| Show THIRTEEN KILLED INA WRECK Passenger Train at Full Speed Crashes Into the Rear End of Another An-other Section Both Trains Loaded With Pilgrims Shrieks and Grorus and Sights That Beggar Description I De-scription Quebec July DA very large pll prlmage from Sherbrooke Windsor Mills and Kchmond left the last named nam-ed town at 10 oclock last evening for the shrine of St Anne de Beaupre There were two sections of the train one running 0 few minutes behind the other The llrst section was standing at Cialgs Road station at 3 u m today taking water when the second section passing the semaphore dashed Into the rear Pullman coach of the lIst section smashing It to kindling wood and killing It Is said everybody In that car except the Pullman conductor who jumped Engineer McLeod and Fireman Perkins Per-kins of the second section were both killed I outright The Pullman coach was telescoped Into the llrstclass cars of the first section killing u number of passengers Among the killed are three priests The number of killed Is placed at thirteen and Injured at twen tylive LIST OF THE DEAD Following Is a full canceled list of the dead CHAItLES BEDART mall clerk Richmond MISS BEDART Richmond HECTOR MLEOD engineer Richmond Rich-mond RICHARD L PERKINS fireman Richmond REV F P DING AN WindsorMills MR COGAN Richmond MISS VALIN St Joseph de Levis MISS PHANEUF St Joseph de Levis Le-vis MRS J B GAYER Danville MISS DELVIOURT Sheffield AUNT of Miss Valin St Joseph de Levis JOHN OFERRELL Capleton REV J C MEItCIER WORK OF RESCUE The work of rescue was begun as soon as possible When the blinding clouds of steam had subsided the trainmen train-men and priests rallied the men together to-gether and the dead and Injured were taken from the ruins of the engine Pullman and firstclass coaches and cared for wherever temporary quarters could be found The women of the party ministered as best they could to the wants of the maimed passengers They tore off their underclothing and made bandages ban-dages for wrapping wounds and tried In the absence of surgeons to staunch the How of blood and properly cleanse the hurts A special train was soon sent to the scene and conveyed all who could be moved to Levis where they were placed in hospitals Tlie arrival of the train at Levls beggars ° beg-gars aeseHpllon The slghT of the unfortunate o un-fortunate victims as they were carried from the cars was one never to be forgotten for-gotten The poor victims were covered with blood and their clothing was torn to shreds The second person taken from the train was Rev Dr Dlngan cure of St Georges Windsor who died just as he was carried from the cars The scene In the hospital after arrival of the wounded was a sad one The unfortunate pilgrims occupied beds In the different wards of the hospital and were attended by physicians of Levis and Quebec and nuns and ladles of Levis The cries of some of the wounded were fearful as they were attended at-tended by the physicians Coroner Bellow of Quebec crossed to Lovls to hold an Inquest this afternoon when the bodies of all those killed arrive ar-rive It Is hard to say where the blame for the accident rests It has been suggested that Engineer McLeod might have dozed off to sleep and thus missed miss-ed seeing the semaphore A strict investigation in-vestigation will be held at once to determine de-termine where the responsibility rests A FRIGHTFUL WRECK The wreck was a frightful one The engine of the colliding tialn seemed to rush up then turned completely over pinning Engineer McLeod underneath The rest of the second train was derailed de-railed and badly smashed up Instantly after the crash the air was filled with the shrieks and groans of the Injured and Imprisoned passengers The few train hands and station employees em-ployees on the spot set to work manfully man-fully and extricated the passengers as quickly as possible Thirteen dead were taken from the wreckage N J Quinlan the Grand Trunk passenger pas-senger agent who was on the train Is not seriously wounded In conversation conversa-tion with an Associated Press correspondent cor-respondent he said he could not see how he escaped death as the Pullman car he wan In was completely shivered Into splinters P Mcllugh one of the Injured said lie was sitting In the car In front of the Pullman when the accident occurred occur-red Ho saw the locomotive of the pecond train coining through his car nnd he was only saved by a friend named Simon White |
