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DAR locomotive No. 10 derailed at Canning, November 9, 1912. The locomotive was on a Kingsport bound train approaching the level crossing of Chapel Road beside the Canning School when one of the axles broke. The locomotive and the baggage car derailed and tumbled down a 16 foot embankment, while the passenger car and several freight cars remained on the track. The conductor, Augustus Wilbur Dickie of Canning (1861-1949) broke his wrist. He had just returned to work after being off for three months with a broken leg.[1] The engineer Thomas William Hiltz (1878-1947) had a fractured skull and had to be rushed to Halifax on a special train for treatment.[2] Both men recovered and continued with long careers on the DAR into the 1920s.[3]
The boy standing on the locomotive smoke box is Bill H. Payzant (1908-1998) while his cousin and violin teacher 15-year old Minnie Vivien Miller (1897-1980 can be seen with her violin case in the foreground.
With thanks from the Kaye Family collection, Fieldwood Heritage Society, Canning.
References
- ↑ The Weekly Monitor and Western Annapolis Sentinel, November 13, 1912, courtesy Phil Vogler
- ↑ A. Marie Bicketon, Canning and District Old Timers, p. 61
- ↑ Identification of people provided by Linda G. Layton in "Old Canning Photographs, Images, and Documents", Facebook Post August 24, 2020
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