Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-09-20
FATAL TRAIN Wreck
TWENT-FOUR PERSONS KILLED
and MANY INJURED.
Quebec Express collides With Bos-
ton G. Maine Freight-Due to Mis-
take in Train Dispatcher's Orders
Occurred in Early Morning Hour
During Heavy Mist.

White River Junction, VT, Septic.
"A fearful head-on collision between
the southbound Quebec express and a
northbound freight train on the Con
cord division of the Boston & Maine
railway occurred four miles north of
Canaan station early yesterday, due to
mistake in train dispatcher's orders,
and from demolished passenger
coach there were taken out "a dead
and dying and q 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, copy of a 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 6
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.
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.
Mrs. E. T. Briggs, West Canaan, N.
H.
John G. Duncan, Bethel, VT.
The unidentified include a boy 4
years of age and a man 40 years old,
4 woman of SO years, another of SIS,
l man of 35 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 here
pound for Concord about an hour late. L
The track to the south is a single one {
o Franklin, so miles distant, with a
eW sidings. It abounds in curves, Z
while the greatest part of it from I
canaan is down grade. The freight {
rain pulled out of a siding some I
niles to the south and started up the I
rack for this place at O'Clock. I
The train dispatcher's sheet at Con- ]
ord is declared to show that the {
reight crew disobeyed orders in do {
ng SO. There are no signals on the c
DAD and the trains are directed from t
tation to station. Going north it is
long, straight track from Canaan I
the curve where the accident hap
ened and the freight was making I
God time when the passenger train
anne around the curve. It is esti-
lated both trains were going at e
peed of from 80 to 40 miles an hour. il
here was time to put on the brakes e
nd both engine crews jumped and I
scaped injury. S
Early in the afternoon, although 10 s
the 80 freight cars which had com S
osed that train were deraiIed, and Ii
he track was torn up for a quarter n
mile, the work of rescue had been I
ompleted, and it became known that 1
lie number of dead was "a. Twenty
NO of them were taken by train to
oncord, and two were sent to this
lace. s
Before the removal of the bodies IA h
ad been identified. e.
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