当火车在安大略省伦敦撞车卡车时，蔡斯船长被杀。

当火车在安大略省伦敦撞车卡车时，蔡斯船长被杀。

Captain John Case, of the London, Ont., fire department was instantly killed and six firemen were injured when motor combination truck No. 2 was struck and wrecked by a freight train at the Talbot street crossing of the Grand Trunk Railroad on Sunday morning, June 18. The department was responding to a call which proved to be a false alarm. When Chief Aitken in his roadster and the truck company arrived at the crossing the gates were down, a west bound freight train passing. As soon as the caboose of the train was clear the watchman raised the gates. Chief Aitken’s car cleared the tracks but the truck was struck by the locomotive of another, an east bound freight train which had been hidden from the view of the firemen by a large building and freight cars standing and which the watchman had not seen. Chief Aitken, whose car just cleared the pilot of the train, quickly raised his hand in signal to the truck driver and the watchman shouted a warning, but too late. The truck was struck and driven along for a distance of nearly a hundred yards before the freight train was halted on the down grade. Captain Case, who was riding beside the driver and sounding the siren, rose to jump but at the instant the impact came and he was thrown out in the path of the smashed apparatus, which was struck again and again, rolling over the captain. As rapidly as possible Captain Case’s body was extricated from beneath the truck and against the pilot. Later the railroad sent an auxiliary, placed the wrecked fire truck aboard a flat car and deposited it in the East London yards. Watchman Joseph Premo, the gateman, was placed under arrest on a charge of manslaughter and was later released on bail. It is stated that in his anxiety to facilitate the firemen the watchman waived a rule calling upon him to walk out upon the tracks and look both ways. From his position at his shanty and gate levers he did not see the east bound train approaching before he raised the gates. Captain Case had been a member of the department for twenty-seven years. He is survived by his widow and one son. The injured firemen who were on the apparatus at the time it was struck, were Charles Shibley, Samuel Sweet, H. Barnes, Frank Seely, Albert Dean and Fred Bryan. Dean and Shibley were taken to a hospital, being severely injured, and Sweet went to his home. The others, who were on the left running board and rear step, jumped and escaped with a few scratches. The escape of Chief Aitken and his driver, Fireman Thomas Tozer, was, it is claimed, by a margin of not more than two seconds; the chief’s machine barely cleared the freight.

Captain John Case, of the London, Ont., fire department was instantly killed and six firemen were injured when motor combination truck No. 2 was struck and wrecked by a freight train at the Talbot street crossing of the Grand Trunk Railroad on Sunday morning, June 18. The department was responding to a call which proved to be a false alarm. When Chief Aitken in his roadster and the truck company arrived at the crossing the gates were down, a west bound freight train passing. As soon as the caboose of the train was clear the watchman raised the gates. Chief Aitken’s car cleared the tracks but the truck was struck by the locomotive of another, an east bound freight train which had been hidden from the view of the firemen by a large building and freight cars standing and which the watchman had not seen. Chief Aitken, whose car just cleared the pilot of the train, quickly raised his hand in signal to the truck driver and the watchman shouted a warning, but too late. The truck was struck and driven along for a distance of nearly a hundred yards before the freight train was halted on the down grade. Captain Case, who was riding beside the driver and sounding the siren, rose to jump but at the instant the impact came and he was thrown out in the path of the smashed apparatus, which was struck again and again, rolling over the captain. As rapidly as possible Captain Case’s body was extricated from beneath the truck and against the pilot. Later the railroad sent an auxiliary, placed the wrecked fire truck aboard a flat car and deposited it in the East London yards. Watchman Joseph Premo, the gateman, was placed under arrest on a charge of manslaughter and was later released on bail. It is stated that in his anxiety to facilitate the firemen the watchman waived a rule calling upon him to walk out upon the tracks and look both ways. From his position at his shanty and gate levers he did not see the east bound train approaching before he raised the gates. Captain Case had been a member of the department for twenty-seven years. He is survived by his widow and one son. The injured firemen who were on the apparatus at the time it was struck, were Charles Shibley, Samuel Sweet, H. Barnes, Frank Seely, Albert Dean and Fred Bryan. Dean and Shibley were taken to a hospital, being severely injured, and Sweet went to his home. The others, who were on the left running board and rear step, jumped and escaped with a few scratches. The escape of Chief Aitken and his driver, Fireman Thomas Tozer, was, it is claimed, by a margin of not more than two seconds; the chief’s machine barely cleared the freight.