"LIKE RATS IN A TRAP."
IMMIGRANT TRAIN DISASTER. By IWesraph—Press Association— Copyright Ottawa, June 26. Owing to the rails "spreading," ail immigrant train was wrecked, falling into the Ottawa River. No bodies have yet been recovered, but it is believed that fifteen persons have been drowned. A DIVER TO THE RESCUE. Ottawa, June 26. Several immigrants escaped by breaking the windows'of the submerged cars in the wrecked train. Wallace, a Scottish diver, got through the glass and reached the surface, but the others in his compartment were drowned like rats in a trap. Wallace rescued two boys. A woman tried to save her baby, but wes drowned.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1787, 27 June 1913, Page 7
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