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Disaster at Current River Park

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Front: CPR Wreck Caused by Bursting Dam - Current River Park Description: Three hundred feet of the Paquette Dam were affected when a one hundred fifty foot opening in the dam let water through. Five men were killed with the wreckage of a train when it ran headlong into the riverbank. Date of Original: 27 May 1908 Source: http://images.ourontario.ca/gateway/56017/data?n=6 Back: Park & railroad washed out when a dam broke. This was at Port Arthur in 1908.

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Title
Disaster at Current River Park:
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Description
Front: CPR Wreck Caused by Bursting Dam - Current River Park Description: Three hundred feet of the Paquette Dam were affected when a one hundred fifty foot opening in the dam let water through. Five men were killed with the wreckage of a train when it ran headlong into the riverbank. Date of Original: 27 May 1908 Source: http://images.ourontario.ca/gateway/56017/data?n=6 Back: Park & railroad washed out when a dam broke. This was at Port Arthur in 1908.
Publisher
Story
Contributor
AZO
Date
1908-05-27
Type
StillImage, print
Format
nonprojected graphic, 1 postcard, Real
Identifier
macrepo:103466, local: CPC-01689
Source
Language
eng
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Coverage
--Canada--Ontario------Current River [Thunder Bay]--
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