Show AWFUL DISASTER JN IN VERMONT twenty four killed and many injured in ra iway accident white kiver river junction vermont A fearful headon head on collision between the southbound quebec express and a northbound freight on the concord dl di vision of the boston maine railway occurred four miles norta of canaan station early sunday due to a mistake in train dispatchers orders and from a demolished passenger coach there were taken out twenty four dead and dying and twenty seven passengers most of them seriously wounded nearly all those who were in the death car were ere returning from a fair at sherbrooke quebec sixty 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 station receiving according to the of the division a copy of a telegraph order from the train ds at concord which confused contused the train numbers 30 and 34 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 |