Abbreviations used
Date July 4 1891
County York
Place Fredericton
Newspaper The Gleaner
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Alfred ASHFORD, a brakeman on the Fredericton branch of the C.P.R. got a telegram containing sad news. It informed him that his uncle, Andrew RUSSELL, a yard master in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was killed that morn. while at work. About a month ago he had a couple of fingers taken off by accident. It is probable that he was struck by a car, knocked down and run over. He was a native of St. John and had been in the west about ten years.