VIOLENT STORM
FATALITIES IN QUEBEC EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED APARTMENT HOUSE BURIED MOTHER AND CHILDREN DROWN By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright QUEBEC. Sept. 1 A violent storm which swept the Quebec Province caused several deaths and many injuries as well as doing extensive damage. An engineer and a fireman were killed when a Canadian Pacific Railways overnight express plunged into an open culvert. Several were injured. The engine, two luggage vans and a day-coach were derailed. The intensity of the storm, which caused flooding throughout the district, made the work of the rescuers extremely difficult. The wreck occurred less than an hour before the train was due at Quebec. The Portneuf Piver, swollen by rains, washed out a farm house, drowning a mother and five of her 10 children.
A message from St. Gregoire (Quebec) says that a landslide occurred during the storm and buried an eightfamily apartment house. One person was killed and 10 were injured. Forty are missing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23133, 3 September 1938, Page 13
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