Thought since Halloween is here, that this would be enjoyed. As reported in the Erie County Reporter January 23, 1890 Trainmen on the Lake Erie & Western railroad, between Findlay and Fostoria are greatly disturbed over what they claim is the ghost of a dead freight conductor, who was killed one night last November, about eight miles east of the former city, by his train breaking into two sections, and then coming together suddenly throwing the conductor from the car on which he was standing to the track below, where he was beheaded by the merciless wheels before the train could be controlled. This accident occurred near the village of Arcadia, at a point where dense woods almost form an arch above the track; and here it is that the ghost of Jimmie Welsh, the mutilated conductor makes its appearance nearly every night, as the midnight passenger train from Sandusky going west reaches the spot where he met his fate on that gloomy, autumnal night less than three months ago. The engineer and other officers of the train assert that scarcely a night passes but what a headless apparition can be seen coming out of these woods, as the train nears the scene of the accident, carrying in its bloodless hand, something that looks like a lantern, which it waves backward and forward in a measureless sort of a manner as though searching for some lost object. The train men have no sort of doubt but what it is the ghost of Jimmie Welsh, hunting for its lost head. The phantom is plainly visible until the engine with a scream of terror, voicing the feelings of the engineer, endeavors to escape from the horrible sight, then it turns, and walking into the woods slowly fades away into a blue mist. Two crews have already abandoned this road on account of the ghostly vision and have been transferred to other divisions of the road: and the present engineer in charge of the train was so badly frightened one night that it was with great difficulty he was persuaded to remain on his engine until relieved at Lima. He said he would not make the run again for all the money Senator Calvin S. Brice, the president of the road, possessed. The conductor and brakemen on this train confirmed the engineer's story and said they saw the ghost nearly every night, always seemingly engaged in the hopeless task of hunting for its head. On bright moonlight nights the apparition is not so plainly outlined as when the nights are dark and rainy, as has been the rule the past month. On such occasions the phantom conductor comes out clear and distinct having all the resemblance of a man minus his head, while the lantern in his hand gives out a fitful, uncanny sort of illumination that freezes the blood in the veins of the boldest railroader on the line. No other train is annoyed by this ghostly form, but this is explained by the fact that no other train passes the spot where Jimmie Welsh was killed, at the time of night when he was decapitated by the wheels of his car. The mater has thoroughly alarmed the employees of the road, and unless the spirit of the dead conductor is appeased in some way it will be difficult to get men to make the midnight run between Sandusky and Lima. Leora