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TWO CARS RUN OFF A BRIDGE. 125 FEET HIGH.

(From the Toronto Globe, Feb.SlO'). A , Ono of the most frightful! railway accidents ifc has been our; duty: ;ta record for a length of time, occurred yesterday..-, morning, on the Grand Trunk Bailway, resulting inthe instant death of. three ; . persons, employes on the' road: '-The -fol- ' lowing are the particulars, of tho affair:— - The Grand Trunk Rail\vay/> shbrt die-. ; r tance west of the. Georgetown? Station, . crosses over the Biver Credit iby one of" tho largest bridges, 'on the road. It, is one. of the highest-r-if riot* the very •highest — bridges on : the. road, it being no less than 12& feet from t tho surface of the -river to the floor of the bridge. rive^.t "this point is very shallow,' beirig atf^p season of the year not more than twO^Hr three feet in depth, and almost completely frozen over. About eight o'clock yesterday morning, as No-. 15 freight trairi,frotn tSarnia, was approaching this bridge, it was noticed by .those on the train that, an axle-tree of : one of the rear cars was broken. ■■ The Grigi he-driver, * ■•on«~being. notified-of the fact, - at once. > whistled "brakes down," but: owing; to the ice on the track, and the train being on the down grade, the train could not ba stopped as quickly as under ordinary circumstances. At the time; the defect inthe axle-tree was discovered, the train Was \vithin two hundred yards Of the bridge, and going at the ordinary speed. The persons on the train did all in .their power. to stop it.- All their efforts, however, wero unavailing, as the train still kept moving, and in a few minutes entered ■on -Ihe bridge. The engine and the tender, and a number of the cars, passed onward ' ih safety ; but just as the last two cars camo upon the bridge, the coupling of the forward one broke. In these cars were the conductor of the train and' two brakesmen. Immediately on the parting of the train, the last two cars ran off the £fa«k, dashed through the side rail of the bridge, took an awful leap into the air, and fell, with a fearful crash, into the river beneath. They were, : of course, smashed to atoms, and the three unfortunate men were mangled in such- a horrible manner . ' as to be scarcely distinguishable as human beings. The bridge was not very much injured by the affair, only a ; few of the rails and' the«|>Ortion; of the side rail thi-ough which the cars ran having been damaged. - "-.V ".".., -.*■.

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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 9, 21 June 1864, Page 3

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TWO CARS RUN OFF A BRIDGE. 125 FEET HIGH. Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 9, 21 June 1864, Page 3

TWO CARS RUN OFF A BRIDGE. 125 FEET HIGH. Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 9, 21 June 1864, Page 3

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