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Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 19 Numéro 606

Date 16 novembre 1861
Comté Saint John
Lieu Saint John
Journal New Brunswick Courier

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Accident on the St. Andrews and Woodstock Railway Tuesday 5th inst. resulted in the death of two persons. and wounding 14 others. From Woodstock Journal - A number of persons had gone down the road from Rankin's Mill to the ballast pit some four miles below to see the operation of a steam shovel. Two locomotives were engaged in the ballasting, one taking trains downward from the pit, the other upwards. The party being about to return, the men in charge of the lower engine took them on the tender and engine with the intention of carrying them up a distance on their way. This was about half past 5 in the evening. On a sharp curve they were met by the other engine coming down. Both engines were immediately reversed but too late to prevent a fearful collision... Two were killed, a foreman named HUGHES and a boy named KELLEY employed as a switchman. Dr. SMITH furnishes the following list of wounded: Miss Martha SAWYER, Woodstock, Mr. KENDREWS, Time Keeper, RICHARDSON, brakeman, severely injured; Michael FLAHERTY, laborer, thigh broken; Howard SAWYER, Woodstock; Thomas LEE, laborers, arm broken; CROONAN, ribs broken; GRIFFITHS, fireman, finger dislocated and contusions; Mr. JACK, St. Andrews; SULLIVAN, switchman; W. SAWYER, Woodstock and several others.... From St. Andrews Standard - George HUGHES came to his death by the collision of the two Engines on the Rail track.

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