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Identifier	AB01a150.jpg
Title	Accident Report
Creators	Mining journal (Marquette, Mich.)
Subjects	Railroads ; Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company
Description	Transcription of newspaper article from the Mining journal (Marquette, Mich.), Sep. 2, 1887, regarding the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company.
Publishers	Peter White Public Library (Marquette, Mich.) ; Superiorland Library Cooperative (Marquette, Mich.)
Contributors	Perron, Wesley E.
Date-Original	9/2/1887
Date-Digital	11/10/2003
Type	Image/document
Format	jpg
FormatUse	170 KB
Source	Electronic reproduction of: Transcription of newspaper article from the Mining journal (Marquette, Mich.), Sep. 2, 1887.
Language	eng
Time-Period	1850-1889
Geographic	Marquette (Mich.)
Rights	Digital materials in the Upper Peninsula Digitization Center collections are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide. For further information contact the Superiorland Library Cooperative staff (updigit@uproc.lib.mi.us).
Transcript	Accident Report - September 2, l887. An accident occurred upon the Duluth South Shore and Atlantic Railway near Seney station on the 2nd day of September 1887 at 800 o'clock A.M. caused by: Brakeman C.D. Formby falling off train of ore cars while in motion, a short distance west of Seney station. No one saw him fall, he was found by trackmen. Head injured and one leg run over; brought him to the hospital at Marquette, where he died the next day at 130 P.M. Remains sent to his relatives at Hamilton, Ont. Casualties resulting from the above accident - 1 employe [* employee] killed. A. Watson, General Superintendent.

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