| Saturday, October 16, 1954 | The Globe and Mail (Toronto) | Page 1 |
Train rolls over, 5 hurt.
Southampton, Oct. 16.—A four car CNR train toppled off rain-weakened tracks here early today crushing the fireman in the locomotive cab and injuring four passengers aboard.
It took police and railmen an hour to cut the fireman out from the wreckage with acetylene torches. he was taken in critical condition to Saugeen Memorial Hospital here.
His name, and the names of two other men and two women admitted to hospital, were not known earlier today.
The train [No. 329], a mixed passenger and freight service, was bound for Southampton from Palmerston.
The track gave way under the locomotive just as it reached the outskirts of this resort town 30 miles west of Owen Sound.
The engine, tender, one passenger car and the mail car were wrecked.
Railways: C.N.Rys.
Stations: Southampton