Sujet

Scene of the Recent Accident on the Great Western Railway, near Hamilton, Canada West, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Scene of the Recent Accident on the Great Western Railway, near Hamilton, Canada West, 1857. Aftermath of '...the most terrible railroad accident that has ever occurred in that colony...Just before reaching the bridge over the Desjardins Canal the [Toronto] train left the track, by a misplacement of a switch or some other cause, and ran upon the bridge. The force of the train knocked the bridge down, and engine and cars and all plunged into the canal, thirty or forty feet below. The catastrophe was sudden and awful, and the work of death was instantaneous and complete. The locomotive and tender were entirely submerged, the baggage-car partially so...Most of the passengers in the rear of this car escaped, the remainder were drowned...Among those on board was Samuel Zimmerman, the great railway king of Canada...His death will be a disastrous blow to the business interests of the province'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A76_386

Model release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

26,0Mo (1,4Mo) / 33,0cm x 19,7cm / 3902 x 2332 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation river people railways train bridge bridges British Canada geography railway color structure death accident canal disaster century Britain steam train catastrophe newspapers press concept incident Ontario B&W Hamilton engraved engraving railway bridge Colour 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W deaths white and black nineteenth century steam locomotive The Print Collector geographical feature Great Western Railway GWR Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper landscape Unknown 19th-century railroad bridge Desjardins Canal