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    1. Re: [ONTARIO] Railway Accident - Instant death March 22 1906
    2. Marg McFarlane
    3. Hi Glen: From the Toronto Daily Star, March 27, 1906: Censured the G. T. R. (Grand Trunk Railway) Switchman Found to Blame for Collision Causing the Death of Two Men at Sarnia Special to The Star Sarnia, March 27, 1906 - Coroner Dr. Bradley resumed the inquest yesterday over the deaths of Richard Crapp and Nathaniel Hughes, GTR firement, who lost their lives in the accident early Thursday morning last. Switch tender Frederick Sullivan, who has been railroading for three years, and who was the primary cause of the accident, testified that the night of the mishap was his first night at the job, and he had only been shown how to do the work once before going on duty. He gave evidence that he thought he was doing right in letting the train out on the London division. Every witness pronounced the night an exceptionally stormy one, and Engineer William Newcombe of Toronto attributed this fact to his failure to discern the signal light as he passed on to the London west-bound track. The verdict of the just wa that "The cause of the collision we attribute to the gross carelessness of employees of the Grand Trunk system, and severely censure the Grand Trunk Railway for placing careless and incompetent men in charge at so important a point as the tunnel yards." --End-- Marg in Sunny Alberta Glen Johnson wrote:

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