Tuesday morning, Nov. 20, Ray Fitch suffered a fracture of both legs, one of them in two places, when his auto was hit by a New York Central freight train at Elberta station, three miles cast of here, on the R. W. & O. branch. The train stopped and he was picked up and taken to Niagara Falls, where he was removed to a hospital. Fitch is 35 years old and has a family. At last report he was doing well.
Source: Lyndonville [NY] Enterprise, 29 November 1917, p. 8, NYS Historic Newspapers.