TRAIN SMASH
OX CANADIAN RAILWAY.
i United Press Association--By Electric
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(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) OTTAWA, June 27) i
A message from Toronto states: Four persons were killed and twelve injured wnen a Canadian National Railways train, No. 4, Winnipeg to Toronto, was derailed near Capreol (Ontario) on. Thursday night by a wash-out, as a result of unprecedented flood conditions. Tourist and colonist coaches plunged into the Vermillion, river. Four or the dead are children, who were travelling from Saskatown to Toronto with their mother, Mrs A. Nedderburn, who was injured. ■ A later casualty list shows twentyone were in.iured.
ANOTHER, SMASH.
OTTAWA, June 27
The fireman of a freight train, No 401, from North Bay, was killed when the train, ran into ' another wash-out sixteen miles from Capreol.
(Six trespassers, presumably, .riding on the train killed. They haye not been identified. 1-.
The total dead in the two wrecks are eleven.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1930, Page 5
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