A GALLANT DEED
DRIVER SLOWS DOWN TRAIN WITH ENGINE PLOUGHING INTO ROCK SLIDE TWO HUNDRED LIVES SAVED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, VANCOUVER, November 19. Mr J. T. O’Neill, a member of Parliament who is also a locomotive driver, stuck to the throttle today, saving the lives of 200 people aboard a Canadian Pacific transcontinental express which ploughed into a rock slide from a mountain which had fallen on the tracks near Kamloops, British Columbia. derailing the, locomotive and two coaches. Mr Robert Landsburg, the fireman, was severely scalded and Mr O’Neill was scalded about the face and had three fingers amputated. Though they saw the tracks buried ahead the driver and fireman refused to jump, winning a desperate battle to slow down the train’s speed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1938, Page 5
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124A GALLANT DEED Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1938, Page 5
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