The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-09-27
issued: 1909-11-11
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note: 8Pog«a—Subscribe for pa Tbe Newt. Per Month jUC t laila Hit icxA The Dally News Classified Ads. I are Winners. Try One, per word |(J VOL 8 NELSON B. G, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER II, 1909 NO. 176 CATASTROPHE Terrible Train Accident on Outskirts of Vancouver INSTANTANEOUSLY KILLED FOURTEEN LIVE8 SNUFFED OUT AND OTHERS WILL DIE—LOADED FREIGHT CAR CRASHES IN- TO STREET CAR FULL OF PASSENGERS VANCOUVER, Nov. 10—One of tbe worst tTam accidents in the province, paralleled only by tbe Point Ellice Wldge disaster at Victoria years ago, occurred this morning on the New Westminster imterurban Hoe ot the British Columbia Electric railway company. Fourteen lives were Instantly BnuHed out in the accident and nine others are lying in the hospital, three ot whom are not expeoted to live. At 5 o'clock this morning an electric locomotive took a C.P.R. flat oair loaded with heavy pieces ot timber for de- liveiiy to the new Iron works on the Interurban line, a short di»Uunce out of the ctty. On arriving there the conductor found an empty box oar on the switch and left the loaded car an. the main line to shift the empty. Return- tag he coupled the two cars together to back the loaded oan- on the switch and when he had gone halt a car's length the coupling parted and the flat car ran away. A brakeman was on the car and tiled to apply the brakeB without success. The conductor, seeing what was happening ran back and threw a block of lordwood under the wheels to block the runaway but ae car rode over it. The inotormam when he saw what was occurring hastened down the line after he car, shrieking his whlBtle as a waning, the brakeman having Jumped after soing 100 yards. In the meantime the first passenger ^.ram from Vancouver to New Westminister left the terminal here at 6:30 un. with 23 passengers on board. As (he tram was rounding tho curve at jakeview, Just outside the city limits, ■notormaa .Thorburn saw the runaway ,'lat car directly upon him, coming at a erriflc speed. Shouting a warni…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0383452
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History: https://touchstonesnelson.ca
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text