Man killed by train, tried to save wife

Alfred Taylor, of the Toronto Street Cleaning Department, was killed by a C.N.R. train near Bradford on Monday when he tried to save his wife whose shoe had caught in a rail on the track.

Taylor, with his wife and 14-year-old son, came to the Holland River for a day's fishing. In the afternoon before returning home they went to the tunnel bridge for a last try. Unaware of the danger speeding near them they sat. At 7.05 the train came in sight and they jumped up. As Mrs. Taylor started her shoe caught in the first rail and she fell heavily between the rails. Mr. Taylor, seeing the danger, rushed toward her. The train hit him a glancing below, hurling him into the river. The son jumped into the water and barely escaped. Meantime the train passed over Mrs. Taylor, who lay flat between the rails, face downward, and she escaped without even a scratch.

Attracted by her screams, Fred Perrin, also of Toronto, who was near, hurried to the spot and saw Taylor hurled over the bridge. He jumped in and brought the body to shore. The son managed to get to shore and ran back to the bridge, where he found his mother shaken and unnerved, but unhurt. Mr. Taylor it was found suffered a badly fractured skull and had been killed instantly.

Railways: C.N.Rys.

Stations: Bradford

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