Details of Railway Accidents in the Ottawa Area

1948, August 19 - Crossing Accident with a steam roller at Carleton Place, CPR, one injury

From the Ottawa Citizen August 20, 1948 Gananoque Man Injured CARLETON PLACE Walter Cross, 58, Gananoque steam roller operator, suffered a possible skull fracture and other injuries yesterday when a Pembroke-Ottawa passenger train struck his machine. The roller was cut in two and some minutes later Cross was found, semi-conscious, on the front of the locomotive. Carleton Place is 40 miles northwest of Brockville.

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