The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1907-09-20
WRECK
KILLS "a
QUEBEC EXPRESS COL
LIDES WITH FREIGHT.
FOUR MILES NORTH OF CANAAN
STATION IN NEW HAMP-
SHIRE.

White River Junction, VT. Sept.16.
A fearful head-on collision between
the southbound Quebec express and
northbound freight train on the Con-
cord division of the Boston & Maine
railway occurred four miles north OF
Canaan station early yesterday. due to
a mistake in train dispatcher's orders,
and from "a demolished passenger
coach there were taken out "a dead
and dying and 81 other passengers,
most of them seriously wounded.
Nearly all of those who were in the
death car were returning from a fair
at 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, a copy of telegraph
order from the train dispatcher at
Concord, which confused the trains
numbers 80 and "a.
The wreck occurred just after the
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. NJ,
Fred M. Petts, Ochiltree, Texas.
| Mrs. A. r. Warren, Haverhill, Mass
Mrs. F. c. Blake, South Corinth, VT
Mrs. Margaret Largy, Manchester
N. H.
Miss Barrett, Manchester.
Mrs. Philip Gagon, Sherbrooke
Quebec.
Miss Alvina Garon, Nassau.
Mrs. Webster, a dressmaker living
in Massachusetts. .
! J. J. Concroth, Somerville, Mass.
Infant child of Irving Clifford, Con
cord.
I Mrs. E. T. Briggs, West Canaan. N
H.
| John G. Duncan, Bethel, vt.
The unidentified include a boy
years of age and man 40 years old
a woman of SO years, another Of S.
a man of IS years and four others
Twenty-Five Of the bodies were re
moved to Concord during the night.
The Train Was Late.
The passenger train had left her
bound for Concord about an hour late
The track to the south is a single on
to Franklin, so miles distant, with
few sidings. 1t abounds in curves
while the greatest part of it fror
Canaan is down grade. The freigh
train pulled out of a siding som
miles to the south and started up tn
track for this place at o'clock.
The train dispatcher's sheet at Coz
cord is declared to show that tn
freight crew disobeyed orders in d.
ing so. There are no signals on tn
;, road and the trains are directed frol
station to station. Going north it
a long, straight track from Canaa
, to the curve where the accident hal
pened and the freight was maxim
good time when the passenger trai
came around the curve. It is est
mated both trains were going at
speed of from 80 to 40 miles an hou
There was time to put ION the brake
; and both engine crews jumped an
escaped injury.
Early in the afternoon, although ]
of the 80 freight cars which had cor
posed that train were derailed, an
the track was torn up for a quartz
Of a mile, the work of rescue had bee
! completed, and it became known Thu
!. the number of dead was "a. Twent
. two of them were taken by train
Concord, and two were sent to tn
place.
Before the removal Of the bodies !
! had been identified.