Franklinville Man Killed in Narrow Cut by Train Which he was Trying to beat to Station.
Olean, March 7.-While attempting to beat a train to the Ischua station shortly after 8 o’clock yesterday morning, Albert Miller, 35 years old, a farmer of Franklinville, was trapped in a cut on the Pennsylvania railroad station and ground to death by the train he was racing with.
Miller was visiting his mother at Maple Hill and was on his way to the station. as he neared the station he heard the whistle of the approaching train and started on a run down the tracks, in an attempt to beat the train back to the station. A short distance from the station is a deep cut and Miller was trapped. There was not room enough for him to climb up the sides and he was drawn beneath the wheels by the train vacuum. Coroner Renn of Franklinville is investigating the case.
Source: Cattaraugus [NY] Republican, 13 March 1919, p. 6, NYS Historic Newspapers.