MANY LIVES LOST.
CARRIAGES FALL IN ICE-BOUND RIVER.
7- FOETT-EIGHT, KILLED OB : ;/ : ..'7 ; 7DEOWED. ':•■ ' ..- By Toleeraph—Press ABBOclation-Copyrltrht. "'■!"'■,. Ottawa, January 23. A train.at Sudbury (in the provinco of Ontario; .a ; centre of, nickoV and copper mines), was derailed, and 'struck .tho Spanish'Eiver bridge, several cars.plunging ■ into: the river, whoro tho ico ; was twelve '■ inches' thick. Forty-oight persons aro roportcd to .have been .killed, or drowned. ... 7:-7 •■'.■' '.i.'■•.'••■'' : HEROISM OF AGUARD. ■••■■" ; ' .BLIZZAED, FEOST,: AND ; iTEE. ; ; (Eec.. January 24, 10.55 p.m.), . '.'■'",■'•"-' ■'.'. .Ottawa, January 2V ; '■■' Jlo train which. J came to grief at Sudbury was an express. ■. : 7'A : first-class carriago and a ,dining-car. plunged 30 feet intb.tho river.: The second-class cars crashed into, tho stone abutment of the. bridge. 'Twenty persons were killed-in tnis way. . . ; ' -' Reynolds, •' the guard, was lunching in the 7 dining-car . when . the disaster occurred! : The car: fell into the river, but. 1 Eoynolds ■;dived out .'while it was ■ sinking.' ■>. ■'■•■■ '■'■''!'" .'."'■,-.."''.".":'■':.■- '■•; "-', '; He : 6caled : the car and;, assisted, the' smaller .passengers to- escape through the ventilators. He then,smashed a. holo in the roof witn an .axe,. enabling seven ;persons! to" ; escape. The • car. finally caught ' .7.'■•..' ■ ■.', 77 7 "'■.'■'"'" "'7-7
■ A blizzard has proyented tha recovery of/tte. bodies; ■■:'. Thetemperature .is; below zero.'' ". ■■'• : v ? : '■'-.'■ '' r " ' ~lt is estimated.that from4o to 70 .have' been killed.: : ~ ..';' |, ; ■ : '. ; ''. A PREMATURE EXPLOSION. ';■ '.•'.■', ,; : ..' FI]pp!EN:DEATHS. "i By Telegraph—Presß.Acsociation-GoDyririit '~' New, York, January 23. - : . During blasting'operations :in <a tunnel connected! with the aqueduct. at' Fishkill, on/the .'left: bank 'of .'tho: Hudson Eiver/ a premature explosion' killed fifteen men. \ The disaster iis attributed to,a workman stumbling with, a'lighted torch. .;..;•; W BUILDING COLLAPSES ON:TRAIN. -lv '-0 : 'SIX;FATALITIES:; : ;C -: ;-;:;, ■■:,': Brussels, January. 23.:';. , A tmldiig at Charleroi; the coal-mining centre-in Belgium, collapsed upon a passing' train,';,',' ''■-■■>'.■'■? ■':■;] .';:■'':'" : ■ Six parsons were KUed..y. ; ...;... ,7' ..'•■
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 724, 25 January 1910, Page 7
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283MANY LIVES LOST. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 724, 25 January 1910, Page 7
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