Train - Pedestrian Accident - 1900

 Train-Pedestrian Accident

 

Last Saturday train 18 which leaves Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] at 11:55 a.m. struck an unknown man about a mile and a half east of the village.  The train was stopped and the crew went back to find the man dead.  He was walking east on the east-bound track and at the same time a train was going west on the other track, the noise of which is supposed to have prevented his hearing the approaching train from behind.  The remains were brought to this village on a hand car and placed in charge of Undertaker Erwin Ramsdell & Son.  There was nothing on the person of the unfortunate man to disclose his identity, although a small time book was found in his pocket in which was written the address 175 Elizabeth street, New York.  He was supposed to be an Italian aged about 50 years.  He was bruised in the back and one arm was broken.  Coroner E.A. Goodsell of Afton viewed the remains Saturday afternoon and he deemed no inquest encessary.  The man was buried in Green Lawn Cemetery [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY] Sunday afternoon.  Since the above was in type it has been learned that the man's name was Loiaco Iachino and that he had worked on the railroad near Windsor [Broome Co., NY]  [Afton Enterprise, Oct. 18, 1900]