Brown

- 1862

• Name	Brown
  Gender	Male
  Misfortune	1862
  	killed in train accident
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-204033
  Died	7 Mar 1862	Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I204033	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  BROWN - Coroner Bowlby of Berlin held an inquest on Saturday at Hamburg, on the body of a man named Brown, a track section foreman on the Grand Trunk Railway, Western District, who was killed in the snow drift between Baden and Hamburg on the previous day. It appears that, at the time the unfortunate man met his death, he was busily engaged in assisting to get a train through the drift, and being shovelling the snow close to the engine. The engineer gave the signal that he was about to move the engine ahead, and Brown, attempting to ascend the bank of snow, in doing so he slipped his footing, and falling backwards, was crushed between the steps of the engine and the track. Some delay was caused in getting him extricated, but he had sustained such injuries that he soon afterward expired. The jury at the inquest returned a verdict of accidental death. Hamilton Spectator 10 Mar 1862

  
  

• Event Map

  Died - 7 Mar 1862 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth