Wreck Scene Detailed After Deadly Train Collision
Passengers in three cars of the Montreal Express were asleep when a baggage car telescoped the second class car, killing or injuring many. Rescue crews from West Lebanon and Concord rushed to the scene as the wreckage trapped and injured dozens, with some survivors describing the horror and heroes who aided the victims.
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Sherbrooke
P. Q
Frank O. Brown
John Callanan
West Canaan
Montreal Express
Sloane
New England Telephone Company
Lebanon
M. SS. Woodman
West Lebanon
Concord
Canaan
White Fiver Junction
Hanover
Mary Hitchcock Hospital
Dartmouth College
White River Junction
Claremont Junction
Quebec
Blackwater River
Engineer Callahan
The
Express
Frank B. Heath
Post
Columbus Wins Third Straight A A Baseball Pennant
Columbus defeated Louisville 10 to 4 to capture the American Association pennant in the first game. This marks the third consecutive championship for Columbus in the association.
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Columbus
Columbus Today
American Association of Baseball Clubs
Louisville
Malden Doctor Rides Out Quebec Train Wreck
George B. Sutherland a Maplewood druggist and his wife escaped a deadly Quebec train wreck. Sutherland suffered a wrenched neck and bruises after waking to the crash in a Pullman as the trip from Quebec ended in disaster. Helpers carried lanterns and flagmen to summon aid as wreckage filled the landscape near the rails.
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Malden
George B. Sutherland
Maplewood
Fairview Terrace
Suthirland
Quebec
Mr. Sutherland
Stevens Body Identified In Boston Transit Death
H D Stevens of Hartford Vermont was identified by the Post as the man found in Boston. He carried a card for his sister in law Miss Effie Sample of Pembroke Street and sought his ailing wife staying with her sister at 267 Massachusetts Avenue. His wife’s condition is critical and relatives fear shocking news. His parents live in Musquodoboit Harbour Nova Scotia, and he has a brother Arthur Stevens in Cambridge.
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Effie Sample
Pembroke Street
Boston
Massachusetts Avenue
Musquodobit Harbor
Nova Scotia
Arthur Stevens
Cambridge
Lebanon tailor killed in wreck identified as Clarkson
Lebanon New Hampshire September 15. One of the unidentified dead in the wreck at Canaan is believed to be Richard F Clarkson of Lebanon a merchant tailor and prominent Knights of Pythias member Clarkson boarded the ill fated train at Rees intending to visit his brother in Portsmouth New Hampshire
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Lebanon
N. H
Canaan
Richard F. Clarkson
The
Knights of Pythias, Jr
Clarkson
Rees
Portsmouth
Terrifying Express Disaster Descriptions Reach Hanover Scene
Eyewitness Andrew Haskell reports a crazed woman with a dead baby beside her as a rail crash left 16 dead and many injured. The injured were rushed to Hanover and Dartmouth Hospital while victims were moved to Concord and Franklin for further handling.
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Andrew Haskell
Hanover
Mr. Briggs
Han«over
N. H
Margaret Hitchcock
Dartmouth College
Concord
Franklin
Claremont
Victim Well Known Somerville Woman Dies in Wreck
Mrs. Luthera C. Blake, 52, of 54 Hawthorne Street West Somerville, was killed in the Canaan accident. Her nephew Ernest Albert Batchelder 29 on the dangerous list and not expected to survive, also involved. Mrs Blake had summered in Corinth Vermont and was active in Rebekah Lodge. Batchelder worked as a driver for American Express and lived with his aunt.
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Luthera C. Blake
Canaan
Hawthorne Street
West Somerville
Ernest Albert Batchelder
Corinth
Bradford
Vermont
Blake
Massachusetts
Remarkable Escape of the Train Crew
White River Junction report details four express train crew members escaping unharmed after brakes failed and a collision occurred. Conductor F O Brown Baggageman Clarence Littlefield Brakemen P H Pike and Lee Underhill all survived with minor injuries while a barber from Franklin Falls and companions also escaped. Clergyman Rev C C Delaney aided victims, calming cries as rescue worked progressed. Operator Ben Adams alerted line by telegraph within minutes of the wreck.
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White River Junction
F. O. Brown
Concord
Clarence Littlefield
Danbury
P. H. Pike
Lee Underhill
George Carrignan
Franklin Falls
N. H
Alfred Beauclare
Wifrid Morin
Carrignan
C. C. Delaney
Callahan-A-Whiskey offers best value in New England
The ad promotes Callahan-A-Whiskey as a superior value with four quarts of pure whiskey for three dollars prepaid to any New England address. It compares prices to local bars and urges buyers to use mail order for instant delivery and satisfaction.
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New England
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Bethel
E. F. Griggs
James Shapleigh
G. H. Folger
H. P. Davis
Bellows Falls
Iconclad
Rochester
Associated
Associated Sunday Magazines
United States
Madison Avenue
New York
Boston Post
Chicago Record-Herald
St. Louis Republic
New York Tribune
Philadelphia Press
Washington Star
Pittsburg Post
Minneapolis Journal
Denver News-Times
Chickering
G. B. Sutherland
soMonest
N&g
Stevens
H. D. Stevens
Hartford
Somerville
E. A. Batchelder
Father Delaney
Ben F. Adams
West Lebanon Yard House
Greater
Home Furnishers Ass’n
Mass
Lafayette Square
Cambridgeport
John F. Callahan & Co
Federal Street
Winchester
Smith & Thayer Co
Boston, Mass
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