1875 - PERILS OF THE RAIL

Frightful Casualty in Canada - Eleven Persons Killed and Twenty-five Wounded.

SOREL, Quebec, September 29 - About 7 o'clock last night a train coming from Yamaska run over an obstruction supposed to have been maliciously placed across the track. Six platform cars, upon which there were about seventy laborers, were in front and the engine in the rear and running at a fair speed. Two or three platform cars were upset by the shock and the men on board were fearfully crushed and mangled. Eleven were killed and twenty-five wounded. The names of the killed are John Boucher, Charles Latour, David Cole, Pierre Cartier, Oscar Sonni, Napoleon Bartholeme, Martin Plant, J. B. Blais, Contara and Alfred McClin and J. Aussant. The wounded are all laborers, and belong to Lower Canada.