Wreck spilled trainload of wheat.

Eleven cars of a wheat train drawn by engine No. 420 were derailed on Sunday morning about 3 o'clock, while coming from Midland down the Hendrie grade, most of them tumbling down the banks on either side of the track. The grain was sown in the nearby fields, some hundreds of bushels being dumped in heaps where the cars overturned. Nearly all the Italians on the Northern Division had a hand in shovelling the wheat back into other cars which were soon rushed to the scene of the accident. The Allandale auxiliary left early Sunday morning but did not have all the wreckage cleaned up until Tuesday noon. It was necessary to build a temporary line around the wreck to allow the other trains to pass. A spread rail is said to be the cause of the accident. Conductor Ike Ambrose and Engineer McDougall were in charge of the train. None of the crew were injured.

Railways: G.T.Ry.

Stations: Hendrie

Results