The Grand Forks Sun
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2022-03-14
issued: 1932-04-15
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note: 31st Year*=No. 23 "Tell me what you Know Is true, I can guess as well M you." Major Crime Committed Near City On Sunday night, the C.PjR. track near Fisherman, eight miles west of tbis city, was "tampered with," leading to the derailment of the engine and mall car of the westbound Kettle Valley passenger train early Sunday morning. One rail on the outer side of the track was removed bodily from the ties and laid in an adjoining ditch. •nd the rail next above it was un spliced from the ties from end t > end but left Still attached by angle- Irons to the one next above. In re- . moving the nuts from the bolts on the angle-irons, oil was applied io loosen ^e threads. The angle-irons were thrown in a nearby brook and the rest of the hardware was found on the rock Ibank. The implements with which the spikes were removed were not located. THiifj was a few yards below a rock cut on a curve, and the headlight of the locomotive would sweep to the left toward the rock cut, without revealing the defective track, this accounting for the engineer. I.. L. Boomer of Nelson, not see.hg lt. As the grftfe ls steep all the way up tbe hill, the train was making only 15 miles an hour or slightly better, an,j this slow speed was what averted a d saster, as the point <s from 2500 to 3000 feet above the i North Pork valley below, with a first drop of many hundreds of feet. The engine and mall car left the track but not the roadbed. No one wa8 Injured, Tlie accident occurred about 2 a.m.. and delayed the train eight hours. Inspector CrufckshankB of the B.C. M.P. and a C.P.fl. detective arrived in the city on Monday from Nelson to Investigate the case. A couple of outside constables, with a bloodhound, were also put to work on the case. Ilhe constables are still here, but the. bJoodhpund has been sent away. Apparently the tracks of the perpetrators of the crime were too old when the dog arrived for him to do any good. Local C.P.R. men express the opinion that—Uie chances Of apprehending the …
note: Titled The Evening Sun from 1902-01-02 to 1912-09-13 Titled The Evening Sun and Kettle Valley Orchardist from 1912-04-05 to 1912-09-13 Titled The Grand Forks Sun and Kettle Valley Orchardist from 1912-09-20 to 1929-05-75
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Grand Forks (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0407241
language: English
lat: 49.031111
long: -118.439167
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Grand Forks, B.C. : G.A. Evans
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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