A Brakeman Falls From a Train and Received Serious Injuries.
Between seven and eight o’clock last evening, a brakeman on the westward bound freight No. 60, met with a sad accident at Sanborn. The train broke in two, which was unknown to the brakeman who started to go from one end of the train to the other on top of the cars. As the night was dark, he did not see the opening until it was too late, and he was precipitated to the ground. His arm was so badly mutilated by the cars passing over it, that amputation was really necessary, and a surgeon who was called, performed the painful operation. The man received other severe injuries about his body by the fall.
Source: Lockport [NY] Daily Journal, 11 December 1879, p. 4, NYS Historic Newspapers.