DERAILMENT OF TRAIN.
MR. COSGRAVE'S EXPERIENCE FEARS OF PLOT DISPELLED. A. and N.Z. OTTAWA. Jan. 31. Railway officials and mounted police state that the derailment" of the Canadian National Railway special train at Limoges, in Ontario, on which Mr. W. T. Ccsgrave, President of the Irish. Free State, was travelling, was due to ail accident. A train had passed over the switch which Mr. Cosgrave's train jumped 45 minutes later. The fears of a plot have been dispelled, but the guard has been increased. It has been officially established that the derailment was due to a team of horses, drawing a heavy logging sleigh, bolting from the loading statiou. The sleigh runner jammed in and wedged the switch open and' when the train went through it became derailed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19860, 2 February 1928, Page 11
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