SENSATIONAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
CAN ADI AN-PACIF IC TRAIN CRASHES INTO A STATION.
AN UNCONTROLLED ENGINE
FIVE LIVES LOST.
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Received March IS, 9.35 p.m. Ottawa. March 18.
A Canadian-Pacific Railway Company's express, from Boston, travelling at 40 miles an hour, dashed into the Windsor Street Station, Montreal, ploughed over the platform and crashed into the ladies' waiting-room, bringing down a pillar supporting the super structure. The cfamages amounted to 100,000 dollars. Five people were killed and -twenty injured. All the pasengers in the waiting station were unhurt. The accident was duo to a boiler plug on the engine being blown out. The driver and firemen were thrown oiit,- and there was no one aboard to stop the train.
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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12492, 19 March 1909, Page 2
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120SENSATIONAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12492, 19 March 1909, Page 2
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