40 missing in oil train crash BY BENJAMIN SHINGLER The Associated Press LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec A Quebec town devastated when a runaway oil tanker train ignited explosions and fires braced today for what authorities assured would be a rising death toll as fire crews tried to reach the hardest hit areas more than two days after the disaster. Five were dead and about 40 people remained missing. read more
July 8, 2013 - The Times Record