Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-09-21
FATAL TRAIN WRECK
TWENT-FOUR PERSONS KILLED
And MANY INJURED.
Quebec Express coIides With Bos-
ton & Maine Freight-Due to Mis-
take in Train Dispatcher's Orders
Occurred in Early Morning Hour
During a Heavy Mist.

White River Junction, VT. Septic.
"A fearful head-oQ collision between
the southbound Quebec express and a
northbound freight train on the Con-
cord division of the Boston & Maine
railway occurred four miles north of
Canaan station early yesterday. due to
mistake in train dispatcher's orders,
and from a demolished passenger
coach there we're taken out "a dead
and dying and .27 other passengers,
most of them seriously wounded.
Nearly all of those who were in the
death car were returning from fair
az 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 by
the night operator at Canaan, receiv-
ing, according to the superintendent
of the division, copy of a telegraph
order from the train dispatcher at
Concord, which confused the trains
numbers 80 and "a.
express had rounded into a straight
stretch of track, but owing to the
early morning mist neither engineer
saw the others headlight until it was
too late. Those identified up to
O'Clock Sunday night were as follows
List of the Dead.
Timothy Shaughnessy, Castle Bar
Quebec.
Mrs. Shaughnessy.
Miss Anna st. Pierre, Isle Verte
!; Quebec.
Fred M. Petts, Ochiltree, Texas.
Mrs. A. r. Warren, Haverhill, Mass
: Mrs. F. c. Blake, South Corinth, vi
: Mrs. Margaret Largy, Manchester
= N. H.
= Miss Barrett, Manchester.
Mrs. Philip Gagon. Sherbrooke
: Quebec.
Miss Alvina Garon, Nassau.
: Mrs. Webster. a dressmaker livin
} in Massachusetts.
} ]. ]. Concroth, Somerville, Mass.
Infant child of Irving Clifford, Cor
f cord.
2 Mrs. e. T. Briggs, West Canaan, n
2 H.
D John G. Duncan, Bethel, VT.
! The unidentified include a boy
D years of age and man 40 years OLE
a woman of so years, another of 81
: a man of 35 years and four Others
d Twenty-Five of the bodies were II
d moved to Concord during the night.
y The Train Was Late.
e The passenger train had left her
t bound for Concord about an hour lat
O The track to the south is a single on
/ to Franklin, so miles distant, with
a few sidings. 1t abounds in curve
while the greatest part of it froI
It Canaan is down grade. The freigl
Y train pulled out of siding SON
p miles to the south and started up tt
II track for this place at o'clock.
The train dispatcher's sheet at Co
v cord is declared to show that IL
q freight crew disobeyed orders in d
I ing so. There are no signals on Il
r road and the trains are directed fro
n station to station. Going north 1t
n long. straight track from Canas
,e to the curve where the accident ha
pened and the freight was makiI
good time when the passenger ira
came around the curve. 1t is es
mated both trains were going at
speed of from 80 to 40 miles an hor
N There was time to put on the brak
g. and both engine crews jumped al
d escaped injury.
D. Early in the afternoon, although
~ of the 80 freight cars which had CO..
ne posed that train were derailed. a.
30 the track was torn up for a quart
a. of mile, the work of rescue had be-
1g completed, and it became known tn
at the number of dead was "a. Twen1
III two of them were taken by train
'H Concord, and two were sent to IL
place.
ne Before the removal of the bodies
IN had been identified.
he