Accidents
Many rockslides, some fatal, occurred throughout the railroad's history on the American side.
A very unlucky car of passengers were passing beneath a garbage chute in Niagara Falls, New York on Friday June 13, 1913 when it broke and buried the scene in garbage.
On July 7, 1915 a trolley with an extreme overload of 157 people ran away and crashed approaching the docks at Queenston, killing 15. The line was rebuilt.
Perhaps the most frightening accident took place in 1917, when a car took 50 lives into the raging river itself.
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Famous quotes containing the word accidents:
“The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale, yet he is saturated with the laws of the world. His measures are the hours; morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy, and all the lovely accidents of nature play through his mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
Those undreamt accidents that have made me
Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
Being but a part of ancient ceremony
Notorious, till all my priceless things
Are but a post the passing dogs defile.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)