We here in Drummondville, this Easter Sunday April 8, 1928.
There are just 81 years! The weather was cloudy and mild when at about 13 h, breakup occurs, the St. Francis River. The floodwater, carrying a multitude of blocks, ice with a crash, attract a great crowd of curious spectacle unfolding before their eyes.
Hundreds of people at the end of DuPont Street, Bellevue, Berard and others realize all at once with amazement that the bridge of the railway, Canadian National is staggering and collapsing. All assume that the railway authorities have advised the train drivers of impending danger on the other side of the river, Chemin Hemming sisters Martel think the m ven thing: Malvina (married to Donald Grondin) and Regina (Bernier Napoleon) on all at once, just 16 hours before they intend to come 
the passenger train of the Ocean Limited from Halifax, who passing whistles to St. Cyril. It's feast day, it must be crowded passenger
Demonstrating admirable presence of mind, they grab all they can get the hand: a white apron, a red skirt, and go running on the tracks waving his arms and yelling. The train driver, Melvin Houston, has seen them, but as a captain at the time of the sinking, he ordered his deputy to jump and the rest orders until the end. The speed is reduced, but not enough: sister Martel must start against a fence and see the locomotive and baggage car falling into the churning waters, while the first 12 to 14 cars of the train remains unstable equilibrium on the Brink: The
400 and 600 passengers were evacuated unharmed the convoy to the nearby houses and farms and joined Montreal in the next few hours. The tragedy has killed four people: Mr. Houston, two porters and a young Drummondville, Leo Joyal, who too close to the accident, was thrown into the river at the time the shock, As for the assistant driver, he was off with a broken ankle. As for the sisters Martel, in addition to the pride of having helped save the lives of so many people, they were praised publicly and each received a silver medal engraved with their name and a scholarship of $ 500 Canadian National.
Author Gerald Prince EXPRESS DRUMMONDVILLE WWW.JOURNALEXPRESS.CA
ON Wednesday, April 8, 2009
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