The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-09-25
TRAIN RUN. DOWN
And Many Passengers Are Killed
and Wounded.
OF OPERATOR.

a Heavily Loaded Excursion Train
on the Boston and Maine Railroad
Returning From the Canadian
Provinces Almost Telescoped by q
Long and Heavily Loaded Freight
Train.
A fearful head-on collision be-
tween the southbound Quebec and a
northbound freight train on the Con-
cord division of the Boston & Maine
railroad occurred four miles north of
Canaan Station, VT, early Sunday,
due to a mistake in train dispatcher's
orders and from a demolished pas
senger coach there were taken "a
dead and dying and twenty-seven
other passengers, most of them ser
iously wounded. Nearly all those
who we're in the death car we're re-
turning from a fair at Sherbrock,
Quebec, 160 miles north
The conductor of the freight train
vas given to understand that he had
plenty of time to reach a siding by
the night operator at Canaan Sta.
ton, receiving, according to the sup
erintendent of the division, a copy OF
the telegraph order from the train
dispatcher at Concord which confus-
ed the train Nos. 80 and "a. The
wreck occurred just after the ex-
press had rounded into a straight
stretch of track but, owing to the
early morning mist, neither engineer
saw the others headlight until 1t was
too late.
According to w. r. Ray, Jr., d.
vision superintendent; J. r. Crow
ley, the night train dispatcher ct
Concord, sent a dispatch to John
Greedy, the night operator at Canaan,
that No. "a was one hour and 10
minutes late. The order which Con-.
ductor Lawrence of the freight train
showed after the, accident distinctly
states that No. SO, instead Of No. "a.
was an hour and ten minutes late
Conductor Lawrence believing that
he had sufficient time in the hour
and ten minutes to reach the side
track at West Canaan, four miles
beyond, before No. 80 reached 1t,
ordered his train ahead. The super
declared that the accident
was due to the mistake. In placing \
cipher after the three in the numbe-
of the train instead of a four.
The Dead and Injured.
Those identified up to 6 o'clock
Sunday night were as follows:
Timothy Shaughnessey, Castle Bar.
Quebec.
Mrs. Shaughnessey.
Miss Annie st. Pierre, Isle Verte.
Que.
Fred M. Phelps, Ochiltree. Texas.
Mrs. A. E. Warren. Haverhill,
Mass.
Mrs. F. C. Blake, South Corinth.
vt.
Mrs. Margaret Largy, Manchester.
N. H.
Miss Barrett, Manchester.
Mrs. Philip Gagnon, S~herbooke.
Miss Alvina Giron, Nashua
Mrs. Webster, a dressmaker living
in Massachusetts,.
J. l.. Coneron, Somervillc, Mass.
Infant child of Irving Clifford, Con-
cord, N. H.
Mrs. E. L. Briggs, West Canaan.
N. H.
John G. Duncan, Bethel, vt.
The unidentified include a boy
four years old, a man 40 years old,
a woman of 80 years, a man Of 55,
a man IS, and four others.
Twenty-Five of the bodies we've re-
moved to Concord during the day.
The most seriously injured VINO
were taken to the Margaret Hitch
cock hospital, at Hanover, N. H., in
clude an unknown boy with both
legs broken and arm torn out and
head injured, dying.
Mrs. S. Saunders, Nashua, mead
and back injured.
Mrs. C. N. Saunders, Nashua
wounds on head.
Mrs. C. Saunders, Nashua, contus-
ions on face.
Miss D. Saunders, Nashua, internal
injuries.
Fred Saunders, Nashua, shoulder
injured.
Mrs. Hester Saunders, Brockton'
Mass, head and back injured.
Charles St. Pierre, Isle Verte'
Que, internal injuries.
Arthur Jacques, Millbury' internal
injuries.
e. A. Batchleder, Somerville. an
kle broken.
Philip Gagmon, sherbrooke' inter-
nal injuries.
John Barrett, Manchester, n. H.
head and breast injured.
Miss Abby Jansen, Nashua broke
frontal bone.
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