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PRINCE GEORGE CITI^N
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of Central British Columbia
Vol 23, No. 43
Prince George, B.C., Thursday, October 24, 1940
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e Perish in C. N. R. Train Wreck
tocreek bed
,t Fireman and Three Transients Missing and | Killed in Crash or Drowned in Swollen Waters Creek, Near Pacific�Search for Victims' Bodies
men missing and presumed dead is the tragic result plunge of a Canadian National Railway locomotive � freight car over a washed out fill-approach on the Ind of the steel bridge which spans Lome Creek, 125 It of Prince Rupert, around 10 o'clock on Saturday tt The locomotive lies submerged in the raging waters Creek and whether the bodies of the missing men
[urrent is as yet unknown. MISSING
jenter, locomotive engin-. Smithers, B.C. Iyer, locomotive fireman, [then, B.C.
om, New Hazelton,, B.C. |tt, of Kitwangar, B.C. Tupston, of Merritt, B.C.
kfthe missing men were [believed to have been rid-L tender of the wrecked
ptfi wrecking crews have
ling full time since the
took place, no bodies
(en recovered up to press � has it been possible to
|the wrecked engine. , yet known whether the i were killed in the crash
{bridge or drowned by the I waters of Lome Creek. I down the Skeena River
i Lome Creek empties 200
i the bridge.
was regular No. 198.
j Prince Rupert at 6 p.m. and was due here
near Pacific had put the train behind schedule. At 10 o'clock Saturday night on approaching the bridge across what was the raging torrent of Lome Creek swollen' beyond its banks by the incessant rains of the previous few days, the engine crew cautiously took the train over the bridge .which is located half way between Doreen and Ritchie stations, at a speed of six miles an �hour. The locomotive crossed the main steel bridge and entered on �a long easterly fill-approach when the undermined left side of the grade proved unable to withstand the weight of engine and freight car and gave way, causing them to topple into the raging creek. The engine turned completely over and came to rest on its right side, practically covered by water, about 30 feet down and 50 feet north of the easterly concrete abutment of the steel bridge. In the plunge the bell. smoke stack, steam dome and cab were completely stripped from the boiler top. The tender is lying at a slight angle and butting up against the locomotive boiler, while the freight car lies upright at a slight angle above it. Fortunately the
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BERLIN'S VERSION: "HEAVY DAMAGE TO MILITARY OBJECTIVES"
oday's News
� BY BRITISH UNITED PRESS WIRE ----------------
I Items under this head are received by special wire to the Citizen Jin united Press and will appear each week. These bulletins arrived � mis nage went to press this morning; and provide our readers with f �J>-UKhe-mlnute news as gathered by this world-wide organization.
AND COMMONS IN SECRET SESSION DON', Oct. 24 (BUP)�The House of Lords and House of Commons t session today to discuss air defences over Britain.
IIN'FSE CLAIM JAPANESE SUFFER HUG-E LOSSES^ JjGKING, Oct. 24 (BUP)�Japan's autumn offensive in East *,?!ded.in failure with the Japanese troops suffering at least n�h t m Chekian Anhwei and Kiangsu provincial border dis-wn of the Yangtze River, a Chinese military spokesman said.
GERMAN PLANES OVER LONDON LAST NIGHT M, Oct. 24 (BUP)�German planes swept over the English ' Sweden� Oct- 24 (BUP)�R.A.F. bombers are believed I "WfdOslo, capital of German-occupied Norway, today. Heavy Md fl d here from th�*dn-ection of Oslo, and frontier inhab-
Oslo v WCTe Scen in Norway and searchlight beams swept the �o reports of damage or casualties have been received.
JNVF B0MBS BERL*N FACTORY LAST NIGHT
r on**" U (Bup>�British airplanes last night bombed a Ber-
buiMhi Ped incend*ary bombs which caused fires and damage
Ipromni ?� e Hlgh Command said today. The communique
Ismail a �n by air-ra*d wardens kept damage to the bombed
le attaou 1fa.rUer communique had said the British attempted a
weatt, only a few Plan�s reached Berlin. Because of un-
activitvTt0Ver the Britlsh fcfcs yesterday the German air force
-onion La a!rmed reconnaissaince during which bombs drop-
na a factory in central England, the High Command said.
wiles
DESTROYERS
' (BUP)� British troops yesterday attacked Italian of Sidi Barrani, the main spearhead of the Fascist ^s said tfc ,m UhX*> general Italian headquarters said today. Gradani if Ya be�n atta<*ed by the British at Maktila where 18 to Eirvn* ^estal)Ushed an outpost preparatory for further titled fh **. comn��nlque claimed the attack was repulsed. UW bv h� Ita"an destroyer Francesco Nullo, 1680 tons, had er crew after a fight with British warships.
SENDS WARNINGS TO FRANCE, SPAIN
'�>ncs it iBUP)*~Authoritative British sources aimed double tion with thl V^nC� and Spain today, stating that their active ncemoveTnen� �X1S wonld mean (for France) encouragement of a *toch now r Ii colonial empire (for Spain) loss of essential Ws talks JttutVrouBh the blockade. No doubt is felt here that activ* Par�*.iiL#taval and Franco had tried to win France and 'upation in the war on th* sirt�* of the Axis nowers.
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Y.S.A.T. Starts Winter Schedule On Northern Run
Barkley-Grow Twin-Engined Eight-Passenger Planes Will Make Two Trips a Week.
The winter schedule of Yukon Southern Atfr Transport Ltd. became effective yesterday, October 23. On the Vancouver-Whitehorse run planes now arrive in Prince George ndrthbound on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 1:15 p.m. Southbound they arrive Thursdays and Sundays at 8:45 a.m. The scheduled stop here is 30 minutes in both cases.
In future all planes will connect with the Edmonton and. Yukon airplanes at Dawson Creek airfield instead of at Port St. John as formerly.
This winter "Y.S.A.T. is able to offer a splendid service for passengers, mail and express from the Cariboo to Vancouver, Prince George and the Peace River country. Letters may be mailed Thursday morning at Prince George and delivered in Vancouver the same afternoon. Sunday's southbound mail will be delivered early Monday morning. Northbound express and mail may be s^nt from Vancouver Wednesday and '"Saturday mornings to be delivered In Prince George the same afternoon.
Vancouver will be used as the terminal this winter instead of Kam-loops which was used last winter. Jft j^ mM��* 4% Jp S �% I 4* A uew airfield has been laid out at
llQAQv Kn V4%P H&n ( |>ACC Dawson Creek and all Edmonton *|r JmmW W Mk*+9 %0 I VI i^^Vi VIV99 and Vancouver trips northbound to _ �^ m ^^ m Whitehorse, Y.T., will stay at Daw-
I M mrmumm.Mt�'%. IllAJ^WMA ^^. V^%S son Creek overnight. The next day, ||| �linCS VlCOlMw ^^^riCCi Thursdays and Sundays, planes will
__________________*& leave Dawson Creek northbound to
Port St. John, Port Nelson and
Donations Considerably in Advance of 1939 Membership Whitehorse; [southbound to Edmon-
Drivti�Sawmill Communities Make Handsome Contribu- ton, via GTande Prairie and Peace
r: ac oi-' tn- .. r- j u vsr/ � River, and southbound to Vancou-
tions to Funds for Relieving Distress Caused by War. Vftr yla prince G�orge and wmiail^
At noon Wednesday #2,492.36 was the grand total for | Tlie company will operate the Prince George and surrounding communities in the national , same equipment. Barkley Grow twin-membership drive of the Canadian Red Cross Society. This figure represents a considerable increase over last year's contribution, and the local committee and those of the smaller surrounding communities may well feel proud of their accom-lishment. The grand total was giv-'city and district, should kindly send
In the top-floor ward of a London children's hospital, nurses wend their way through twisted cots and fallen masonry after explosion of a bomb. Though most patients have now been removed from the capital, hospitals and schools have contiibuted their share to the 2000 deaths resulting from the daily and nightly German air bombardment of London.
en a big boost on Monday by a cheque for $690.34 from Giscome and Newlands sawmilling pnd logging centers.
Campaign Chairman A, M. Patterson is under obligation by the rules of the national campaign committee to close the local effort
the soil survey being- carried out in the central' interior of British Columbia contiguous to Prince George for the provincial government in conjunction with the Dominion Ex-perimentals Farms branch, Ottawa, and who has been assisted during the past season by Lawrence Far-stad, has about completed the field work for this season. Mr. Kelley has kindly prepared a short report on the season's findings av follows: Tlie reconnaissance coil survey -Jt
lumbia has been carried on in the Prince George district this year for a period of about five months, and the area classified in 1940 amounts to about 104,118 acres. The largest section on which work was done lies west of the Fraser River be-tv/een the Nechako River on the north and the electoral boundary on the south, with West Lake and; the Blackwater road as the tern-l*>rary western boundary. Smaller
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