Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
August 25, 1888
Saturday
A Bad Accident
At 6:26 o'clock Thursday morning, Niles Johnson, a miner who was employed at the Cleveland, was returning home from his work, and was walking along the South Shore track in the eastern part of the city. The track at the point where he was walking is double. Johnson saw a switch engine approaching and stepped off the track on which the engine was coming but in doing so got on another track in which another engine was coming from the other direction. Before a warning could be given he was struck by the engine. His left foot was cut off and he also sustained injuires [*injuries] about his head and hands.
He was taken to the hospital, where the stump was amputated and everything done to alleviate his pain. At a late hour last night the man was alive, but it is considered doubtful if he will recover.
