The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-09-16
TWO DOZEN DEAD
AND AS MANY
MORE HURT
Head-On Collision on Boston &
Maine
SHOCKING WRECK AT CANAAN
Excursion Train From Sherbrooke.
Que, pashos Into Freight Mis-.
take In Orders.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION. VI
Sept 10 - Twenty-Five aud perhaps
more people. mostly eXcursionists re-
turning from the Canadian provinces
met death aud many others were In.
Jured at about daylight In a fearful
train wreck, due 90 n head-un collision
on the Concord division Of the Boston
and Maine railroad about four miles
west OF Canaan station. The badly
Injured numbered nearly thirty. some
OF whom. Il Is feared. may not survive
Twenty bodies have been taken from
the wreck, aud nc least one man is
missing Fourteen ~ the bodies have
boon Identified II Il thought that q
misunderstanding 81 orders by the
crew OF the freight train caused the
accident
Following Il a partial list o. the
dead: Annie St Pierre, Isle Vert. Que
Mrs. T.. T. Briggs, West Lebanon.
\. n; Fred VI. Phelps Ochiltrre. Tex;
Mrs NJ. 4 Warren. Hayerhlll. Mass;
Ms T. &. Blake. South Corinth. Vt.
Timothy Shnugnessey and his wife
Castle Bar. Que: Mrs. John Barrett
and her daughter Manchester. y. H.:
Mrs Philip Gagon. Sherhrookc. Que. (:
Miss Alvlna Giron. Nashua. y. H.. J.
~ Congdon. ia3 summer street. Bos-
ton: infant child 90 Erwin clifford. Con.
cord. n. H.: Mrs. Webster. drcssmaker.
living In Massachusetts,. aud i've 9th.
ers. unidentified
A train Of four ears. well filled with
tired. sleepy eXcursionlsis. nearly all
q whom had been spending the day
NJ the fair at Sherhrookc Que. iGO
miles over the Canadian border to the
north. had rounded curve az lively
speed when the headlight ~ freight
locomotive flashed before the eyes o.
the engineer. In another Instant there
was a crash and bath engines were
lying together n mass ~ wreckagr IN
the ditch beside the track The bag
Eage car. next 20 the passenger loco.
motive. had been driven hack into the
passenger coach, telcscoplng Il aud
crushing the lives out % half n carload
% people At the same time nearly
every one else In that car was injured
A few escapcd. but those who wer,
In the sleeping ear Ia the rear were
saved from death by the more sturdy
qualities ~ their car.
The accident occurred Just m the
dawn wns showing In the east The
moment after II happened train hands
who bad escaped injury aud passcn
gers In the sleeping car were looking
upon one % the worst wrecks ever
seen In New Hampshire.
The locomotives lay IN tangled
pile. The baggage car. partly dernllc,i.
was hold nearly upright by the wreck
age 81 the demolished day coach. Que
sids Of which had b.cn completely rip.
pod OF. while the remainder was
ground 90 spllntcrs by the force Of the
shock. A smoker behind the day
coach stood on the rails with ends de-
mollshed and windows broken. The
sleeper was practically unchanged.
In the debris of the passenger coach
lay more dead aud injured than could
h. estimated az the moment AZ once
those who had ESCAPED harm saw
their task.
AZ the sun rose the full horror Of the
disaster became apparent Along the
side of the track lay the dead. yet un-
covered. A little farther off were the
living. some stretched on the ground
with relatives. friends. but more often
total strangers binding their wounds
and encouraging them IN the thought
of speedy medical aid
There were comparatively few In
that crowd Of rcscuers who did not
show some wound from the disaster
II IL estimated that both trains were
going ~ n speed OF thirty 10 forty
miles an hour There was time 90 put
on the brakes. aud then both engine
crews Jumped. escaping injury.
sfate Constable Hurdsraa