60th AUCTION - day 3

Desaster Mail: 1894, 9 June, Canada, Railway accident, large fragment of station

Desaster Mail

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1894, 9 June, Canada, Railway accident, large fragment of stationery card 1c. black from Toronto 7.6.1894 to Rat Portage, with scorch marks, straight line "RECOVERED FROM TRAIN WRECK" and oval "P.O.INSPECTOR JUN 13 1894 WINNIPEG CANADA". The bridge across the Mattawan River, four miles west of Kaministiquia, Ontario, was destroyed by forest fires at the beginning of June. Train no. 1 from Fort William fell into the river about noon on 9 June. The express messenger, a man named Brown, drowned and a woman passenger died of burns. The bridge remained out of service for three days.

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Condition: postal stationery