A Brakeman Falls From a Train and Received Serious Injuries.
Between seven and eight o’clock last evening, a brakeman on the westward bound freight No. 60, met with a sad accident at Sanborn. The train broke in two, which was unknown to the brakeman who started to go from one end of the truin to the other on top of tho cars. As the night was dark, he die not see the opening until its was too late, and he was precipitated to the ground. His arm was so badly mntilated by the cars passing over it, that amputation was really necessary, and a surgeon who was called, performed the painful operation. The man recelved othor severe injuries about his body by the fall.
Source: Lockport [NY] Daily Journal, 11 December 1879, p. 4, NYS Historic Newspapers.