Canada police mull criminal charges in train disaster
Canadian police said Tuesday they were looking at criminal negligence as a possible cause of the worst train disaster in recent Canadian history, which left at least 15 people dead and still 40...
View ArticleHead of rail company visits grieving Quebec town
Click photo to enlarge A makeshift memorial for victimns of Saturday's oil. trainderailment and explosions is set up in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, on Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Rescuers have recovered 15...
View ArticleRailroad CEO faces Canadian town waylaid by oil train
July 10, 2013 -- Updated 1044 GMT (1844 HKT) Train wreckage is pictured in Lac Megantic, Quebec, on Tuesday, July 9. Seventy-two tanker cars carrying crude oil barreled down the track before derailing...
View ArticleRail chief gets hate mail ahead of visit to Canadian town hit by train inferno
July 10, 2013 -- Updated 1150 GMT (1950 HKT) Train wreckage is pictured in Lac Megantic, Quebec, on Tuesday, July 9. Seventy-two tanker cars carrying crude oil barreled down the track before derailing...
View ArticleInvestigators fear dozens more bodies buried at scene of Quebec train...
Published July 10, 2013FoxNews.com July 8, 2013: This photo provided by Surete du Quebec, shows wrecked oil tankers and debris from a runaway train in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, Canada. A runaway train...
View ArticleCanada rail disaster toll may reach 50: police
By Clement SabourinPublished July 10, 2013AFP Scorched oil tankers are seen July 10, 2013 at the train derailment site in Lac-Megantic, Quebec. Twenty people have been confirmed dead and 30 remain...
View ArticleRail chief: Engineer failed to set handbrakes
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec -- The engineer who last drove a deadly runaway oil-tanker train apparently failed to properly set all handbrakes, the head of the railway said Wednesday. The engineer was "under...
View ArticleQuebec Train Crash: Employee Failed To Properly Set Brakes, Railway CEO Says
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec — The head of a railway company whose train crashed into a Quebec town, killing at least 15 people, blamed the accident on an employee who he said had failed to properly set the...
View ArticleRailway chairman: People in Canadian city 'wanted to throw stones at me'
July 12, 2013 -- Updated 0043 GMT (0843 HKT) Edward Burkhardt, CEO of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railways Inc., speaks on Wednesday, July 10, during a news conference. A train with 72 tanker cars...
View ArticleQuebec police raise death toll to 5 in oil train explosion
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (AP) — As firefighters doused still burning oil tanker cars, more bodies were recovered Sunday in this devastated town in eastern Quebec, raising the death toll to five after a...
View ArticleQuebec police: 5 dead in oil train derailment
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec • As firefighters doused still burning oil tanker cars, more bodies were recovered Sunday in this devastated town in eastern Quebec, raising the death toll to five after a runaway...
View ArticleUPDATE 3-Five die, 40 missing after Canadian freight train disaster
By Richard Valdmanis and Julie Gordon LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec, July 7 (Reuters) - At least five people died and 40 were missing on Sunday after a runaway train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in...
View ArticleQuebec Train Crash: 40 Still Missing In Oil Tanker Blast
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec -- A Quebec town devastated when a runaway oil tanker train ignited explosions and fires braced Monday for what authorities assured would be a rising death toll as fire crews...
View ArticleSuburban rail boss gets hate mail, heads to deadly oil train derailment in...
The local chairman of the railway company whose runaway tanker train exploded over the weekend in a Quebec town, killing at least 15, said Tuesday he was “mystified” by a fire that apparently broke...
View ArticleDeath toll expected to rise in Canadian town devastated by runaway train
July 7, 2013 -- Updated 2138 GMT (0538 HKT) Smoke billows from a fire at the site of a train derailment in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, on Saturday, July 6, in this handout photo. The train, pulling tankers...
View ArticleLocal rail boss gets hate mail, heads to deadly oil train derailment in Canada
Updated: July 9, 2013 5:43PM The local chairman of the railway company whose runaway tanker train exploded over the weekend in a Quebec town, killing at least 15, said Tuesday he was “mystified” by a...
View ArticleFive dead, 40 missing in Canada train disaster
LAC MEGANTIC (Canada / Quebec): Five bodies of victims have been recovered in Quebec from the catastrophic derailment of an oil-laden cargo train, but 40 people are missing and the toll is expected to...
View ArticleLocal rail boss gets hate mail, heads to deadly train derailment in Canada
Updated: July 9, 2013 8:34PM The local chairman of the railway company whose runaway tanker train exploded over the weekend in a Quebec town, killing at least 15, said Tuesday he was “mystified” by a...
View ArticleHow a train ran away and devastated Lac-Megantic
By P.J. Huffstutter and Richard Valdmanis, Reuters CHICAGO/LAC-MEGANTIC, QUE. - The short length of track, nestled in a dark pine and birch forest in Quebec, is a regular overnight stop for freight...
View ArticleHow a train ran away and devastated a Canadian town
CHICAGO/LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec: The short length of track, nestled in a dark pine and birch forest in Quebec, is a regular overnight stop for freight trains hauling crude oil and other raw materials...
View ArticleRPT-INSIGHT-How a train ran away and devastated a Canadian town
(Repeats to widen distribution) By P.J. Huffstutter and Richard Valdmanis CHICAGO/LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec, July 8 (Reuters) - The short length of track, nestled in a dark pine and birch forest in Quebec,...
View ArticleDeath Toll From Quebec Train Derailment Feared To Be In The Dozens
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec -- Blackened debris, twisted metal and gas leaks hampered rescue workers' search for perhaps dozens of bodies Tuesday, three days after a runaway oil train smashed into this small...
View ArticleInsight: How a train ran away and devastated a Canadian town
CHICAGO/LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (Reuters) - The short length of track, nestled in a dark pine and birch forest in Quebec, is a regular overnight stop for freight trains hauling crude oil and other raw...
View ArticleDeath toll in Canadian disaster at 35
July 15, 2013 -- Updated 0025 GMT (0825 HKT) Edward Burkhardt, CEO of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railways Inc., speaks on Wednesday, July 10, during a news conference. A train with 72 tanker cars...
View ArticleCanadian police open probe into oil train disaster
Canadian authorities are yet to enter some areas of the town engulfed in the weekend blaze. Photo: AP Canadian police said they had opened a criminal probe into Saturday's fatal fuel train blast in...
View ArticlePolice: More bodies pulled from scene of Canadian train disaster
July 13, 2013 -- Updated 2106 GMT (0506 HKT) Edward Burkhardt, CEO of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railways Inc., speaks on Wednesday, July 10, during a news conference. A train with 72 tanker cars...
View ArticleAbout 40 still missing after runaway train crashes, explodes in Canadian town
July 8, 2013 -- Updated 0846 GMT (1646 HKT) Smoke billows from a fire at the site of a train derailment in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, on Saturday, July 6, in this handout photo. The train, pulling tankers...
View ArticleHundreds to return to town gutted by oil train fire in Canada
July 9, 2013 -- Updated 0927 GMT (1727 HKT) The remains of a train are seen in Lac Megantic, Quebec, on Monday, July 8. On Saturday, July 6, the train, pulling tankers of crude oil, rolled into the...
View ArticleReport: Railway head says train in Canada tampered with
July 9, 2013 -- Updated 1114 GMT (1914 HKT) The remains of a train are seen in Lac Megantic, Quebec, on Monday, July 8. On Saturday, July 6, the train, pulling tankers of crude oil, rolled into the...
View ArticlePolice: Evidence criminal act may have led to Canada train crash
July 10, 2013 -- Updated 0018 GMT (0818 HKT) Train wreckage is pictured in Lac Megantic, Quebec, on Tuesday, July 9. Seventy-two tanker cars carrying crude oil barreled down the track before derailing...
View ArticleFirefighters blamed for runaway train in Lac-Megantic, Canada
THE head of the US rail company at the centre of Canada's worst train disaster in recent history has blamed firefighters for the deadly derailment, as investigators combed through smoldering debris...
View Article>Focus on earlier blaze in Quebec train derailment
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (AP) — Investigators searching for the cause of a fiery oil train derailment that wiped out a small town's center and killed at least 13 people zeroed in on an earlier blaze on...
View ArticleHunt still on for 40 missing in Canada train blaze
Published July 08, 2013AFP Families embrace in the emergency camp set up at a high school on July 7, 2013 in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, Canada. Investigators say they hope to expand their search for 40...
View ArticleQuebec oil train derailment sparks criminal probe
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec: Quebec police are pursuing a painstaking, wide-ranging criminal investigation of the inferno ignited by the derailment of a runaway oil train that killed at least 15 people and...
View ArticleSixty dead or missing in Canada train disaster: police
Published July 10, 2013AFP Investigators work at the train derailment site July 9, 2013 in Lac-megantic, Quebec, Canada. The number of dead or missing after the runaway oil tanker train disaster in a...
View ArticleRailway boss blames lone engineer for Canada train explosion
A LONE engineer failed to set brakes properly on a train that derailed and exploded in a small Canadian town, killing at least 20 people, the railway's has chairman said. "Adequate hand brakes were...
View ArticleFocus on earlier blaze in Quebec train derailment
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (AP) -- Investigators searching for the cause of a fiery oil train derailment that wiped out a small town's center and killed at least 13 people zeroed in on an earlier blaze on...
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