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Titanic Sinking, Apr 1912

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Newspaper accounts on the sinking of the Titanic, from setting sail to memorial services for the unfortunate dead.

Alameda, SK Tornado Destruction, July 1920

DESTITUTION IN WAKE OF ALAMEDA CYCLONE.

FIVE ARE REPORTED DEAD, SCORES INJURED -- TERRIBLE HAVOC WROUGHT.

HOMES DISAPPEAR IN SPLINTERS -- MANY FAMILIES LOSE ENTIRE BELONGINGS.  read more »

St. Thomas, ON Train Collision, July 1887

AN AWFUL ACCIDENT.

MANY LIVES LOST IN A RAILROAD ACCIDENT.  read more »

Trenton, ON Air Force Planes Collide, Oct 1937

MID-AIR CRASH IS FATAL TO 3.

TWO R.C.A.F. MACHINES COLLIDE AT 500 FEET AT TRENTON, ONT.

COURT OF INQUIRY TO PROBE CRASH.  read more »

Vancouver, BC Plane Crashes On Landing, Feb 1968

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INVESTIGATION LAUNCHED INTO B.C. PLANE CRASH.  read more »

Tilsonberg, ON Hotel Fire, May 1908

Three Dead in Canadian Hotel Fire.  read more »

Rat Portage, ON Fire, Nov 1902

Losses at Rat Portage, Ontario, Include Six Steamboats, and Will Probably Amount to $1,000,000.

Special to The New York Times.  read more »

Noyan, QB House Fire, Dec 1960

MOTHER AND 11 CHILDREN DEAD IN FIRE.

Noyan, Que., (AP) -- MARJORIE VOSBURGH, 43, and 11 of her 15 children burned to death today in one of the worst family tragedies in Auebee province history.  read more »


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