ENGINE CREW’S BRAVERY.
FORTITUDE UNDER DIFFICULTIES VANCOUVER, Nov. 19. Mr T. J. O’Neill, a member of Parliament, who is also a locomotive driver, stuck to the throttle to-day, saving the lives of 200 people _ aboard a Canadian Pacific trans-continental express which ploughed into a rock slide from a mountain which had fallen on the tracks near Kamloops (British Columbia), derailing the locomotive and two coaches. Mr Robert Landsburg, the' fireman, was severely scalded and Mr O Neill was scalded about the face and had three fingers amputated. Though they saw the tracks buried ahead the driver and 'fireman refused to jump, winning a desperate battle to slow down the train’s speed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 303, 21 November 1938, Page 7
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111ENGINE CREW’S BRAVERY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 303, 21 November 1938, Page 7
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