Garland Globe | 1907-09-28 | Page 2 | Awful Disaster in Vermont

AWFUL DISASTER IN VERMONT. Twenty-four Killed and Many Injured In Railway Accident. White River Junction, Vermont A fearful hend-on collision between tho southbound Quebec express nnd :i northbound freight on tho Concord division di-vision of the Boston & Maine railway occurred four miles north of Cnnnnn station enrly Sunday, due to n mistake In train dispatchers' orders, und from n demolished passenger roach thero woro tnken 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 returning from a fair at Sherbrooko.' Quebec, sixty miles north. The conductor or tho freight train was given to understand that he had plenty or time to reach n siding 1 the night operator at Canaan station, receiving, nccordlng to tho superintendent superin-tendent of tho division, n copy or a telegraph ordor from tho truln dispatcher dis-patcher nt Concord, which confused tho train numbers, 30 nud 34. The wreck occurred Just nrter tho express hnd rounded Into n straight stretch or track, but owing to the early morning mist, neither engineer saw the other's headlight until U was too late.