Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
May 25, 1891
They Need Watching
Negaunee.-
The run through the Jackson location is a trying one to the
employes on the trains of both the C&NW and DSS&A roads because
of the boys who court danger by jumping on and off moving trains.
It has been a habit with the Jackson and. Cambria school boys
for a number of years past to ride to and from school on the ore
trains. The attention of the authorities was called to the matter
a few years ago when two young lads were horribly manglad under
the wheels of moving trains in one month, and the practice was en-
tirely stopped for a time. But the boys have resumed the dangerous
practice this summer, and there will be more fatalities if the
authorities do not put a stop to it at once. The boys are accus-
tomed to ride between the crossings on Cyr street to the diamond
crossing, where the trains slow up, half a mile above. It is not
unusual to see five or six boys waiting for a train to arrive at
either of the crossings, and they generally manage to get aboard
despite the efforts of the trainmen to keep them off. Numerous
complaints have been made at both depots by the train conductors
but the railway men are powerless to keep the boys away. The
authorities should move in the matter at once and make an example
of the boys caught jumping on moving trains.
