Details of Railway Accidents in the Ottawa Area

1962, November 19 - Crossing Accident at St. Eugene, CPR., M&O sub., one fatality

.Ottawa Citizen 21 November 1962 Man killed when struck bv train HAWKESBURY (Special) Bruno Renaud, 67, of St. Eugene, 15 miles northwest of Hawkesbiry, was instantly killed, Monday morning, when struck by a Ottawa-Montreal passenger train. The man was a well-known farmer of the area and had been ill for some time. Engineer John Gillespie, of Ottawa, on Train No. 8, saw the man near a farm crossing, about a mile east of St. Eugene. The train could not be halted and the man was killed instantly when, he fell on the tracks. An inquest into the death will be held by District Coronor Dr. A. Perrier, Hawkesbury. The fatality was investigated by OPP Constable Joseph Vertolli, of Hawkesbury.

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