MANY KILLED AND INJURED
TROLLEY CAR, FALLS OVER) AN. EMBANKMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright OTTAWA, July 8. A trolley car at Toronto, containing 180 persons, was returning troni a Sunday school picnic, when it jumped the tracks at Queenstown. Fourteen persons were killed, and eighty injured, several fatally. The trolley jumped the wire, and the brakes refused to act. The car ran madly down hill. It took two curves successfully, but left the tracks at the third. It hit a trolley pole, turned turtle, and fell over an embankment.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9092, 10 July 1915, Page 4
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