TWO TRAIN WRECKS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 162, 28 June 1930, Page 5

TWO TRAIN WRECKS

11 LIVES LOST IN CANADA. (United Press Association—By CableCopyright.] (Received 28, 9.15 a.m.) Ottawa, June 27. A message from Toronto states that 4 were killed and 12 injured when the Canadian National Railways train, No. 4, from Winnipeg to Toronto, was derailed near Capreol (Ontario), on Thursday night, by a washout, the result of unpredecented flood conditions. The tourist and colonist coaches were phhiged into a river. Four of the dead are children of different families who were travelling from Saskaton to Toronto with their mothers. Later: The casualty list shows that 21 were injured. The fireman of freight train No. 401, from North Bay, was killed when the train ran into another washout 16 miles from Capreol. Six trespassers presumably riding on the train were also killed. They have not been identified. Tho total number of dead from the two wreck’ js 11. TRAIN HITS LORRY. TWO MEN INJURED. Te Kuiti,, June 28. A miraculous escape from death was the experience of a young man named Fred Martin, of Te Waitere, whose lorry was struck by a train at a crossing at the north end of Te Kuiti last evening. Martin was thrown ten yards along the railway track and escaped with only severe bruises and shock. Tho lorry was almost a complete wreck. Another man, H. Tuohey, a passenger on train, and a resident of Puketutu, also received injury and severe shaking, as a result of falling from a viaduct upon which tho train had pulled up. Thinking there was sound ground Tuohey stepped off the carriage platform and fell twenty feet. Martin’s injuries comprised only sev ere bruises and shock. Tuohey's fall injured his back. Both were taken to the hospital.