CABLE NEWS
A CANADIAN RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
TRAIN DASHES i-.-.O WAITING-
ROOM. FIVE PERSONS KILLED. (Received March IS, 9.35 p.m.) United Press Association —Copyright. OTTAWA, March 18. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company’s express from Boston, travelling 40 miles an fiour, dashed into the Windsor Street station at. Montreal, ploughed over the platform and crashed into the lacltes’ waiting-room, bringing down the granite pillars supporting tlie superstructure. The damage ’amounts to 100,000 dollars. Five persons were killed and twenty injured, all persons waiting at the station. Tlie pasesngers were unhurt. The accident was due to the boiler-plug of tlie engine being blown out-. Tlie drivers and firemen were thrown out, and no one was aboard to stop the train. .
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2454, 19 March 1909, Page 5
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117CABLE NEWS A CANADIAN RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2454, 19 March 1909, Page 5
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