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Show AWFUL DISASTER IN VERMONT Twenty-four Killed and Many Injured In Railway Accident. White Illver Junction, Vermont. A fearful head-on collision between the southbound Quebec exprefn and r northbound freight on tho Concord h; tlslon of tho Poston &. Milne rallv.n occurred four njlles north of Canaa-. station early Sunday, due to a mistake In train dispatchers' orders, nnd from a demolished passenger coarh thero wore taken out twenty-four dead and dying, and twenty-soven pas3eng3r most of them seriously wounded Nearly nil those who were in the death car were returning front a fair a Sherbrooks, Quebec, sixty miles north The conductor of the ft eight t nn was given to undistaud that bo luM plenty of time to reuch a siding b the night operator at Canaan station, receiving, accrdln? to the suprrln tendent of the dlWslou, a copv o' telegraph order from the train di--patcher at Concord, which confused 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 other's headlight until It was too late |