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Another G.T.R. Collision
[Waterford Star, January 15, 1903]
Welland Jan. 10.—A disastrous head-on collision occurred on the G.T.R. between 6 and 7 o’clock this morning a few yards south of where the track crosses the Welland River at Port Robinson, between a Wabash freight drawn by engine No. 1,845 and a Grand Trunk freight, double-header, drawn by freight engines Nos. 760 and 724, eastbound. A fireman, a young man named Robert McHarg, whose father is station agent at London, was instantly killed. He had apparently seen the danger and jumped, his body being terribly mutilated under a wrecked car. The line is double tracked north and south, there being single track for crossing Welland River. The wreck took place just at the junction of the double and single tracks on the south side of the river. The Wabash engine and the head engine of the G.T.R. went down an embankment, and were completely wrecked. The other engine was badly damaged, but remained on the track. Seven freight cars are entirely demolished, two of them buckling in the middle of the train and falling into the river.
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