Fifty-Two Dead

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1010, 28 June 1930, Page 9

Fifty-Two Dead

HAVOC OF STORM IN CANADA Two Railway Smashes BIG HAILSTONES BEAT MEN TO DEATH HEAVY loss of life has followed storms in Canada. Eleven persons were killed in two train smashes near Capreol, Ontario. The death-roll in the explosion of the drill-ship, J. P. King, which was struck by lightning at Brockville on Thursday, has now reached 30. Hailstones which are reported to have weighed 101 b killed 11 persons and sunk many boats in Newfoundland.

United JP.A. —By Telegraph Copyright Received 9.5 a.m. TORONTO, Ontario, Friday. Four persons were killed and 12 in jured in a Canadian National Railways train travelling from Winnipeg to .Toronto, which was derailed near Capreol. Ontario, last evening by a wash-out a 3 the result of an unprecedented flood. The tourist and colonist coaches plunged into the Vermillion River. The four who are dead are children who were travelling from Saskatoon to Toronto. The latest check-up shows that 21 were injured. The fireman of the freight train No. 401 from Northbay was killed when the train ran into another washout 16 miles from Capreol. Six trespassers, presumably riding the freight train, were killed. They have not been identified. The total deaths in the two wrecks has reached 11. A message from Brockwill, Ontario, says the death list In Thursday’s ex-

plosion on the dynamite-laden drillscow J. P. King, when struck by lightning, is estimated to be 30. Many were asleep below the waterline. Their bodies are believed to have become tangled in the wreckage of the hull. One body was recovered and there are 12 survivors. It is not known whether there was any considerable amount of dynamite aboard. It is believed lightning struck the ship and ran along the drill rod down into a reef where dynamite had been set for blasting. The toll of a terrific thunderstorm in eastern Newfoundland on Thursday reac. 4 li lives, Lightning killed five at St. Johns. At the Lumsden fishing settlement hailstones weighing as much as 101 b bombarded the community, sinking 30 boats anchored in the harbour, smashing practically every roof and window in the village. Three fishermen clung to the bottoms of their boats until beaten to death by falling ice.