wreck.

They were then driven by horse and wood-sleigh by Agustine ”Gussie" Mclnnis. to the sight. Mclnnis knowing the area so well was able to cut across fields and on past Harper’s Mill Pond, to keep his horse from getting bogged down in the deep snow drifts It was there Dr. Johnston and Father MacDonald took care of the

injured and dying men. An emergency call was sent from the train station in Tignish

to Summerside, and a special train was dispatched to the scene carrying Dr. J. A. McPhee, Dr J.C. Simpson and nurses from the

Prince County Hospital. The lives of the engineer, Jimmy Hession of Georgetown, along

with Benjamin Richard, Elliot Gavin and Leo Murphy of Tignish were lost. All efforts to save them had failed. Only two of the snow shovellers Billy Bernard of Durham, Ontario and Austin Bernard of Miscouche, PEI are left to tell of the terrible tragedy

on that night. I Both Richard and Murphy left behind wives and young

Children. Mae Richard Poirier would tell in her later life, that on the day of her father’s funeral when she was eleven, in grade

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