Show REO IN I II I II I STRANGE EXPLOSION I AT MONTREAL MONTRAL CAN two Twenty Hurt When Gas Under R Railroad Platform Platform Plat Plat Plat- form Lets Go I MONTREAL l Jan 1 two Twenty persons persons persons per per- sons were injured by the explosion which wrecked mi the train platform at Place Vigor station In tho the ea east t end of tho the city last night Most Moat of the injuries consist of broken legs Mrs Charles Bruneau of Montreal cannot live hive The Tho explosion was caused by th the tho Igniting of ot an accumulation of gas under th the tho long wooden platform paralleling the tho station The midnight train of oC the Canadian Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- chic for Quebec was standing on on- the tracks adjoining the platform and an unusually unusually un un- un- un usually large number of holiday travelers were wel bidding goodbye to friends when suddenly a scorn of ot them were WE're hurled hurld into the air as if shot from a slant giant catapult Some went straight up twenty or 01 thirty feet Others were thrown over the top of the train and one nan man with both legs broken was found on the tho roof roof of ot one of the coaches |