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Tried to Wreck Express
[The Waterford Star, Oct. 31, 1907]
Welland, Oct 23—An attempt to wreck a Michigan Central train about half a mile west of Welland was made Sunday night. About 9;30 Miss Sweeney, a school teacher residing about three miles west of Welland, while walking to town discovered a large quantity of iron piled on the tracks. She quickly removed several pieces, all of them that she could lift, and hurried to the tower-house at the Michigan Central bridge which crosses the canal at that point, and told the men in charge there what she had discovered.
The fast express, No.3, was just due and the semaphore lights were thrown against the train barely in time to bring it to a stop. The men then hurried on a handcar to the place and found two rail-spreaders and a fishplate placed on the inside of the rail in a manner that would almost assuredly have thrown the express train into the deep ditch. The obstructions were removed and the express proceeded on its way.
A force of detectives has been in Welland working on the matter and Edward Palmer, an English boy, aged about 15 years was placed in the county jail last night, and will have to answer to the charge of placing the obstructions on the track. The boy has made a clean breast of his part in the affair. He says, however, he did it with no thought that any damage would result.
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