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Eleven Killed On The Rail

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
November
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Terrible Collision on the Grand Trunk in Canada -- Twelve Wounded.

Kingston, Ont., Nov. 16.- By a wreck on the Grand Trunk railway at the Diamond crossing, near Trenton, Ont., early yesterday morning eleven persons were killed and a dozen more, or less injured, several seriously. A freight train of three cars was endeavoring to enter a siding when the Montreal express crashed into it at full speed, completely wrecking the freight train. The engine and several cars of the express were derailed, burying the fireman and engineer and an extra engineer named Riley. A wrecking train was dispatched to the scene at once and the crew set to work with the assistance of the uninjured passengers caring for the dead and injured. A number of the latter were taken to Belleville and placed in the hospital.

The dead are as follows: William Lunness and Charles Goodchild, cattle drovers, Toronto; John Casey, engineer off duty, Belleville; William Brady, engineer Montreal express, Belleville; John MacDonald. fireman Montreal express, Belleville; Merie C. Kern, George Hadrich and Katrine Hadrich, all Russians. Three other Russian - man, woman and female child - all unidentified.