SHOCKING SMASH.
QUEBEC CROSSING HORROR. | - • QUEBEC, August IG. A message from Louisville, Quebec, states that a freight train cut through a truck containing 40 men at a road crossing on Friday night. Seventeen of the men were killed outright and five others died in hospital, where six remain injured. The victims were returning from a provincial election meeting. The wreckage of the truck, which was dragged three-quarters of a mile along the track, caught fire and three of the men were burnt to death. | Eye-witnesses state that four other ' cars had been stopped for the train to pass. Edward Houle, driver of the truck, ignored warning cries and drove his vehicle into the path of the train. He j was among those killed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 194, 17 August 1936, Page 7
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