Current River Disaster
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- The spring of 1908 was a season of extremes with May temperatures in the mid 80's. In the middle of May, the rains came, causing streams to swell. Shortly before midnight on May 27 a 200 million cubic foot, 20 foot high wall of water began surging down the Current River Valley. Paquette Dam had crumbled, leaving a 150 foot breach in its wall. Three CPR employees, Engineer Savard, Fireman McBride, and Brakeman Inman were killed when the train left the tracks on its approach to the CPR bridge across the Current River. Within three days Port Arthur was supplied with power from the Kam River Power Plant. The Paquette Dam was never rebuilt.
- Date of Original
- May 27 1908
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 5.5
Image Height: 3.5
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- P1134
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 48.4501 Longitude: -89.18341
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Contact
- Thunder Bay Public LibraryEmail:research@tbpl.ca
Website:
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