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    1. 1913--Train Crash.
    2. Source, Granville, N.Y. Sentinel--Fri. Aug. 8, 1913. ENGINEER STUCK TO POST. Flagman Blamed for Crash of Milk Train into Rear of Work Train. A milk train, running close to forty miles an hour, crashed into the rear of a work train on the Rutland branch of the Delaware and Hudson system between Rexleigh and Shushan Saturday afternoon, but strangely enough no one, including the engineer Charles Munson of the milk train, who stuck to his post , was injured seriously. This is even more remarkable, because the cars of the work train were chained to the track to better enable the work of unloading the stone with which holes in the roadbed caused by the recent storm were being repaired. A flagman had been set back by the work train to warn the milk train, but he went to sleep, being awakened as the milk train dashed by. The milk train rounded the curve, and the fireman saw the work train just ahead. He jumped and was slightly hurt. Engineer Munson applied the emergency brakes and plowed through the caboose and two flat cars. he was considerably jarred. A wrecking train came Saturday from the north, but could not work from that end, and the tracks were cleared Sunday afternoon. About 100 men, all about the work train,escaped with a bad fright.

    02/07/2005 09:36:18