FLOOD DISASTERS
CANADIAN TRAIN PLUNGES INTO CULVERT ENGINEER & FIREMAN KILLED MOTHER & FIVE CHILDREN SWEPT FROM HOUSE. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) Copyright. (Recd This Day, 9.25 a.m.) PORT NEUF (Quebec), Sept. 1. An engineer and a fireman were killed and several persons were injured when an overnight Canadian-Pacific Railway train plunged into an open culvert. The engine, two baggage cars and a day coach were derailed. A terrific storm had flooded the district and this is making the work of rescuers most difficult. The wreck occurred less than an hour before the train was due at Quebec. The Port Neuf River, which was swollen by rain, washed out a farm house, drowning a mother and five of her ten children. APARTMENT HOUSE BURIED. ONE KILLED AND TEN INJURED. (Recd This Day, 9.25 a.m.) QUEBEC, September 1. A landslide St. Gregoire during a storm buried a family apartment house. One person was killed, ten were injured and forty are missing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1938, Page 5
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