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Leaf into Local. Tooting through the night, Grand Trunk-Canadian National Railways' proud International Limited (Montreal-Chicago) was brought to an unscheduled halt near Dundas, Ont. Ahead the engine's searchlight picked out a dark jumbled mass. Walking down the tracks trainmen heard moans, screams, shouts. Farther on they saw scattered Christmas presents, a blood-spattered doll with smashed legs, a fox terrier whimpering over a man's mangled body, another body without a head. Upended on the brink of a 150ft, cliff was a wooden railroad coach with screaming people inside. From the splintered debris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wrecks | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

Next day the Maple Leaf hit a heavy truck near Chicago, hurled it into a parked car, injured one Mike Heneghan. Three-day score for Grand Trunk-Canadian National: Dead, 24; injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wrecks | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

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