RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
CABLE NEWS.
United Press lAssociation—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. I
FIVE PERSONS KILLED. TKAIN DASHES INTO A STATION. DAMAGE AMOUNTS TO 100,000 DOLLARS. Received March 18, 9.35 p.m. OTTAWA, March 18. A railway accident resulting in the loss of life is reported from Montreal. The Canadian-Pacific Railway Company's express from Boston, travelling at the rate of 40 miles an hour, dashed into the Windsor street station at Montreal, ploughed over the platform, and crashed into the ladies' waiting-room, bringing down a great pillar supporting the superstructure. The damage is estimated at 100,000 dollars. Five persons were killed, and twenty injured, all being passengers waiting on the station. The passengers in the train were unhurt. The accident was due to a boiler plug of the engine blowing out, the driver and firemen being thrown out, there being in consequence no one aboard to stop the train.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3141, 19 March 1909, Page 5
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146RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3141, 19 March 1909, Page 5
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