22 Nov 1950
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Newspaper
Lethbridge Herald
Location
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Date
Nov 22, 1950
Page
1
A Canadian National rail disaster on a mountain curve near Edmonton leaves 2 dead, 6 missing, and 20 injured as a troop train and a passenger train collide in zero visibility. 12 soldiers recovered from wreckage as emergency crews battle ice and cold.
Francis J. Sullivan, chief legal counsel of Ontario lands and forests, was found bludgeoned to death in a Chateau Laurier Ottawa room. His widow Marion Sullivan, a socially prominent figure, is detained on a murder charge. The police describe the case as a family quarrel over liquor.
A missionary plane with 21 aboard eight of them children apparently crashed and burned last night on Mount Moran Wyoming rescue units headed for the scene as climbers were said to be near the wreckage on the 12 100 foot peak. The plane bound from Chico California to Billings Montana was owned by the New Tribes Mission with Dr Paul W Flemings among the passengers.
The daughter of the 9th Earl of Lindsey married John Guest, the Dowlais iron-master, and despite Victorian gossip she created a dynamic life. She bore 10 children, spoke eight languages, translated the Mabinogion from Welsh to English, held an office in the ironworks, and wrote treatises, shaping a public, scholarly persona.
Prime Minister St Laurent announced acceptance of an invitation to the Commonwealth prime ministers conference in London in January. Attlee invited the group including Australia Ceylon India New Zealand Pakistan and Southern Rhodesia with South Africa sending a cabinet member. The 1948 and 1949 meetings featured Canada represented by King’s government and Pearson respectively.
Two north central California regions faced new flood threats as muddy debris filled waters began to crest and recede elsewhere in California and Nevada. Nine deaths and over 20 million dollars in damage have occurred in three days as Army engineers ordered 150 levee patrols near Sacramento. Near Modesto runoff from Don Pedro dam threatens lowlands today with 26 000 cubic feet per second still flowing into the reservoir.
Near northeast Korea the United Nations and Chinese forces clash. Heavy bombers blasted Musan border area and the port of Chongjin as infantry probed along the front. US 7th Division flags were raised at Yalu river opposite Manchuria as operations continued.
A Canadian National Railway official reported that omitting the words at Canoe River from a troop train order caused a fatal collision with a transcontinental flyer. The full order instructed the troop train to wait at Canoe River for No. 2 to pass, then proceed to Gosnell to wait for No. 4.
Defence headquarters released a list naming 14 soldiers killed and two missing after the troop passenger train crash on the Canadian National main line near Canoe River British Columbia. The report includes next of kin and home towns for each fallen soldier, with injuries noted for one survivor.
Athens Greece Sunday mist hung over Delphi before dawn as the sun rose behind mountains revealing olive covered slopes. The writer contemplates Apollo's Trispie and the ancient sanctuary, noting the 6th century temple and the need for historical context to fully appreciate the shrines.
Canadian Press report from Tokyo describes Miss K a Vancouver born woman of Japanese descent who moved to Japan in 1941 hoping to marry. The piece notes her fluency in English, limited Japanese, and attempts to work typing and bookkeeping as World War II began. Continued on page 12.
Jasper Alberta reports recounts survivor Jack Thorson from Winnipeg describing a collision near Canoe River BC that killed or left missing eighteen people. He details climbing from the dining car on a curve and witnessing tangled engines, steam, and wreckage as rescuers worked to free injured passengers.
Edmonton reports an explosion and fire destroyed sleeping cars baggage car and two locomotives after a head on collision on a mountain route 312 miles west of the city. Four crewmen remain missing two soldiers still unaccounted for and 14 soldiers are reported dead in the broader collision standings.
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