New Westminster Rail disaster on November 1909

Post Card caption: '"G.N.R. Wreck where 23 Japs lost their
lives Nov. 28, 09 near New Westminster, B.C."
G. A. Barrowclough photo

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"On November 28, 1909, after heavy rains, a Great Northern work train bound for Aldergrove tumbled down a forty-foot embankment west of Sapperton, killing twenty-two of the fifty-two Japanese workmen inside a boxcar. A creek had overflowed which weakened the roadbed's gravel fill. Here the "big hook" from Everett, Washington, attempts to retrieve the locomotive, whose crew survived by jumping before being pulled backwards into the washout."

From Breaking News: The Postcard Images of George Alfred Barrowclough (Heritage 2004)

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The men buried at Mountain View are:

KAWAHARA W. OLD/2/05/016/0005
YAMASHITA N. OLD/2/05/016/0006
FAHIDO F. OLD/2/05/017/0001
WATANABE Y. OLD/2/05/017/0002
FAKASKA U. OLD/2/05/017/0003
MURAKAMI F. OLD/2/05/017/0004
HORINO T. OLD/2/05/017/0005
FROSKA Takeya K. OLD/2/05/017/0006
MARITA K. OLD/2/05/017/0011
MIYAURA T. OLD/2/05/017/0014
SAKAI S. OLD/2/05/017/0015
OSONO F. OLD/2/05/017/0016
TOSAKA K. OLD/2/05/024/0001
KATSUDA K. OLD/2/05/024/0002
SAITA T. OLD/2/05/024/0014
MEZODUCHI C. OLD/2/05/024/0015
MAIDA T. OLD/2/05/024/0016
MURAKAMI K. OLD/2/05/025/0001
NIKUMA T. OLD/2/05/025/0002