The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-09-25
train RUN DOWN
And Many Passengers Are Killed
and Wounded.
FAULT OF OPERATOR.
4 Heavily Loaded Excursion Train
on the Boston and Maine Railroad
Returning From the Canadian
Provinces Almost Telescoped by
Long and Heavily Loaded Freight
Train.

Long and Heavily Loaded Freight
Train.
A fearful head-on collision be-
tween the southbound Quebec and
northbound freight train on the Con-
cord division of the Boston & Maine
railroad occurred four miles north Of
Canan Station, VT, early Sunday,
due to mistake in train dispatcher's
orders and from a demolished pas
senger coach there were taken "a
dead and dying and twenty-seven
other passengers, most Of them ser
iously wounded. Nearly all those
who were in the death car were re-
turning from a fair at Sherbrock,
Quebec, $50 miles north.
The conductor Of the freight train
was given to understand that he had
olenty of time to reach a siding By
the night operator at Canaan Sta
ton, receiving, according to the sup
erintendent of the division, a copy OF
the telegraph order from the train
dispatcher at Concord which confus-
ed the train Nos. SO and "a. The
wreck occurred just after the ex-
press 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.
According to W. R. Ray, Jr., di-
vision superintendent; ]. R. Crow
ley, the night train dispatcher at
Concord, sent dispatch to John
Greely, the night operator at Canaan,
that No. "a was one hour and 20
minutes late. The order which Con-
ductor Lawrence Of the freight train
showed after the accident distinctly
states that No. 80, instead Of No. "a.
was an hour and ten minutes late
/ Conductor Lawrence believing that
he had sufficient time in the hour
and ten minutes to reach the SIDE
track at West Canaan, four miles
bevond, before No. 80 reached It,,
ordered his train ahead. The super
intendent declared that the accideus
was due to the mistake in placing q
cipher after the three in the numbe-
of the train instead of a four.
The Dead and Injured.
Those identified up to O'Clock
Sunday night were as follows:
Timothy Shaughnessey, Castle Bar.
Quebec.
Mrs. Shaughnessey.
Miss Annie st. Pierre, Isle Verte,
Que.
Fred NJ. Phelps, oehiltree, Texas.
Mrs. A. E. Warren. Haverhill,
Mass.
Mrs. F. C. Blake, South Corinth.
vt.
Mrs. Margaret Largy, Manchester.
n H.
Miss Barrett, Manchester.
Mrs. Philip Gagnon, sherbooke-
Miss Alvina Giron, Nashua.
Mrs. Webster, a dressmaker living
in Massachusetts,.
, J. l.. Coneron, Somerville, MAJ
infant child Of Irving Clifford, Con-
, oord, n. H.
Mrs. E. L. Briggs, West Canaan.
N. H.
John G. Duncan, Bethel, vt.
:, The unidentified include boy
tour years old, man 40 years Old
woman of 80 years, man OF 55'
, man 35, and four others.
Twenty-Five of the bodies we've re.
moved to Concord during the day. !.
The most seriously injured who
we're taken to the Margaret Hitch
cock hospital, at Hanover, N. H., IN
: clude an unknown boy with DOLE
legs broken and arm torn out ane
head injured, dying.
s Mrs. S. Saunders, Nashua neae
+ and back injured.
L Mrs. C. N. Saunders, Nashua
le wounds on head.
E Mrs. C. Saunders, Nashua, contus
5. ions on face.
\. Miss D. Saunders, Nashua, mterna
h Fred Saunders, Nashua, shouide
injured. ,,,,+or
Sc Mrs. Hester Saunders, BrocA'on
Sc Mass. head and back injured.
p charles St. Pierre, Isle 'ei'e
is Que, internal injuries: ..4o.n.
It. Arthur Jacques, Millbury' lneeina
W injuries. ,,i,,o an
E. A. Batchleder' somef'nie' a.
kle broken. ;,+o,
NJ Philip Gagmon. sherbrooke' 1nee'
nal injuries. n n
in 40: John Barrett, Manchester n n
head and breast injured: ,,ope
Nj Miss Abby Jansen, Nashua 0foA'