RAILWAY SMASH
ON CANADIAN ARMAMENT RESERVE FAST TRAIN RUNS INTO ANOTHER. SEVERAL BELIEVED KILLED AND MANY INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 9 a.m.) WINDHAM (Ont.), March 18. A commuter train, which daily carries 60C men constructing the Government’s huge arsenal project at Ravenna, was wrecked this morning. The Portage County Sheriff said the wreck occurred within a 24,0C0-acre reservation. Al! available ambulances were despatched to bring in injured workers. The Ravenna armament works, estimated to cost 15,000,000 dollars, were begun last September. The works are expected to produce a million rounds of shells a month. More than 100 miles , of railroad tracks are being laid within the armament reservation, forty miles of which have already been completed. A fast Erie train crashed into the rear of the commuter train and five commuter coaches and ten freight cars were derailed. It is regarded as significant that the wreck occurred only 36 hours after the derailment in the Pennsylvania train crash at Baden. Forty defence workers were seriously injured and 126 less seriously. It is believed that several were killed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1941, Page 5
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180RAILWAY SMASH Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1941, Page 5
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