RAILWAY DISASTERS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1031, 21 January 1911, Page 7

RAILWAY DISASTERS.

•CALLANT CONVICTS. RESCUE PASSENGERS AND EXTINQUISH FIRE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Ottawa, January 19. A Canadian-Pacific Railroad Company's train was derailed on the Owen Sound (Ontario) branch'line. A number of persons were seriously injured. A gang of convicts aboard the train cscaped unhurt. .They rendered gallant service in rescuing passengers: Olio extinguished a fire that threatened to consume a coach by piling snow on it. The passengers later petitioned the At-torney-General of Ontario to recognise tho convict gang's bravery. Eleven passengers and five trainmen wero injured. PLATELAYERS KILLED. London, January 19. . An express train dashed into a gang of platelayers at Battersea. Three of the moil wcro'killed and two injured. AN EXPRESS DERAILED. New York, January 30. The "Overland Limited," one of tho fast espresses running. daily between San Francisco and Omaha, has been derailed on tho Salt Lake railroad. The accident ivas duo to a defective switch. Tho Salt Lake railroad is usually known as the "Lucin cW-off," the route of tlio Southern Pacific lino being diverted'at Lucin, and crossing over tho shallow waters of 'the Salt Lake, instead of going around. The earth and trestle.work across the lake is 26 miles'in length.