Seymour (IN) Daily Democrat, January 19, 1898, p. 2. Charles Wilkening, track walker and lamp lighter for the B & O S W Road, met with a queer accident near Cold Springs station Monday night. He had climbed the lamp pole at the switch and lit the signal light but in attempting to descend slipped and fell backward. His foot caught between the rounds of the ladder and the lamp pole holding him suspended head downward in midair twenty feet above the ground. For five minutes the unfortunate fellow hung in that position. In his frantic efforts to release himself, his boot slipped from his foot allowing him to drop head downward to the ground. The fall crushed his right shoulder and broke both arms but saved his neck, and he will recover.