Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Hurt by a Moving Train.

New York, 1895

Peter Gewbel is a night gate-tender at the railroad depot at Woodside. He was in a hurry early Tuesday morning and tried to jump on a moving train. He slipped and fell under the car, but was caught by a passenger in time to drag him from under the wheels. Gewbel received a severe scalp wound.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 21, 1895, p. 1.

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