This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0AC.2ACI/2653 Message Board Post: Sept 12, 1894 Bangor Daily Whig and Courier (Bangor, Maine) Instantly Killed While Attempting to Cross a Railroad Track Whitehall, NY, Sept 11 - Mr. and Mrs. Orson Higgins of Benson, Vt., where instantly killed while attempting to drive across the railroad tracks ahead of the express train at Putnam, NY, this morning. Mary Manley, a little girl, also an occupant of the carriage, was fatally injured. Sept 12, 1894 Delphos Daily Herald (Delphos, Ohio) Attempted to Cross the Track Whitehall, NY, Sept 12 - While attempting to cross the track ahead of the northbound express train at Putnam, NY, yesterday, Mr. and Mrs. Orson Higgins of Benson, Vt., were instantly killed and a little girl, Mary Manley, was fatally injured. (In 1900 a ten-year-old named Mary Manley, daughter of Horace Manley, was living in Benson. Perhaps Mary survived.)