RAILWAY DISASTERS.
»— — MANY PASSENGERS INJURED IN CANADA. GALLANT RESCUES BY CONVICTS. [BY HLKOTIIIO TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] [PER riIESS ASSOCIATION.S (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) OTTAWA, January 19. A Canadian-Pacific (train was derailed on a brancOi line, and a number of passengers were seriously injured. A gang of convicts aboard the train were unliurfc and rendered gallant service in rescuing the passengers. One extinguished, a fire which threatened to consume a coach by piling snow on it. The passengers later petitioned the Attorney-General at Ontario, to recognise the convict gang's bravery SIXTEEN PERSONS INJURED. (Roceived This Day. 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK," January 19. Eleven passengers and nine, trainmen were injured in the derailment of an overland limited on tlhe Snltlako railroad. The disaster was due to a defective switch. LONDON PLATELAYERS KILLED. (Received Tin's Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON," January 19. An express dashod into a a;ang of platelayers at Battersca, "killing three and injuring two.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 January 1911, Page 3
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152RAILWAY DISASTERS. Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 January 1911, Page 3
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