Details of Railway Accidents in the Ottawa Area

1957, October 26 - Train Kills Woman at Kemptville on Last Run Of Ottawa - Prescott Mixed Train.

Ottawa Citizen  28 October 1957 Train Kills Kemptville Woman, 78 KEMPTVILLE (Special) A Kemptville woman was killed by the CPR's Ottawa-Prescott train Saturday as it puJled out of the station here on the last run of its more than 100 years' service. The battered body of Mrs. James Workman, 78, was found shortly -before 7 a.m. Sunday beside the railway tracks 300 yards west of the station. She died shortly after stepping off the same train at 8.20 p.m. after returning from a visit to her nephew in Osgoode. The train continued its run at 8.25. Apparently she suffered a dizzy spell and wandered onto the track. Richard Evans of Kemptville found her body the next day. No inquest will be held. - - -

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