Accident
What if no one wanted to kill Peter Verigin or, for that matter, anyone else on the train? In an age when Pintsch gas was used to light railroad cars at night, was this explosion the result of a leaky gas line? In a region where a significant industry was mining and prospecting a common vocation, could that ever-present tool of the miners and prospectors, dynamite, have been part of someone’s luggage in CPR Car 1586 on October 28, 1924?
Government Documents
- Dominion of Canada, Passengers on all Canadian railroads killed and injured, according to cause, 1919 to 1930, Report of The Board of Railway Commissioners For Canada, 1919-1929, 1919
- F.W. Shaver, Statement From F.W. Shaver, November 12, 1924
- Dominion of Canada, Report Of The Board of Railway Commissioners 1924-1925. Vol. Vll , 1927
Newspaper or Magazine Articles
- The Arrow, The Tragic End of Peter, the Lordly, The Arrow
- Nelson Daily News, TRAVELLERS HEAR TALK EXPLOSIVES, Nelson Daily News, October 6, 1924
- Nelson Daily News, Grip Theory Now Shades that of Bomb, Nelson Daily News, November 1, 1924
- The Province, New Theory of Wreck Cause, The Province, November 1, 1924
- Nelson Daily News, All Four Deaths From Fractured Skulls, Nelson Daily News, November 4, 1924
- Nelson Daily News, Make an Example of Anyone Carrying Dynamite on Train, Nelson Daily News, November 7, 1924
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