The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-09-20
TWENTY-FIVE DEAD.
Head-on Collision on Boston
and Maine Road.
DISASTROUS WRECK At CANAAN, Vt,
Excursionists From sherbrooke, RE-
turning over Canadian BORDER
Meet Death and Injury Near
white HfVer Junction.

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION. Vt,
Sept. II. 80 Twenty-Five and perhaps
more people. mostly excursionists re-
turning from the Canadian provinces,
met death and many others were IN
iured at about daylight in a fearful
train wreck. due 70 head-0n 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, It IS feared. may not survive.
Following Is 0 partial list OF the
dead. Annie ST. Pierre, Isle Vert, Que;
Mrs +. 7. Briggs. West Lebanon.
MI; Fred ~ Phelps. Ochiltree, Tex;
Mrs. VI. L. Warren. Haverhlll Mass;
Mrs. L. c. Blake, South Corinth VII
Timothy shaugnessey and his wife,
Castle Bar, Que; Mrs. John Barrett
and her daughter, Manchester. \ IL;
Mrs. Philip Gagnon. sherbrooke, Que;
Mics Alvina Giron. Nashua, y. II, j..
VI. Congdon. 1873 Summer street Hos-
ton, infant child OF Erwin Ginord, Con
cord, n. II; Mrs. Webster, dressmakcr,
living In Massachusetts. and ave 9th
ers, unidentified
six victims just Identified are Domi-
nick Beuolt, Lowell. Mass; c. T. Der
by. BOSTON; Mrs. l. c. Blake. somer-
vile. Mass; Leila Houid. Manchester,
y. H.; II. D. stevens. Musquodobolt
Harbor. y. S. and Annie ST Pierre
Isle yerte, Que.
At tho Mary Hitchcock hospital az
Hanover Miss Alblna juror of Nashua,
y. H.. lies internally injured and may
die.
A train Of four cars, well filed with
tired. sleepy excurslonists, nearly all
Of whom had been spending the day
al the fair al sherbrooke Que, 100
miles over the Canadian border 70 the
north, had rounded O curve NJ lively
speed when the headlight Of freight
locomotive flashed before the eyes Of
the engineer In another instant there
was crash and both engines We're
living together mass Of wreckage In
the ditch beside the track. The bag
gage car, next TO the passenger loco
motive. had been driven back into the
passenger coach. telescoping II and
crushing the lives out Of hoif a carload
Of people. AZ the same time nearly
every one else In that car was injured
A few escaped, but those who were
I'm the sleeping car iD the rear were
saved from death by the more sturdy
qualities Of their car
The accident occurred Just as the
dawn was showing IN the east The
moment after II happened train hands
who had escaped injury and nassen-
gers IN the sleeping car were looking
upon one Of the worst wrecks ever
seen In New Hampshire.
While the proans OF the dying could
be heard above the din one man stood
out amid the throna AZ a hero. He
was Frank Ryan, brakeman on the
EXPRESS. He had been thrown many
feet from the car on which ne stood
and lay unconscious for q few min
ntes. Revlvlng, he crawled painfully
10 where be saw dim forms fighting
10 rip the coach apart and save whom
ever they might
Calling 70 one man as he held up his
arm, showing q severe wound, he said
IN a weakening tone.
"The Montreal express. old man, is
coming down on the wreck For Gods
sake stop It, There's no sigDalman
left"
Ryan fell back, his life seemingly
about 70 ebb away. while the messcn-
ger no had chosen ran frantically NJ
tho track and in the dim morning mist
managed 10 flag the Montreal express
ana stop II a quarter Of a mile away
Had not Ryan regalned conscious
ness It seems certain that the Montreal
express, laundering along AT tremen-
lous speed, would have whIrled into
tho mass Of wreckago and frightfully
| Increased the horrors
II r. estimated that both trains were
going at a speed Of thirty 10 forty
miles an hour. There was time 10 put
on the brnkcs, and then both engine
crews jumped. escaping injury.