The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-09-19
Is DFAD IN VRECKO IRAN
A misunderstanding of Orders
Results in Awful Catastrophe
MANY PERSONS INJURED Baby
Excursion Train on the Conco,,
Division of the Boston & NAM
Railroad Crashes Into a Freigbt
With Terrible Results.

White River Junction, VT, Specia
"A fearful head-on collision betwep,
the southbound Quebec express and
northbound freight train on the Con,
cord division of the Boston & Maina
Railroad, four miles north Of Canaan
station early Sunday, due to a mis-.
take III train dispatcher's orders and
from a demolished passenger coach
there were taken "a dead and DIVING
and n other passengers, most Of
them seriously wounded. Nearly all
those who were in the death car were
returning from a fair at Sherbrooke.
Quebec, 100 miles north.
The conductor Of the freight train .
was given to understand that he had
plenty of time to reach a siding nv
the night operator at Canaan sta
ton, receiving, according to the su-
perintendent of the division, a COW
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 express
had rounded into a straight streteI.
Of track, but owing to the early morn.
ing mist neither engineer saw the
others head light until it was too
late.
The List of the Dead.
Those identified up to 6 O'Clock at
night were as follows:
Timothy Shaughnessey, Castle Bar,
Quebec.
Mrs. Shaughnessey.
Miss Annie St. Pierre, Verte, Que
bee.
Fred M. Phelps, Ochiltree, Texas.
Mrs. A. E. Warren, HaverhiIl,
Mass.
Mrs. F. C. Blake, South Corinth,
vt.
Mrs. Maragret Largy, Manchester,
N. H.
Mrs. Philip Gagnon, Sherbrooke.
Miss Barrett, Manchester, n. Fl.
Miss Alvira Giron, Nashua.
Mrs. Webster, a dressmaker living
In Massachusetts.
j. L. Conron, Somervine, Mass.
Infant child of Irving Clifford, Con-
cord, N. H.
Mrs. E. L. Briggs, West Canaan,
John G. Duncan, Bethel, Vt.
The unidentified include a bow 4
years old, a man 40 years old, a Wo-
man of 30 years, a man of So, and
four others.
Those Seriously injured.
The most seriously injured, who
were taken to the Margaret Hitch
cock Hospital at Hanover, n. H, IN
cludes IN unknown boy with both legs
broken, arm torn out and head IN
jured, dying. The other known in
jured are: Mrs. S.. Saunders, head
and back injured; Mrs. C. N. Saun-
ders, Nashua, wounds on head; Miss
c. Saunders, Nashua, ~contusions or
face; Miss D. Saunders, Nashua, in
ternal injuries; Fred Saunders, Nash
ua, shoulder injured; Mrs. Hester
Saunders, Brocton, Mass head and
back injured; Charles St. Pierre Isle
Verte, Que, internal injuries: Arthur
Jacques, Millbury, internal injuries;
E. A. Batchelder, Somerville, ankle
broken; Philip Gagnon Sherbrooke,
internal injuries; John Barrett, Mar
chester, n. H, head and breast IN
iured; Miss Abby Jansen, Nashua,
broken frontal bone.
The southbound train was made up
at S~herbrooke, where it picked up
two sleepers from Quebec and two
more on the way down: It consist
ed of the baggage car, passenger
coach and smoking car in that order,
with the sleepers in the rear. The
train left White River Junction at
$3.50 a. M, 40 minutes late and fol-
lowed 20 minutes later by the Mon
treal express over the Central Yer
mont. The Quebec express is known
as No. 80 and the Montreal train as
No. "a.
Meantime a northbound freight
at Canaan, Is miles down the road,
at 4:10 a. M, on time. According
to w. r. Ray, Jr., division superln-
tendent, j. r. Crowley, the night
train dispatcher at Concord, sent a
dispatch to John Greeley, the night
operator at Canaan that No. "a was
one hour and 10 minutes late. The
order which Conductor Lawrence, OIL
the freight train, showed after the
accident distinctly states that No.
80 instead of No. "a was an hour
and 10 minutes late. Conductor
Lawrence, believing that he had sui
ficient time in the hour and ten MILL
utes TO reach the Sidetrack at West
Canaan, four miles beyond, before
No. 80 reached it, ordered his tram
ahead. The superintendent declared
that the accident was due to the MS
take in placing a cipher after the
three in the number of the traH
instead of a four.