Annie was a passenger on an electric streetcar that jumped the tracks at Queenston Heights and rolled 100 feet down an embankment. Fifteen passengers were killed and more than fifty passengers were severely injured.
Annie was among the injured but she succumbed to those injuries two days later.
Her niece, Reta Wiggins, who was travelling with her, died at the scene.
Story in the Canadian Champion (Milton, ON), 8 Jul 1915, p 3 and 15 Jul 1915, p 3.
Annie was a passenger on an electric streetcar that jumped the tracks at Queenston Heights and rolled 100 feet down an embankment. Fifteen passengers were killed and more than fifty passengers were severely injured.
Annie was among the injured but she succumbed to those injuries two days later.
Her niece, Reta Wiggins, who was travelling with her, died at the scene.
Story in the Canadian Champion (Milton, ON), 8 Jul 1915, p 3 and 15 Jul 1915, p 3.
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