One of the most deplorable casualties ever known in this region occurred on Monday last. A switch engine on the New York and Erie railroad, while crossing a road near the Dunkirk Station, ran against a sleigh occupied by Mr. Janes, of Sheridan, and his wife. The latter jumped to the track immediately in front of the engine, and was instantly crushed beneath it. Mr. Janes escaped harm, but on seeing his wife thus mangled, leaped from his sleigh exclaiming “You have killed my wife!” and fell to the earth dead. – Buffalo Commercial
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, February 18, 1862, p. 2
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