Hemphill History from the Canadian Record Archives
“There has been some speculation as to the manner in which some of the 25,894 gallons of California port wine held in Canadian in three tank cars “leaked out” and enabled several of the boys to put on a celebration.
The cars were held here while the embargo on freight shipments during the strike blockaded the Kansas City stockyards. The way in which the cars came to be in bad order and leaked…