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Daniel F. Johnson : Volume 91 Numéro 45

Date 20 janvier 1894
Comté Carleton
Lieu Woodstock
Journal Carleton Sentinel

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A telegraph message received by George HENDRY of this town, Sunday morn., conveyed the distressing intelligence that his son, George Hendry, had been killed on Saturday night at Harvey Lake. Mr. S. Watts, coroner for York Co., also received a despatch asking him to go to McAdam and hold an inquest. The facts, on evidence, disclosed as follows: Mr. Hendry, age 23 years, was a fireman on the St. John section of the C.P.R. and on Saturday eve. was in that capacity on one or two engines, ordered out with a snow special from McAdam Junction. The driver was E. HADDOCK and conductor James WRIGHT. The train consisted of snow plow, two engines and a caboose. At Harvey Lake, from some unknown cause, the snow plow and leading engine with cab and tender, the train running at about 12 miles an hour, left the irons and went over the embankment, about 20 feet high, on and through the ice into the lake, the engine and greater portion of the cab submerged. A hole was broken into the tank by the collision, from which the water rushed into the cab and the coal from the tender also poured into it. The driver escaped throught the window of the cab onto the ice, Hendry being, as it appeared, carried down into the water of the lake under the coal in the cab. Efforts were made at once to find the missing man. Mr. G.A. HAGGERTY was as soon as possible at the scene of the accident with a wrecking train, but it was found impossible to secure the body until Sunday morn. when the cab was burned. On reaching down his arms length into the water, one of the men was able to grasp Hendry's hand. It then requited the united strength of two men, Michael WARD and John GANONG, to draw the body, which seemed to be in a crouching position, from under the coal which was upon it. It was found that the left arm was broken above the elbow and one arm and leg badly scalded. The coroner's jury, J.W. HOYT, J.W. GREEN, E.W. BROWNELL, M.H. GOODSPEED, G.T. BASKIN, W.H. DENSMORE and J.H. McLEOD, found a verdict in accordance with the facts, exonerating the Ry. Co. and employees from blame. The remains of young Hendry were placed in a casket by the undertaker, Francis KELLY in the office of G.W. Haggerty and then brought to Woodstock Monday morn. on a special. The funeral took place Tuesday. Rev. Baker of the Albert St. Baptist church officiated. Woodstock lodge L.O.L. attended the funeral in a body and also a delegation of Foresters from McAdam. The parents and sisters of the deceased hae the public sympathy.

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