News Story: Lead-on Collision between a truck and a streetcar before sunrise, near intersection of St. Laurence Blvd. and Liege St. The victims were in a truck driven by Emil Fisher, returning from the Laurentian. The truck belonged to Abraham Lifshitz, who had been fined once before for transporting paid passengers. It was illegal to carry paying passengers by truck, and illegal to carry more than 10 passengers. 18 passengers were crammed into the truck. There are photos for the 6 victims; Smolkin, Baruch; Ziniuk, Bella, age 17 and recently immigrated; Hamat, Baruch; Adeland, Pinchas; Schwartz, Benjamin; Haber, Leon.
News Story: Lead-on Collision between a truck and a streetcar before sunrise, near intersection of St. Laurence Blvd. and Liege St. The victims were in a truck driven by Emil Fisher, returning from the Laurentian. The truck belonged to Abraham Lifshitz, who had been fined once before for transporting paid passengers. It was illegal to carry paying passengers by truck, and illegal to carry more than 10 passengers. 18 passengers were crammed into the truck. There are photos for the 6 victims; Smolkin, Baruch; Ziniuk, Bella, age 17 and recently immigrated; Hamat, Baruch; Adeland, Pinchas; Schwartz, Benjamin; Haber, Leon
Other relative: Isaac Stromnerg, brother-in-law, who survived the accident. News Story: Born 1896 in Horodetz, Ukraine. Emigrated to Canada 1922. In Ukraine he was a lumber merchant and in Montreal he was in the grocery business. He then open a general store in Ste. Agathe with his brother-in-law Isaac Stromberg. Funeral from home.
He would have been 33 on Monday July 23rd, 1934. Was separated from his wife and living with his 6 years old son at his parents. They were married in 1925 and she left him when his business failed. He worked as an assistant driver for Mr. Lifshitz, owner of the truck in this fatal collision at a wage of $12/ week. Funeral from parents' home.