LEWISTON,-On Tuesday afternoon last an east bound freight train on the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg road was derailed by an open switch near River view station. The passenger and freight trains were obliged to use the N. Y. C. tracks until the wreck was cleared up.
Source: Suspension Bridge Journal, Niagara Falls, NY, 9 February 1889, p. 3, NYS Historic Newspapers.