STORM LEAVES HEAVY TOLL IN CANADA
Serious Mishaps to Trains. » MANY PERSONS KILLED. Toronto. Ontario, June 27 Four persons were killed and 12 injured in a Canadian National Railways train travelling from 'Winnipeg to Toronto, which was derailed near Capreol, Ontario, last evening by a wash-out as the result of an unprecedented flood. The tourist and colonist coaches plunged into the Vermillion River. The four who are dead are children who were travelling from Saskatoon to Toronto. The latest check-up shows that 21 were injured. The fireman of the freight train No. 401 from Northbay was killed when the train rain into another wash-out 16 miles from Capreol. Six trespassers, presumably riding the freight train, were killed. They have not been identified. The total deaths in the two wrecks has reached 11. "The toll of a terrific thunderstorm in eastern Newfoundland on Thursday reached 11 lives.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 10415, 30 June 1930, Page 3
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