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Historic Pelham Blog Archive
September 26, 2007
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
The Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885 Continued . . .
Those who read the Historic Pelham Blog know that I recently began a
series of postings that transcribe news articles that appeared following
the train wreck that occurred in Pelhamville in late December 1885. See:
Monday, September 24, 2007:
The Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885
Tuesday, September 25, 2007:
More About The Pelhamville Train Wreck of 1885
Today's posting transcribes a brief item that appeared in The New York
Times on January 6, 1886. That item reads as follows:
"WESTCHESTER COUNTY. . . .
Engineer Riley Phillips had not sufficiently recovered from his injuries
to be present last night at the inquest touching the death of Fireman
Eugene Blake in the accident at Pelhamville on the New-York, New-Haven and
Hartford Railroad on Dec. 27. Coroner Tice and his eight jurors listened
to the evidence of John E. Fuller and Franklin M. Cogill, Supervisors of
Bridges, in the employ of the railroad, who testified that the platform
which was blown by the gale across the track had been firmly built on
poles, and that the sleepers had been pinned down by five-inch iron
spikes. The planking had been repaired in February, 1885, and the posts
were then found in good condition. A colored coachman, John T. Kiar, told
how he passed the station just before the accident, and saw the
obstruction on the track. The inquest will be continued on Jan. 16 at 5
o'clock P.M."
Source: Westchester, N. Y. Times, Jan. 6, 1886, p. 8.
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