Haverhill, New Hampshire
Train Wreck
March 20, 1908
FOUR TRAINMEN KILLED IN WRECK.
Mistake in Orders Brings Head-on Collision at
Woodsville on Boston & Maine Line--Another
Injured.
Woodsville, N. H., March 20.--Three or
four trainmen were injured and many freight cars
demolished, in a head-on collision between two
freight trains on the White Mountains division
of the Boston & Maine road, a mile and a half
south of Haverhill station, today. The extent of
the injuries of the victims is not yet known for
wires were carried down by the cars.
It was later learned the four trainmen were
killed. They were Elmer
E. [illegible - might be Cross or
Gross] and Guy
[illegible - might be Dow] of Woodsville,
engineers; and Fred A.
Brown of Concord and
Allan T. Davis
of Woodsville, firemen.
Wilfred Noonan of Woodsville, a
brakeman, was seriously injured. It is alleged
some mistake in the dispatch or receipt of train
orders was responsible for the wreck. The trains
met on a curve and neither engine crew had time
to jump. The tracks will be blocked all day.
Fitchburg Daily Sentinel, Fitchburg, MA 20
Mar 1908
Transcribed by Helen
Coughlin. Thank you, Helen!
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