At least 99 people, mostly <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_people" id="mwfA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="German people">German</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_people" id="mwfQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Polish people">Polish</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration" id="mwfg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Immigration">immigrants</a>, are killed in Canada's worst <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St-Hilaire_train_disaster" id="mwfw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="St-Hilaire train disaster">railway disaster</a> after a train fails to stop for an open <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawbridge" id="mwgA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Drawbridge">drawbridge</a> and plunges into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richelieu_River" id="mwgQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Richelieu River">Rivière Richelieu</a> near <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont-Saint-Hilaire,_Quebec" id="mwgg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec">St-Hilaire</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec" id="mwgw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Quebec">Quebec</a>.<sup about="#mwt47" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./June_29#cite_note-7" id="mwhA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwhQ">[7]</span></a></sup>
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