21 C.N.R. cars jump tracks

Tear up 200 yardsfeet of roadbed

Port Colborne

, March 23 (CP).—Wrecking crews from Hamilton laid new trackage along 200 feet of the Canadian National Railways right of way nine miles west of here today following derailment of twenty-one freight cars during the night. None of the train crew was injured when the last twenty-one cars of a fast freight struck a broken rail and jumped the tracks.

The first fifteen cars, pulled by a powerful locomotive, crossed the bad rail without mishap, but the tail-end of the train ripped up 200 feet of ties and rails when cars were derailed. Damage to the cars was considerable, but the manifest freight they carried was unharmed.

The freight, travelling nearly thirty an hours when the accident happened, was bound from Sarnia to Buffalo. The refrigerator cars carried fresh means, cereals and flour, and were for United States consignees.

Traffic was switch over to another line at Welland Junction until the tracks could be repaired.

Railways: C.N.Rys.

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