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BEN MAPLE HITS PORT BRIDGE
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 13 November 1923]
Getting out of her course while proceeding down the canal, bound from Port Colborne to Montreal, the steamer Ben Maple ran into the steel piling surrounding the abutment of the canal bridge on the east side of the canal at Port Robinson, Thursday evening. Fortunately there was little damage done.
Warnings were sounded by the tug Brant, which was towing two scows in the opposite direction. The bridge tenders also waved their lanterns in an endeavor to prevent the crash.
The noise of the impact could be heard practically over the whole of the village.
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