Four Men Burned to Death in a Camp
A brief, grim wire item reporting that a remote railway construction camp in Quebec burned to the ground overnight, killing all four men inside — a tragedy so small it merited only a few lines.
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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · Page 1
1 min readQUEBEC, Feb. 10.
News has just been received here from Lake Simon, a temporary terminus on the Quebec and Lake St. Johns railway, that on Sunday last a camp situated about six miles from there and occupied by four men was burned together with the men. No particulars of the disaster have been received.
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