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Broken Rail Caused Engine To Plunge Off The Track
[Citation appears to be: Bru Can Sim. April 18, 1887]
In the course of an article on railroads and other commercial aspects, an exchange relates the following incident:–
In 1880 Capt. Prindville left Buffalo in a Canada Southern train for Chicago. Just the other side of the Welland Canal a broken rail caused the engine to plunge off the track and to upset. Every car on that train went over on its side, some of them on their backs. Not a passenger was injured. The captain says that it was the most complete wreck he ever saw, and that it was marvelous that no one was killed. An agent of the company came rushing along a few hours in a “special” with an attorney. Instantly, the Captain says, the whole train load of people who had been returning thanks to God were taken with spinal difficulties and all kinds of horrid injuries of one sort or another. He detected a young fellow who had sat next to him, and who had laughingly been congratulating himself on his escape, blackening his eyes with mud. The railroad agent wrote a check for $100 for that sly young man on the spot. The others got checks in proportion.
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