This is an old message, so don't know if you already have the info, but here is what I found:
It looks like the accident happened in April, not January.

WINNIPEG FREE PRESS APRIL 12 1907

HARROWING DETAILS OF CHAPLEAU WRECK
Fort William and Port Arthur Hospitals Filled With Injured,
Among Them Several Winnipeggers—Eye Witnesses
Give Graphic Description of Terrible Scenes—Compelled
to Stand By and Watch Fellow Passengers
Burned to Death—Terrible Plight of Woman and Two
Children—Overturned Cars a Mass of Flames Within
a Few Minutes of the Accident—The Dead and Injured.
Port Arthur, Ont. April 11.—The arrival of the train
from the east, carrying the passengers who were in the
wreck of No. 1 last night near Chapleau, brought the first
facts regarding the most terrible accident which has ever
occurred on the C. P. R. The accident occurred at Brunei-,
twenty miles west of Chapleau, when six cars left the
track. Within five minutes after the accident the cars
were a mass of flames, and despite the efforts of the crew
and passengers from the other cars a number of lives were
.lost, variously estimated at from eight to fourteen. A total
of thirty-four sustained injuries of various kinds, a few
of which are of a rather serious nature, but the majority
escaped with but slight bruises. Eight of the injured were
brought to the hospital here, and a number were taken to
the Fort William hospital.

THE DEAD

G. GUILDING, wife and two children, Plaistow, Eng.
C. GUIILDING, of the same place; a brother.
MRS. R. B. CHAMPION and child, Kingston-on-the-
Thames, for Brandon.
MRS. C. .R. DAVIDSON and son, from York Eng., to
EXSHAW. ALBERTA
WINNIFRED AND SUSAN HORTON, from Charing Heath, Kent, Eng. to Brandon
WM. DAY from Kensington, Eng. for Winnipeg
An unknown English woman and two children.

THE INJURED.
LOUIS G-ILLETTE, London, Eng., hands cut slightly.
\VM. WILLIAMSON, Brandon, Man., both hands
burned and cut. .
JOS. GIBSON, Salisbury, Eng., back sprained
N. KOUMISS, Fort William, scalp cut and both hands
CHAS. COLEMAN, Portsmouth, Eng., head, face
and hands burned, back strained (serious).
ALPHONSE FERLADE, Ste. Marie Beauce, Que.,
fractured metacarpal bones.
j ARCHIBALD STLJTSON, Cheltenham, Eng., wrist bruised.
S. KNIGHT, Cambridge, Eng., leg slightly bruised. ,
ERNEST KNIGHT, Cambridge, Eng., wound over eye and ear cut.
HARRY WILLIAMS, Manchester Eng. wrist cut
JOHN F. AUBISTER, Orkney Island, face and both hands severely burned.
JOSEPH TOWNSEND, Scotland, going to Winnipeg, left wrist jammed
ARTHUR MCCRAY, Hausland, going to Moose Jaw, slight cut on finger.
PATRICK HARVEY, Wigland, Scotland, hand cut
PETER BUEROF, Winnipeg, leg slightly bruised
HERBERT JACOB, Athens, Ont. nose cut
A. DECHAISSE, Woonsocket, R.I, generally shaken up
GEORGE LATOUGHE, Winnipeg, scalp wound.
GEORGE HICKS, Athens, Ont, leg bruised.
ED COLLIER, West Shefford, Que,, side injured and head bruised
M C SAVAGE, West Shefford, Que., both hands burned
FRANK SCHMIDT, Winnipeg, foot bruised
JOHN URRY, London, Eng., slight scalp wound.
RODERICK DAVIDSON, Exshaw, Alta., hand slightly cut
W D WHITE,, Whiteside, Ont., leg slightly cut.
A C WHITE, Whiteside, Ont., cut over eyes.
J. T. TURNER, Sault Ste, Marie, Ont., back and hip bruised
LAWRENCE GRIFFIN, Carleton, N. B., wounds on hands
JAMES CLARK, Carleton, NB, hip slightly bruised.
CLARENCE SPROULE New Glasgow, NB, two scalp wounds
S B ROSSITER, Winnipeg Hotel, scalp wound
H. SAUNDERS, Schreiber, Ont., two small cuts on back of hands.
R. GAMBLE, Fort William, hand cut and hip bruised

Fort William, Ont., April 11
Mr. H.M. Beach of Ottawa described some of the tragic incidents
at the ending of the Chapleau catastrophe. One poor fellow was
pinned by the legs under the tourist car, and three of his
companions made heroic efforts to release him. The fierce
devouring flames swept nearer and nearer, scorching the men's
clothes and burning their hands and faces. The victim's cries
were heartrending: "For God's sakes boys, don't leave me, make
one more try to save me", he shrieked. The flames, however,
were unbearable, and realizing any further attempt to save their friend
would be useless, the men reluctantly jumped out of the range of the fire.

Women and Children Burned.

A woman with two small children
was shut up in even a worse plight,
and their heartrending cries were fearful
and all three were consumed. The
poor half-demented father picked up
a little rag doll which had belonged to his
child and sobbingly declared that this was
all was left him of his family.
Mr. Beach says that the track, was
so narrow at the point where the cans
fell over,, that a small handbarrow would
have gone over the embankment, and declares
that the company should be made to'' build up' the track
to a greater width. "Had the cars only
fallen over, not a life would have been
lost, but on falling down the ten-foot
embankment the fire started, and In
an Incredibly short period of time the
whole of the overturned cars was a
mass of flames.
Terrible Scenes.
Agnes Carleton, travelling from Sudbury
to Kenora, declares the scenes
wore appalling. "I will never think of
them without a shudder. The cries of
the little children were terrible, and
the most hard-hearted person In the
world would have been shocked. Mothers
were crying for their children,
und children sobbing for their parents,
and the scene was altogether too terrible
to describe."
Miss Sylvie Gresson related her experience.
She was sitting talking to
two friends, who were both killed, but
a few minutes before the tragic affair
and had got up to go back to her
own seat, when there came a crash.
Everything was In confusion, and suddenly she
experienced a sensation like
the car was sliding down hill.
When the car came to the bottom she
able to get out through a broken

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HARROWING DETAILS
OF CHAPLEAU WRECK

window. Having saved a little child,
she came back to tender what help
she could, when a terrific explosion
occurred and the car was in a few
moments enveloped in flames
Everyone on board stated that the
wreck was of the most appalling character,
and strong men even appear
unequal to the task of speaking about
It in measured terms.
Graphic Description.
Ottawa, April 11.—One of the first
eye-witnesses of the wreck to reach
Ottawa was Mr. J. D. Campbell,
a mail clerk on the east-bound train, which
reached the scene of the disaster shortly
after the occurrence. "It was a
fearful sight," said Mr. Campbell, as
he spoke of the accident. "The train
was No. 1, going west and when Just
22 miles out of Chapleau, struck, it is
thought, a spread rail. The mall car
stuck to the engine, but the baggage
car turned over and over down the
embankment to the frozen lake, pulling
I four other cars after It. It was just
at noon, and the forward cars were
packed with Immigrants cooking their
dinner. The stoves set fire to the
debris Immediately, and fifteen are believed
to have perished.

Lost His Family.

"One man was nearly frantic. He
had lost his wife, two children and a
blind brother. In another family one
little girl alone survived. Nearly
100 were Injured, and everyone I saw
battered and covered with blood, lite
porters pulled out mattresses, and the
wounded were laid in long rows along
the track, and tended as best they
might be by fellow-passengers until
doctors could be secured from Chapeau.
It took some time, as they had
to telegraph by way of Chicago. The
auxiliary then came up from Chapleau.
cleared the line and hauled back the
six remaining cars and all the passengers.
Here they were joined by the two remaining
sections of the train and the town was filled.
J J Nevins of Ottawa, the mail clerk on the wrecked train
told me he was in his car at the time and witnessed the
disaster. It seemed a miracle to him that the train crew
are not killed, as they were in the baggage car which was filled with
baggage.

Winnipeg people safe

J P Alexander, M.P.P. at Turtle
Mountain a quarter of a century ago,
and who later sat for Deloraine, had a
daughter and her child on the number 1.
With horror Mr. Alexander read the
account of the terrible fatality and waited in fear
for the names of the victims, but before the fuller
news came Mr. Alexander received a wire from his
wife saying she and her child were both safe.
" A lucky escape for us all", said the old-timer to the Free
Press reporter. "I feel like a lad again".

Army Immigrants

The majority of the passengers with the train were British
immigrants ex-SS Kensington, who left Halifax 160 in number
on Monday. Adjt. Wakefield of the Salvation Army, who is
one of the officers in charge of immigration in this city, states
that some twenty-seven adult persons who are coming to Canada
under the auspices of the army, were undoubtedly on board the
wrecked train. He received a telegram from Halifax, stating that
they had left that point on the 8th. The dispatch did not contain
the names of the party. He was most anxious in regard to the welfare
of the people, and said it was most possible that some of the victims were members
of the army on the way to the west. The Kensington is not a chartered army boat
and the Salvationists were members of a party in charge of an officer who accompanied them
to Halifax, where they were taken over by Immigration authorities.
Captain Stephens of the Church Army said that he was expecting a party of eleven people
from the SS Kensington, and that in all probability there were on board the wrecked train.
Their names however do not appear on the list of person's missing received this morning from the
C.P.R.