Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1909 — ENGINE PLUNGES INTO ROOM [ARTICLE]

ENGINE PLUNGES INTO ROOM

8!x Persons Killed and Many Injured in Montreal. A locomotive, attached to a surburban train on Canadian Pacific coming into the Windsor station at Montreal. Can., plunged through the womens waiting room. Six persons were killed and many injured. The brakes, it is said, failed to work when the engineer tried to stop for the track-end. The heavy engine, carrying all before it, smashed through the platform space and tore through the depot walls. Bricks buried and injured many who were not in the path of the engine.