April 18, 1892 Freight Train Wreck
"On Monday afternoon at about half-past 5 o'clock as a double was coming east when reaching the match factory sidling in this place, the switch having been left open when the shifter was ran out, was run out and and had not been turned back, the train left he main track and run in on the sidling. As the train passed the water plug, Conductor Bickle discovered the mistake and gave the alarm. The Engineers reversed their engine but the space was too short to stop the heavy train. The men in the cabs jumped out and the front locomotive went crashing into the heavy backstop attached to the sidling, crushing it as easily as an egg shell, and went plunging across the gutter, over the fence into the field, where it sank into the soil almost to the depth of the driving wheels, the second locomotive did not leave the track. T he wreck train was sent for and by half-past 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning the wreck was cleared up - Two of the shifter crew were granted a short vacation
.R.L. Urich, our enterprizing Photographer, has taken a photograph of the above wreck and will sell copies at 25cts. " - The Snyder County Tribune
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