Details of Railway Accidents in the Ottawa Area

1907, December 11 - Head on Collision between passenger train and freight train at GTR., Arnprior, no injuries

Kemptville Telegram 19 December 1907 A head-on collision occurred at the G.T.R. yards Arnprior, Wednesday morning of last week. The west bound passenger train ran into the freight, telescoping the baggage car and completely wrecking it and the engine. No one was killed but the passengers received a bad shaking up. Mr.Geo. D.R. Milford of Carp, son-in-law of our townsman, Mr. Geo. Ferguson, and who is well known here as a traveller for McColl Bros of Toronto, was among the passengers, but escaped with a slight shaking up.

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