James Crawford 's Early Death



(This article was in the Forest Standard Newspaper in Ontario on March 8, 1900)

KILLED ON THE TRACK

James Crawford, a section man,
was killed instantly on the G.T.R. track,
2 1/2 miles east of Camlachie on Tuesday morning, between 10 and 11 o'clock.
It appears that he had walked over the section and was returning.
The express train due at Forest at 9:55 am
was closely followed by the snowplough attached to two engines.
Mr Crawford got off the track to allow the express to pass, then resumed his way,
and was shortly after struck by the snowplough.
Neither the engineers or the firemen saw him, on account of the snowplough,
but the men on the car saw the body at the side of the track and stopped,
took up the body, which was lifeless, and carried it to Camlachie.
Coroner Harvey, of Wyoming, was called and a jury empannelled.
Dr Brown made a post mortem and a verdict of accidental death returned.

The deceased was 39 years of age and leaves a wife and six children to lament his untimely end.
There is no way to account for the accident but that the wind was high at the time
and he had no idea of the snowplough following so closely in the wake of the express train.

The family have the deepest sympathy of everybody.

And then, in the next day's edition:

THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS ADOPTED AT THE REVIEW of
CAMLACHIE TENT K.O.T.M., March 9th:

Dear Mrs Crawford:
God, the great architect of the universe,
having in his mysterious providence by the hand of death
so suddenly removed from our midst our beloved Sir Knight and your affectionate husband,
the late James Crawford,
we, the members of Camlachie Tent No. 35 K.O.T.M. of the world
desire to place on record how highly we valued our lamented Bro. Sir Knight,
and the great loss we have sustained by his death.
We desire to express our sympathy with you and the members of your grief-stricken family.
It is our most earnest prayer that the disposer of all events
will make this sad bereavement in the end a blessing to all who experience its influence,
to prepare them to enter the heavenly mansion when their hour of departure comes.

Signed in behalf of the Tent
J K Cairns
G A Molaney
John Ferguson
Peter McMillan