Saturday, July 26, 2008

Crashed Between Cars

New York, 1895

Clarence V. Shroder, youngest son of Volney Shroder was seriously injured Friday night. Shroder has been a brakeman on the Long Island railroad for many years. Friday night, while coupling cars at the storage house on Locust avenue, Jamaica, Shroder was crushed between a passenger coach and a box car. He was taken to St. John's hospital at Long Island City.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 17, 1895, p. 8.

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