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Accident- Tillsonburg Truck and N.Y.C.
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- December 1, 1951
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3447
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3448
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3449
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3450
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3451
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3452
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3453
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3454
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Stollery Studio fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Item Number
- 51-2989 (1_3447)
- 51-2990 (1_3448)
- 51-2991 (1_3449)
- 51-2992 (1_3450)
- 51-2993 (1_3451)
- 51-2994 (1_3452)
- 51-2995 (1_3453)
- 51-2996 (1_3454)
- Accession Number
- 2018-57
- Storage Room
- Archives 4th Floor Storage Room
- Storage Location
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3447
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3448
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3449
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3450
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3451
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3452
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3453
- M7 S1 Sh1 B1 1_3454
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- December 1, 1951
- Publication
- 1_3450, 1_3449, 1_3453, 1_3454, and 1_3447 were published with article in St. Thomas Times-Journal on December 3, 1951, page nine.
- Physical Description
- 8 negatives: plastic
- Scope and Content
- Photographs of a train collision with a truck, and debris scattered around the train tracks.
Caption from St. Thomas Times-Journal, December 3, 1951, page nine: “Virtually Nothing Left of Truck in Which Otterville Children Killed: Tillsonburg Tragedy Was End of Trip to See St. Nick.”
1_3450, 1_3449, 1_3453, 1_3454, and 1_3447: “These are scenes of the tragedy at the Tilson avenue crossing of the New York Central in Tillsonburg Saturday afternoon in which three Otterville children, William Campbell, 12; Olive Campbell, 11, and Carol Campbell, 10, met instant death. The remains of their father’s two-ton truck, completely demolished when it was hit by a fast westbound express, appear strewn along the north side of the track for 400 yards west of the crossing. The upper left photo is a view taken from a point about 100 yards west of the crossing and looking toward the Tillsonburg depot just east of the crossing with a train standing on the westbound track waiting for a switch to be repaired. Centre left is the crushed cab of the truck, under which the mangled body of one of the little girls was found. Other parts of the truck are shown bottom left. In the upper right picture, Tony Dennis, of St. Thomas, looks at the mark left on the side of a railway shanty 150 yards west of the crossing where the wheel of the truck lying in the foreground crashed against it. The front of engine No. 5215 was photographed as it appeared on its arrival in St. Thomas with part of Campbell’s truckload of scrap wedged in the frame, including old oil and paint cans, cartons and other junk. Lower right is Arthur Chipps, R.R. 3., Delhi, employed in a planning mill close to the crossing, was one of the first on the scene. He said the crash of the train into Campbell’s truck sounded like an explosion.”
- Name Access
- Tillsonburg (Ont.)
- New York Central Railroad
- Subject Access
- Train Wrecks
- Accidents
- Related Material
- Original photograph sleeve: M7 S1 Sh4 B11 11_333
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