Sudbury Railway Accident
In the Sudbury railway accident on January 21, 1910, a derailed train crashed into a river. 37 people died.
The “Soo Express” was on its way from Montreal to Minneapolis . To do this, he had to cross the Spanish River on a bridge 77 km west of Sudbury , near the settlement of Nairn in Middlesex County , Ontario . The train derailed immediately in front of the bridge. Two wagons sank in the river nine meters deep here, another was smashed at the bridge's abutment . Before one of the cars sank in the river, a conductor managed to punch a hole in the side wall with an ax and saved seven people from it. For this he received the Albert Medal .
See also
literature
- Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 36.
Coordinates: 46 ° 18 ′ 3.6 ″ N , 81 ° 40 ′ 29.9 ″ W.