Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-11-10 | Page 1 | Fourteen Persons Are Killed by a Runaway Car near Vancouver

PUT tN P SONS ARE i Y V VI j I A RUNAWAY CA CANEA VANCOUVER Seven Persons Are re Injured and at Least Two rO of Will Die JDie Car of o Lumber Strikes a Passenger Car B C Nov O run lIIn runaway away car Of lumber collided early to today today day wIth a crow crowded ed passenger car on the British Columbia Electric Railway Interurban line Fourteen killed Jellied including the mot motorman orman and of the tho freight car the pa being mostly workingmen bound for the tho British Co 1 lumbia Electric Car building Ing shops In I Now Westminster Seven Swen persons were ere Injured and at lens two of these will dIe I even pers person n tn in the ger car was killed 01 Injured Some Somo or of those who CSC escaped death In the tho first crash vero hilled 1 when timbers fell upon thorn thom at the edge of the tho track Only two bodies havo hao been I of Motorman The Tho hurts and amid Conductor Nearly all of the were labor rs on their way to work The en cat left time ver or station just behind nn an electric freight of locomotive box hox car and flat fiat car with hen heavy timbers Tue Tho timbers limbers were 50 or GO 60 feet feel Ion bug and a foot fool thick Three miles out omit Ctt at the head or of a grade which time tho freight cars hull had just ns as ascended the coupling of the lumier car broke and It started back toward time the city By this time time passenger car was a quarter of a tulle mile behind It H was just leaving Lake Lale View sta sla staI imm I a short distance the city limIts when the lumber car dashed Into vIew The runaways ys speed must have hao l hoots n tremendous for Timo Tho Thoburn burn burma had not time timo to move When the occurred the heavy tint hers liess of the th flat car cam slid forward and sipped tIme the passenger car level loel with the floor floes Not Nol a slIver was left lett stand in lug of the passenger car