William Martin

- 1856

• Name	William Martin
  Gender	Male
  Misfortune	1856	Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	killed in train accident
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-204051
  Died	3 Oct 1856	Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I204051	Generations
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2024

  
  

• Notes

  MARTIN - We regret to record another fatal accident on this line of Railway which occurred at the Preston depot on Friday morning last. It appears that as the engineer was shunting the cars from a side track preparatory to starting for Galt, a young man named William Martin, a son of the switch tender at Preston, in endeavouring to get on one of the pasenger cars, slipped on some loose gravel lying on the side of the track and was thrown under the wheels. One of the brakesmen immediately jumped off the train and endeavoured to rescue the poor fellow but did not succeed until the three wheels of the passenger car had passed over one of his legs, crushing it dreadfully, severly bruising the other, and inflicted a very severe injury on the back, supposed to have been caused by the box of the wheels. Medical attendance was immediately procured, but it was of no avail, and after lingering a short time, death put an end to his sufferings. An inquest was held the same day before Thomas Seagram, Esq., coroner, and a respectable jury, of which Otto Klotz, Esq., was foreman, and a verdict in accordance with the above facts returned. Hamilton Spectator 4 Oct 1856

  
  

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  Misfortune - killed in train accident - 1856 - Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 3 Oct 1856 - Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth