The Nevada County picayune., 1907-09-19
TN[NTYfOUR DIE IN WRECK
VERMONT ExCURSIoNiST WERE RETURNING FROM
 CANADA.
NEARLY THIRTY ARE INJURED
Baggage Car Telescopes Passenger Coach, Crushing the Lives Out of Half a Carload of People-But.
 Few Escaped Injury.

White River Junction, Vt, Sept. It. ,-Twenty-four eXCursionists returning from Canada met death and many oth- CTS were injured about daylight sun day in a fearful head-on collision on the Concord division of the Boston x Maine railroad. about four miles west of Canada station. The badly ln- iured numbered nearly thirty some oI whom. it is feared may not recover. At noon twenty bodies had been taken from the wreck.
 train of four cars, well hlled With tired, sleepy eXcursionists, nearly all of whom had been spending the day at the fair at Sherbrooke, Que, Just over the Canadian border to the north, had rounded a curve at a lively speed when the headlight of a freight loco motive flashed before the eyes Of the engineer. In another instant there was a crash, and both engines were lying together, mass of wreckaSe, in the ditch beside the track, the bag
  motive had been driven back into the passenger coach, telescoping it and crushing the lives out of half car load of people. At the same tune nearly everyone else in that ca: was injured. But few escaped, but those who were in the sleeping car in the rear were saved from death by the more sturdy qualities of the car.
 Occurred Just at Dawn.
 The accident occurred at 4: "A a. m., just at dawn was showing in the east. The moment after it happened train hands who had escaped injury and passengers in the sleeping car were looking upon one of the worst wrecks ever seen in New Hampshire. The locomotives lay in tangled pile. The baggage car. partly derailed, was held nearly upright by the wreckage of the demolished day coach. one side of which had been completely ripped. 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 demolished and windows broken. The sleeper was practically undamaged. 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.
 The cries and moans of the injured prompted speedy action. Out from under broken beams and splintered joists bleeding forms were dragged and laid on broken backs of seats or blankets from the sleeping car. Wounds were hastily bound up with torn sheets from the berths and such other help as could be hastily provid- ed was given. An hour elapsed before physicians could be brought from Han over, White River Junction and Ca Aaan. The dead were placed beside the track to await more satisfactory disposition.
 Few Escaped Uninjured.
 There were a comparatively few in the crowd of rescuers who did not show some wound from the disaster.
 AS soon as possible two of the trainmen who had escaped were sent to Canaan for help. while others sought nearby cottages and farm houses for assistance In the New Hampshire mountains doctors are few and an hour went by before the arrival of the first physician.
 Injured Are Sent to Hospitals.
 A hospital train was dispatched from here within few minutes after news of the accident was received, and by o'clock the first of the most serious ly injured had reached here. Seven were afterwards sent 10 Hanover t. avoid overcrowding the local hospital Soon after daylight a crowd from the country side began to assemble and by the middle of the forenoon the curious ones numbered several hun dred. During the forenoon the wreck ing trains were sent from White River Junction and Concord and put to work and the track was cleared early in the afternoon, although ten of the thirty freight cars which had comprised the lrelSnJ tfaln were de railed and the track was torn up for a quarter of a mile. By noon the work of rescue had been completed and it became known that the number of dead was 24 Twenty-two of ttem were taken by train to Concord and two were sent to this place. Before the removal fourteen had been identi fled