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LITTLE GIRL KILLED BY TRAIN
Was Attempting to Cross Michigan Central Bridge
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 21 June 1921]
Annie Shablij, aged 8 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Shablij, 8th Avenue, was struck by a fast passenger train on the crossing on the east side of the Michigan Central Bridge on Sunday afternoon at 1.30 and was instantly killed.
She, in company with a playmate, started up the bank to the tracks to cross the bridge over the canal. Her little chum, when the accident happened, apparently panic-stricken, hastened away at the approach of the train and the accident was not discovered until word was phoned back by the enginer of the train.
Mr. Western, the road master said he saw the train hit the girl, who, as if fascinated, ran straight towards it.
It has been a long been the habit for many of the residents of the south, instead of walking south to the public bridge, to take a short cut across the railway bridge. This is one of the fatalities resulting. One official of the bridge says it is only a miracle that there isn’t an accident there every day.
An inquest has been ordered by Coroner Davis.
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