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WILLIAM WILEY

Sectionman Killed

[People’s Press, 25 July 1905]

St. Catharines-July 20-Wm. Wiley, sectionman, in the employ of the G.T.R was killed on the track just west of the city this afternoon by a freight train. Wiley was at work on the track and it is supposed when the freight train came along he stood too close to the track and was struck by the engine. He was 68 yars of age, and leaves a wife, two sons and five daughters.

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