A private letter from North Bend, B.C. gives details of a serious smash up on the C.P.R. on Nov. 9th, just west of Farr's tunnel about 67 miles from Vancouver. At this place a rock slide had occurred. Shortly after the slide had taken place a freight train, with Concutor Kimball and driver Frank McMANUS, engine no. 531, came along at the usual rate of speed. Striking the obstruction on the track the engine left the rails and went over the embankment into the river which at this point runs alongside the railway. The tender broke loose from the engine, but both turned upside down and rolled forty feet together. In the cab of the locomotive when it left the trcak were Frank McManus, engineer; Fred DYER, brakeman; A. GRANT, brakeman. .. McManus had an extraordinary escape from drowning. He was thrown clear of the eddy and into the swift current further from the shore. On reaching the surface of the water after his plunge, he grasped an object which proved to be the roof of the cab. Swept along by the current, he was carried for two miles. McManus was rescued in an unconscious condition - McManus is well known in Moncton and for many years was an employee of the Intercolonial running between Moncton and Campbellton. He left New Brunswick for Manitoba where for some years he ran a train on the C.P.R., afterwards going west to the Pacific coast in the same employ. (see original)