SHOCKING TRAGEDY
TWENTY-TWO VICTIMS train strikes a truck (Received August 16, 5.5 p.m.) QUEBEC, August 15 A message from Louisville, Quebec, states that a freight train cut through a truck containing 40 men at a road crossing last night. Seventeen of the men were killed outright and five others died in hospital, where six others are lying injured. The victims were returning from a provincial election meeting. The wreckage of the truck, which was dragged three-quarters of a mile along the track, caught fire and three of the men were burnt to death.
Eye-witnesses state that four other cars had been stopped for the train to pass. Edward Houle, driver of the truck, ignored warning cries and drove his .vehicle into the path of the train. He was among those killed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22499, 17 August 1936, Page 10
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131SHOCKING TRAGEDY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22499, 17 August 1936, Page 10
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