The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-16
,WENTY-FOUR
 ARE KILLED Awful Collision Occurs In Vermont. MANY PASSENGERS ARE HURT Wreck Is Caused by a Mistake In
 Train Orders. Many of the Dead are stilI Unidenti- a-d--Passengers were Returning sR Home From Fair At
 sherbroeke.
MANY PASSENGERS ARE HURT

White River Junction. Vt. Sept. 15.-- the southbound Quebec Express and northbound freight on the Concord division of the Boston and Maine Rail- road. occurred four miles north of Ca- naan station early today, due to a mis- take in train despatcher's orders, and from a demolished passenger coach. there was taken out twenty -four dead and dying and twenty seven other pas- sengers, most of them seriously in- Jured. Nearly all of those who were in the death car were returning from fair at Sherbrooke. Quebec, sixty 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 supertn- tendent of the division, copy of a telegraph order from the train de- spatcher at Concord which confused the train numbers. 30 and S4.
 The wreck occurred just after the express had rounded into 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 o'clock tonight were as follows:
 | Timothy Shaughnessy, Casferbar, Quebec: Mrs. shaughenessy; Miss An nie St. Pierre, Isle Verte, Quebec; Fred M. Phelps. ochiltree, Texas; Mrs. A. D. Warren, Hayerhill. Mass; Mrs. c. Blake, Corinth, Vt: Mrs MargaIess I,argy. Manchester, N. H.; Miss Barrell, Manchester; Mrs. Phillip Gagnon. Hher- brooke: Miss AIvina Goron, Nashua Mrs webster, a dressmaker living In Massachusetts; J. l.. Congrot. somer- vIlle Mass; infant child of Irving Clifford, Concord. N. H.; Mrs. E. L. Briggs, west Canaan, N. H.; John O. Duncan, Bethel Vt. q.
 The unidentified include a boy years old, a. man 10 years old wo- man 90 years old. man b5 years old, s. rI,en sS years old and foar ethera- Twenty two Of the bodies were re- moved to Concord during the day.
 The most seriously injured who were taken to the Margaret Hitchcock HOS. pital at Hanover, N. H., include an un- known boy, legs broken, arm torn out and head injured. dying.
 The southbound train was made up at Sherbrooke last evening where 1t picked up sleepers from Quebec and two more on the way down. It 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 Junctien at 3:50 a. m today, forty minutes late, and was followed twenty minutes later by the Montreal express over the Gen. trai Vermont Railroad. .The Quebec train is known as No. 30, and the Mon treal train as No. 34.
 In the meantime, a northbound train known as No. 267 had arrived at Ca naan, eighteen miles down the road at 4:10 a. m., on time. According to the Division Superintendent. W. R. Ray, Jr J. R. Crowley. the night train dispatcher at Concord. sent a dispatch to John Greedy. the night operator at Canaan, that No. 34 was one hour and ten minutes late. The order which Conductor Lawrence of the freight train showed after the accident. dis- tinctly states that Nol S0. instead of No. s4, was one hour and ten minutes late Conductor Lawrence. believing that he had sufficient time in the one hour and ten minutes to reach the side track at West Canaan, four miles be- yond, before No. 30 reached 1t, or dered his train ahead. The Superin- tendent declared that the accident was due to the mistake in placing cipher after the three, in the number of the train, Instead of a four.