The engine on train 52, due here at 7:50 a, m., back fired at Millers station one morning last week, due to a reversible blower. The cab of the engine caught fire but the blaze was promptly exetinguished by the heroic effort of the Millers fire department-but not until after the seat cusbions and some of the woodwork was burned. Also Engineman Holman’s hands were quite severely scorched and Engineer Newton Barker’s whiskers singed.
Source: Lyndonville [NY] Enterprise, 14 March 1918, p. 4, NYS Historic Newspapers.