Train Wreck, Current River Park (1908)
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A crowd of onlookers examine the wreckage of a locomotive engine and freight cars at Current River Park. Shortly after midnight, the Current River swept over it's banks, washing out several hundred feet of railway track. According to newspaper reports, the westbound freight train crashed into the swirling waters and derailed, taking the lives of the engineer and brakeman, as well as taking fourteen freight cars down. Another photograph of the disaster can be found under the heading Current River Disaster, 1908. Fears at the time were that the Onion Lake Dam had burst, but it proved to be the smaller Paquette Dam that had burst.
- Notes
- Also P3529
- Date of Original
- 27 May 1908
- Dimensions
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Width: 5 in
Height: 3.5 in
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- P234(24)
- Collection
- Thunder Bay Public Library
- 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
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