Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1913 - EIGHT DEAD IN WRECK

Spreading Rails Sends Two Immigrant Cars Into Ottawa River

OTTAWA, June 25, - Eight persons were killed and more than twenty injured this aternoon in a wreck of the westound Winnipeg Express on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Two colonist cars, crowded with Scotch immigrants newly arrived from Glasgow and en route for the West, skidded down the embankment and plunged into the Ottawa River. In these the eight known victims - four men, three women, and a child - met their death. Their bodies were recovered and search was continued for others. Of the injured, the condition of several is critical.

The accident, due to spreading rails occurred only three miles east of this city, and physicians, nurses, ambulances and police patrol wagons were at once rushed to the scene. Four cars and the locomotive remained on the track, but in addition to the cards which fell into the river, two cars were thrown on the land side of the embankment and another, first class, was whipped across the track at right angles.

The New York Times
New York, New York
June 26, 1913

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