars Rent Into Splinters.
The locomotives lay in a tangled
pile. The baggage car, partly derailed,
was held nearly upright by the wreck
age of the demolished day coach, one
side of which had been completely rip
ped Off while the remainder was
ground to splinters by the force of the
shock. A smoker behind the day
coach stood on the rails with ends de-
molished and windows broken. The
sleeper was practically unchanged.
In the debris of the passenger coach
lay more dead and injured than could
be estimated at the moment. AT once
those who had escaped harm saw
their task
AS the sun rose the full horror of the
disaster became apparent. Along the