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Show CATASTROPHE IN CANADA. Blasts Starts Landslide, Causing Loss of Life and Property. Vancouver, B. C. Three engineers were killed and five others injured at the British Columbia Transport company's com-pany's quarry, Pitt river, twenty miles from here. A 'blast so shook the four acres of ground on which the company's com-pany's wharf offices and machinery stood that they slid off the banks into the river. More than a score of men were caught in the landslide. Three still are missing and are believed to have been drowned. Where the company's office formerly stood is now more than thirty feet of water. |