TWENTY-TWO DEATHS
IN LEVEL CROSSING SMASH A CANADIAN HORROR. Preso Association Electric Teleeraplv—Coryrlglit LOUISVILLE (Quebec), Saturday. A freight train smashed into a truckload of humanity at a road crossing last night, killing twenty-two men and injuring fourteen. The lorry, which contained forty persons w T lio were returning from -a pro‘vincial election meeting,, caught fire while the train dragged it three-quart-ers of a mile down the track. Bodies were strewn over the road. Fourteen died instantly; three of the injured, were incinerated and five others died latex-. Six persons were admitted to hospital with serious injuries. Eye-witnesses declare that four other cars had stopped for the train to pass. Edward Houle, driver of the truck, ignored -warning cries, speeded the lorry in the path of the train. Houle was killed.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 17 August 1936, Page 5
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