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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Lucky To Be Alive: David Pettet of North Pelham Struck by Train on
December16, 1901 and Lived
During the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, Pelham residents often walked along the railroad right-of-way
to travel between Pelham and Mount Vernon. As one might expect, such a
practice led to tragic accidents on numerous occasions. David Pettet of
the Village of North Pelham was one such traveler. He was struck by the
Boston Express while walking from Mount Vernon to Pelham on December 16,
1901. Here is an account of the incident.
"THROWN FORTY FEET AND LIVED.
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MAN STRUCK BY TRAIN GOING FIFTY MILES AN
HOUR HAD ARM AND COLLAR BONE BROKEN.
David Pettet, sixty years old, of North
Pelham, while walking on the New-Haven Railroad tracks from Mount Vernon
to Pelham, yesterday, was struck by the Boston express, which was
running at the rate of fifty miles an hour. He was tossed forty feet
down an embankment.
The train was stopped, and when the trainmen
went to pick up a dead man, as they supposed, they found that Mr. Pettet
was still alive. He was taken to the Mount Vernon Hospital, where it was
said that his collar bone and right arm were broken, and that he was
badly shaken up, but otherwise uninjured."
Source: Thrown Forty Feet and Lived,
New-York Tribune, Dec. 17, 1901, p. 14, col. 1.
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