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The train wreck.
1907
3 Miles East of Mather Manitoba

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In the summer of 1897 the C. P. R. turned the sod for the first siding of the village of Mather. There were two train wrecks, one in 1907 and the other in 1919.
George Vincent remembers on March 5th, 1907, there was a freight train that came from the west and it was short of water for the steam locomotive. They wired head office to be advised what to do and were ordered to try to get to Clearwater where they could take on water. They started out and went a half mile east of Mather where they had to leave it. There was a bit of a snow storm on. About ten o'clock that night they started a snow plow out from La Riviere, not knowing that the freight train was there. They collided head on and one of the men in the snow plow was killed.

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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.