1045 EDMONTON DAILY
MAY 9, 1907

THOMPSON, Robert
BUTLER, Wildham
McDONALD, Daniel


Belleville, Ont.

May 7, 1907

Robert Thompson, a 13 yar old boy caught hold today 
of a broken guy wire that dangled across the fee wire 
of the Trenton Electric Company, and was instantly 
killed.

Ottawa, May 8, Wildham butler, 55 years old, a 
government employee, was found hanged from a rafter 
in a shed on Russell road, It was a case of suicide 

Portage la Prairie, May 8

Daniel McDonald, C.P.R. engineer, resident of Aubrey 
street, died this afternoon from injuries received in 
a wreck at the depot. The unfortunate engineer was in 
charge of the wrecking train which was going through 
to the scene of Saturday's wreck, a switch engine was 
a to work in the yards and the men left one of the 
switches open. Into this the engine of the wrecking 
train plunged. The train hand jumped but McDonald 
landed on a hand car, his head being badly crushed. 
He was taken to the hospital and died an hour later. 
The remainder of the crew are not seriously hurt, and 
the damage to rolling stock was not heavy.