TRAIN RUNS AMOK.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 460, 19 March 1909, Page 5

TRAIN RUNS AMOK.

FIVH DEATHS. A BLOW-OUT REMOVES ENCINE MEN. STATION SMASHED. (by telegram—niESS association—COPYßlGHT.) (Rcc. March. 18, 9.35 p.m.) Ottawa, March 18. Tho Canadian Pacific Railway Company's express from Boston, travelling iO miles an hour, dashed into the Windsor Street Station, Montreal, ploughed its way over tho platform, and crashed into the ladies' waiting room, bringing down a granite pillar supporting tho superstructure.

Five persons were killed and twenty were injured, all of whom wero waiting in the station. The passengers on the train wero unhurt. Tho damage is estimated at 100,000 dollars (£20,000).

Tho accident was caused by tho boiler plug of the engine being blown out. The driver and the fireman wero thrown out of tho engine, and there was no ouo on board to stop tho train. DEADLY ICE-CREAM. « FIFTEEN MILLION MICROBES. Im ni.iaicAi'll—l'iiESi >««acm'ioN—coi'Yiuain.l (Roc. March 19, 1.8 a.m.) Perth, March 18. In a case against two Italian ice-cream sellers, the Government Analyst gavo evidence that samples of tho ice-cream contained 15 million microbe organisms to tho cubic centimetre. Some of tho organisms would, ho added, cause peritonitis. A guinea pig inoculated therewith died in fifteen minutes.