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The train wreck.
1919
About 3 Miles East of Mather Manitoba

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In 1919 a wreck that happened on this line was three miles east of Mather on the railway crossing. Mr. John Bale was driving his cattle over the crossing and didn't see the west bound passenger train coming. It struck one of the cattle and it rolled under the locomotive and put it off the rails. One set of the drivers stayed between rails on the ties and the other set of drivers was off the ties and sank into the ground enough that it upset in the ditch. It was two or three days before they got it all cleared away to have rail service again.