-Tuesday’s Jamestown Journal says: “This morning as the Buffalo & Jamestown train west was running between Lawton’s and North Alden, it ran into a drove of cattle which happened to be crossing the track. Six animals were killed instantly and they say that the price of beef is low in the vicinity of Alden. No blame attaches to the engineer, and it is a wonder that the train was not ditched’ and some injury done to life and limb of the passengers.”
The Evening Republic, Buffalo, NY, 25 October 1877, p. 3, NYS Historic Newspapers.