The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-10-21
issued: 1911-11-20
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nelsondaily/items/1.0384493/source.json
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note: EIGHT PAGES- 50 GENTS A MONTH IB 3fl CLASSIFIED ADS I CENT A WORD Advuan Aoad VOL. 10 NELSON. B. C. MONDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 20, 1911 NO. 187 SIS IN SWAMP Hundred Persons Marooned on Tops of Gars TWO KILLED IN s HEAD-ON COLLISION Another May Die—Several Injured—Crew Jump When Locomotives Clash • DTJLUTH, Minn., Nov. 19.—Marooned on the top of a Soo Line passenger train which Is settled several feet in the swamp 20 miles east of Mooge lake 100 passengers are being exposed to the ravages of the northwest winter, while a rescuing party is making its way on foot to the scene of the accident. The Soo Line passenger train No. 13, left Duluth at 9 o'clock Friday morning and was due at Moose Lake at 11 o'clock. Most of the track ln the Deerwood country ia over swamps built over with ties and piling. The most treacherous part of the way is near Black- hoff, and here the entire train began. ■to settle. It did not take It long to sink to a depth of seven feet Engine Turns Turtle. The engine turned over as it settled and only three of the coaches are visible above the marsh. The surrounding country Is. sparsely settled, but news was brought to Moose Lake by one of the passengers, who walked the entire way. He stated that the passengers were, suffering from lack of water and food. The. wrecking crew was sent for from Superior, but it will be unable to get' anywhere near the wrecked train. Railroad officials state It will take two days to build up the track so aB^tb enable1 the' wreckers to free the cars from the mire. The passengers will be taken to the wrecking train which -Is several miles distant from the accident. Two Killed in Collision. . RUGBY, N. D„ Nov. 19.—The Great Northern fast mail train No. 28, east-l bound, collided head-on with a freight train six miles from here this morning, killing the engineer and fireman of the passenger train, and injuring several others. • • The dead are Isaac Wright, engineer, Devils Lake, N. D.; Micheal O'Leary, fireman, Devils Lake, N. …
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: 10.14288/1.0384493
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