The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-10-23
HEAD On COLLISION
SPLITS CROWDED TRAIN
Quebec Express Wrecked Near
Canaan Station, N. II.
OVER so KILLED AND WOUNDED

Night Operator. Who Became Con-
fused and Wrote mo. 80" in
Place of NO. 81" Blamed For
the Disaster.
White River Junction. Vt.-P!ung-
ing into each other at forty miles an
hour, the Boston and Maine Rail-
roads Quebec express and a freight
train at daybreak met in a crash that
killed twenty-five persons and injured
more than thirty. Twenty-seven OF
the wounded were in such dangerous
condition that they were rushed to
the hospital at Hanover after being
brought to this town. Many Of those
killed were women and several were
children. The express was running
south with a full load OF Monday
makers returning from a fair IN Sner-
brooke, Quebec. Most OF the victims
were Americans, a few being an
adams on their way to points IN this
State and New Hampshire. None
had a chance of escape. The head
on collision drove the baggage car
of the express back through @ pas
senger coach carrying half a hundred
persons.
Most shocking of all the tragedies
was that in which Benjamin Briggs,
who has a prosperous farm near west
Canaan, was an actor. Briggs was
one of the first of the farmers to go
to the rescue. He helped to AXE sew
eral bodies and half a dozen injured
persons out of the wreck in the first
two hours he was on the spot. Then
he lifted from under a pile Of timbers
the body of q woman. AS he turned
the body to get a better hold he found
himself looking into the dead face OF
his mother. Mrs. Briggs had been
visiting friends north of this town and
was going to Boston. Her son, when
he joined the %rescuers, did not know
she had travelled as a passenger on
the wrecked train. When he recog-
nized her he swooned with her body
in his arms.
The killed are: Miss Barrett, Man
chester; Mrs. C. F. Blake, South Cor
NTH, VT; Mrs. E. T. Briggs, West Ca
naan, N. H.; Mrs. Adolph Boisvert,
Concord, N. H.; Richard F. Clarkson,
Lebanon, N. H.; J. l.. Congdon, Som
erville, Mass; John G.. Duncan, Beth.
ell, VT; Mrs. Philip Gagnon, Sher-
brooke; Clifford, infant child of Irv.
ing Clifford, Concord, n. H; Miss AL
vina Giron, Nashua; Fred NJ. Phelps.
Ochiltree, Texas; Austin Roger, Man.
chester, N. H.; Timothy Shaughnessy,
Castle Bar, Quebec; Mrs. Shaughnes-
sy; George l.. Southwick, No. s Lin.
den street, Worcester; Mrs. Annie st.
Pierre. Isle Verte, Quebec; Mrs. A. e.
Warren, Eaverhill, Mass; Mrs. Webs.
ter, a dressmaker living in Massachu-
sets.
There are seven bodies ~unidenti-
fed.
The injured are:
John Barrett, Manchester, n. H.;
head and breast injured; E. A.. Batch
elder, Somerville; ankle broken;
William Cunningham, Hamilton,
Mass; back and chest injured; Mrs.
C. A. Dewey, Manchester; right side
injured; Philip Gagnon, Sherbrooke;
internal injuries; Arthur Jacques,
Millbury, internal injuries; Miss Jen.
ME Jameson, Nashua; hip wrenched;
Miss Abby Janson, Nashua; broken
frontal bone; Miss Della Moran, Man
chester, N. H.; bruised face; Henry
Moran, Nashua; wrist bruised; Mrs.
Moran, Nashua; conclusion of head;
Miss Juno Moves, North Somerset,
VT; head and back injured; Miss
Rosa Reagan, Manchester; bruised
face; Frank Ryan, brakeman, White
River Junction; right arm bruised
and leg cut; S. Saunders, Nashua, N.
H.; left leg and wrist injured; Mrs.
S. Saunders, Nashua; head and back
injured; Mrs. C. n. Saunders,
Nashua, N. H.; scalp wounds; Miss
C. Saunders, Nashua; Commissions on
face; Miss D. Saunders, Nashua; in.
ternal injuries; Fred Saunders.
Nashua, shoulders injured; Mrs. Hes
ter Saunders, Brockton, Mass; head
and back injured; Charles St. Pierre,
Isle Verte, Quebec; internal injuries;
Miss Ella Vintumen, Lisbon, N. H.;
clavical bone broken; three children
cut and bruised not seriously.