Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1904 — NINE DIE IN A WRECK [ARTICLE]

NINE DIE IN A WRECK

OollUlon on the Onnd Trunk Railway at Richmond, Que. Twenty-Three Other* Are Severely Injured. Montreal, Sept. 1. Nine persons vrers killed and twenty-three others injured in a head-on collision on the Grand Trunk railway near Richmond, Que. The trains involved were a special excursion from Montreal bound for Sherbrooke, and passenger train No. 5, running between Island Pond, Vermont and Montreal. The collision, it is alleged, was due to neglect of orders on the part of the train crew of the excursion train, which left Richmond without awaiting the arrival of the passenger train. Following is the official list of th® dead: J. R. Blanchett, M. P.. St. Hyacinthe; Fred Bowring, South Durham; T. H. Ilackett, Montreal; unknown man from Beloell, P. Q.; W. T. Mountain. Montreal;boy named Dubdette, St. Theodore de Acton; Chaa. A. Samard, St. Hyacinthe; A. Theodor® Richard, Quebec. The excursion train carried about L--000 persons bound for the exhibition at Sherbrooke. In the collision both engines were locked firmly together. The baggage car of the excursion train was dropped on top of the car following it, a smoker, and it was in these two cars that the greater number of fatalities occurred.